EunjuVT

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Hello, EunjuVT, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article. Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

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Hi EunjuVT. If you are, as stated in the descriptions of some of the files you've uploaded to Wikimedia Commons, and employee of Virginia Tech, then Wikipedia considers you to have a Wikipedia:Conflict of interest (COI) with respect to anything written about the university on Wikipedia. Please makes sure you familiarize yourself with content of the policy and guideline pages I've linked to above and make sure you follow them as closing as possible. Please pay special attention to Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure because this is one area where COI editors often find themselves having problems. Although theWikimedia Foundation (WMF) doesn't expressly prohibit COI editing, it does highly discourage it; the WMF does, however, consider undisclosed paid editing to be a violation of its wmf:Terms of Use and those who do so often find their accounts quickly blocked by a Wikipedia administrator. The best way for you to improve any articles related to the school would be to follow WP:COIADVICE, and propose the changes you feel need to be made on the relevant article talk page so that they can be reviewed by others. You should avoid directly editing articles yourself except in some fairly well-defined cases, but if you do you should make sure you clearly leave an edit summary explaining why the edit was necessary and clarifying your COI/PAID status. You also should understand that neither the university nor anyone associated with it has any claim of ownership or editorial control over any content written about it on Wikipedia as explained in Wikipedia:Ownership of content; so, anything edits you or anyone connected to the school makes to such content which aren't in accordance with relevant policies and guidelines are likely to be reverted by another editor.

If you've got any questions about any of the above, feel free to ask them below here, at the Wikipedia:Teahouse or at Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard. -- Marchjuly (talk) 22:44, 15 November 2019 (UTC)

Paid-contribution disclosure

Please make sure to read WP:PAID and properly declare your connection to VT per WP:COIPAYDISCLOSE. You need to do this per Wikipdedia's wmf:Terms of Use (see meta:Terms of use/FAQ on paid contributions without disclosure) otherwise you run the risk of being blocked by an administrator no matter how good your intentions or your edits are in trying to clean up the article. I suggest you do this asap before editing the article any further. Please understand I'm not trying to come down on you like a ton of bricks or scare you away from further editing, but please understand that undeclared paid contributions are one major concerns of the Wikipedia project; so, your best way to avoid any problems is to follow relevant policy and guidelines as closely as possible. -- Marchjuly (talk) 06:06, 25 November 2019 (UTC)