CRHSwebmaster
September 2018
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Hello CRHSwebmaster. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, such as the edit you made to Cedar Ridge High School (North Carolina), and that 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 egregious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to Black hat SEO.
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, and if it does not, 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:CRHSwebmaster. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=CRHSwebmaster|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, please do not edit further until you answer this message. John from Idegon (talk) 01:43, 21 September 2018 (UTC)
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I guess I answer here. I am not sure. I am an employee of Cedar Ridge High School and one of my duties is to keep web information up to date. If this means I have to put paid I can do that but it is not extra, this is one of my duties as the Digital Learning Coach. Josh MillerCRHSwebmaster (talk) 12:34, 21 September 2018 (UTC)
You still have not responded or taken action to the inquiry regarding your appearance as an undisclosed paid editor. If you make any additional edits without complying you may be blocked from editing. John from Idegon (talk) 14:13, 21 September 2018 (UTC)
- You are adding inappropriate unsourced material. Be 100% clear on this... although, with restrictions, you will be allowed to contribute to Wikipedia (and you have not come close to complying with even the basic identity requirements yet), all your contributions will be closely scrutinized and all must conform to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. The article you are editing is not for the school and the information in it should not come from the school. Every change you make must have a reliable secondary source. And you must have the competency to add the information correctly. We do not care what the school wants on the article...it couldn't be more irrelevant. The article you are attempting to edit is about the school and like every other article in this encyclopedia (or any other encyclopedia), should consist entirely of information summarized from what others have written about the school in reliable secondary sources. John from Idegon (talk) 14:23, 21 September 2018 (UTC)
Okay, I apologise, I thought primary sources would be better than secondary sources, as I teach my students when researching. I will try and find other sources of information that might be as up to date as the data from the school district. I will look through wikipages for information on how to do what I am supposed to do. Again, my apologies. CRHSwebmaster (talk) 14:32, 21 September 2018 (UTC)
You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you remove or blank page content or templates from Wikipedia, as you did at Cedar Ridge High School (North Carolina). John from Idegon (talk) 14:40, 21 September 2018 (UTC)
I am reviewing the help pages now and I see where I went wrong. I was adding the most up to date information, according to me, however nobody could verify that information since I was using a closed system to gather that information. I am looking into other sources that can be verified. Again I apologise for not knowing the ins and outs...I should have done what I always tell my students....read the directions first! CRHSwebmaster (talk) 15:16, 21 September 2018 (UTC)
- You don't need to research. The source for enrollment that currently is on the article is the most appropriate source. If the data in the article is not up to date with the source, simply update it from the source. Please try to understand this...what your work assignment is here is secondary. If it sounds like I've got a bit of an attitude with you here, your assessment is correct. The payroll at English Wikipedia is 0. Everyone that edits Wikipedia does so as a volunteer. So along comes someone like you, who is getting paid by someone else to advance their agenda whether out of ignorance or malice. I or someone else like me has to stop doing what we chose to do here and deal with you....
- Best practice going forward for you is to make an edit request on the article talk page using the prescribed form for paid editors for any changes you want. Other than reverting obvious vandalism (addition of random characters, changing the principal's name to Mr. Poopyhead, etc), you shouldn't directly edit the article at all. If this does not meet with your superior's expectations, well, you're a teacher; educate them. John from Idegon (talk) 15:59, 21 September 2018 (UTC)
Thank you for being patient with me and I understand your frustration with me. Apologies. I will follow your instructions about putting up requests for changes. Thank you again.
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