User talk:Dgonzal8nscc

Connection with North Shore Community College?

Do you have a connection with North Shore Community College? ElKevbo (talk) 22:20, 3 December 2024 (UTC)

Yes. I work for the college marketing department and am updating our information. Thanks. Dgonzal8nscc (talk) 13:58, 4 December 2024 (UTC)

Hello Dgonzal8nscc. You have an financial stake in promoting a topic. Paid advocacy is a category of conflict of interest (COI) editing that involves being employed (or being compensated in any way) by a person, group, company or organization to promote their interests. Paid advocacy on Wikipedia must be disclosed even if you have not specifically been asked to edit Wikipedia.

Paid advocates are 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 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:Dgonzal8nscc. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Dgonzal8nscc|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. ElKevbo (talk) 23:16, 4 December 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for the information ElKevbo. Dgonzal8nscc (talk) 12:34, 5 December 2024 (UTC)

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