LeslieReneeVargas
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Happy editing! Jauerbackdude?/dude. 17:16, 10 February 2022 (UTC)
February 2022 edit
Hello LeslieReneeVargas. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, but you have not complied with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. Paid advocacy is a category of conflict of interest (COI) editing that involves being compensated by a person, group, company or organization to use Wikipedia to promote their interests. Undisclosed paid advocacy is prohibited by our policies on neutral point of view and what Wikipedia is not, and is an especially serious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat search-engine optimization.
Paid advocates are very strongly discouraged from direct article editing, and should instead propose changes on the talk page of the article in question if an article exists. If the article does not exist, paid advocates are extremely strongly discouraged from attempting to write an article at all. At best, any proposed article creation should be submitted through the articles for creation process, rather than directly.
Regardless, if you are receiving or expect to receive compensation for your edits, broadly construed, you are required by the Wikimedia Terms of Use to disclose your employer, client and affiliation. You can post such a mandatory disclosure to your user page at User:LeslieReneeVargas. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=LeslieReneeVargas|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}. If I am mistaken – you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits – please state that in response to this message. Otherwise, please provide the required disclosure. In either case, do not edit further until you answer this message. 331dot (talk) 23:35, 9 February 2022 (UTC)
Hello I am not familiar enough with wiki to know how to respond to you outside of this page. No I am not being paid to make any edits. We (Norco College) noticed the logo was incorrect on our wiki page and I have been trying to have someone help us fix. I was assigned to reach out to wiki and have our correct logo updated. Originally this person (pasted below) helped me but we need the visual mark logo so it matches or webpages. Hope this helps. Again I am not sure if you will see this but I do hope so.
TSventon mentioned you on Wikipedia:Help desk in "Norco College Logo". LeslieReneeVargas, thank you for letting us know. I have uploaded the logo using Wikipedia:Upload/Uploadtext/en-nonfree-logo and updated the article. View mention TSventon View changes
- Your edits seem to suggest that you are employed by the college and that editing could plausibly fall within your job duties; in one you say you are the "District Public Affairs Officer"; if so, you are a paid editor and must make the required disclosure. You do not have to be specifically paid to edit or specifically directed to edit. 331dot (talk) 00:19, 10 February 2022 (UTC)
- Even if you are not paid to edit, you still have a conflict of interest – it isn't a bad thing, and in fact editors with conflicts of interest can be incredibly useful for developing articles, but we have these policies in place to prevent Wikipedia being used for advertising. These are the policies set up by Wikipedia, and the paid editing one is further set up by the Wikimedia Foundation (the organization that runs Wikipedia), so if you're being paid for job duties, you have to disclose it per Wikipedia's terms of use. Once again – it's not a bad thing, and thank you for attempting to improve the article! Skarmory (talk • contribs) 06:02, 10 February 2022 (UTC)