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Happy editing! Marquardtika (talk) 20:42, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

February 2024

Please don't add text lists to articles as an image. It's unsearchable, inaccessible, unviewable on some browsers and against our Manual of Style. You're welcome to type the list out, preferably quoting a source for it. Thanks. 81.187.192.168 (talk) 18:24, 26 February 2024 (UTC)

Really, please stop adding this. 81.187.192.168 (talk) 18:27, 26 February 2024 (UTC)

I don’t mind that it’s out of your manual of style. I will continue to add it as an image. I am the Creative Director for this college and I would like it on our page. Thank you. Mainerlife (talk) 20:45, 26 February 2024 (UTC)

See MOS:TABLES for information about the markup you can use that might actually get the info to stick around. Also, please make sure it's referenced at least to https://athletics.thomas.edu/, if there's no more detailed page to link to. --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 20:53, 26 February 2024 (UTC)

Please stop. If you continue to use disruptive, inappropriate or hard-to-read formatting, you may be blocked from editing. There is a Wikipedia Manual of Style, and edits should not deliberately go against it without special reason. 81.187.192.168 (talk) 18:48, 26 February 2024 (UTC)

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you make disruptive edits to Wikipedia contrary to the Manual of Style. 81.187.192.168 (talk) 18:49, 26 February 2024 (UTC)

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you.81.187.192.168 (talk) 18:53, 26 February 2024 (UTC)

February 2024

Due to disruptive editing, you have been indefinitely blocked from editing Thomas College. You are free to make productive edit requests at Talk:Thomas College. Please read the Guide to appealing blocks. Cullen328 (talk) 19:11, 26 February 2024 (UTC)

I don't understand. I made edits per what I was instructed. I work at Thomas College and was trying to make the most sure the most accurate information was available, including photos and logos. Mainerlife (talk) 14:00, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

As an official at a college, presumably an intelligent person, you are expected to pay attention to and learn from what far more experienced Wikipedia editors and administrators are telling you. Text on Wikipedia is added as text, not images. Actual text can be searched, edited, updated and corrected. Images cannot. Adding an image of text over and over again is disruptive. More broadly, you have a conflict of interest and will not be permitted to control the article. Thomas College is an encyclopedia article about the college that summarizes what reliable sources independent of the college say about it. The article is not a marketing brochure controlled by the college. You have your own website and social media for that purpose. I told you that the proper place to discuss changes to that article is Talk: Thomas College. You have not yet done so. Instead, you are complaining at the Teahouse. You must make the Paid contributions disclosure immediately. This is mandatory and non-negotiable. Cullen328 (talk) 18:54, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Mainerlife. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Thomas College, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for article subjects for more information. We ask that you:

• avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization, clients, or competitors;
• propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the {{edit COI}} template);
• disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see Wikipedia:Conflict of interest § How to disclose a COI);
• avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam § External link spamming);
• do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. DMacks (talk) 22:25, 26 February 2024 (UTC)

I work at the college, I was just updating information as far as I know including logos and some photos I've taken. Mainerlife (talk) 13:59, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

If you continue without responding the issues with your editing, you may be permanently blocked from Wikipedia. That might not be in anyone's best interest. Please read carefully the above messages and try to address the problem. EdJohnston (talk) 17:09, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

I guess I don’t understand the licensing requirements. I am fully employed by the college and I am updating the logos on the Wikipedia were in keeping with our brand updates. The old ones are no longer accurate. Is there a way I can sign in as an administrator to the page? I am the ultimate authority on Thomas College brand information. Mainerlife (talk) 18:56, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

You might want to review Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials. Also, admins don't control the content here as such, and anyway, there's no way to become an admin on a single page. --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 19:05, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

Also, read WP:OWN. Nobody, not even you, owns a page/has an entitlement to it. The 🏎 Corvette 🏍 ZR1^{(The Garage)} 16:21, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

Paid editing

As previously advised, your edits give the impression you have a financial stake in promoting a topic, but you have not complied with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. You were asked to cease editing until you responded by either stating that you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits, or by complying with the mandatory requirements under the Wikimedia Terms of Use that you disclose your employer, client and affiliation. Again, you can post such a disclosure on your user page at User:Mainerlife, and the template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Mainerlife|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}. Please respond before making any other edits to Wikipedia. Theroadislong (talk) 08:08, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

Clarification

Hello. I've dropped by to hopefully clear up some confusion. You seem to be under the impression that Wikipedia articles can be updated by members of the organization, as if it were their own advertising page. I'm afraid that's incorrect. We are not a business listing site.

First, the page does not belong to you nor your organization. You cannot become an administrator of the page. In fact, we discourage people affiliated with an article's topic from editing the page directly, per our conflict of interest policy. You can make suggestions for edits on the article's Talk page, but you should not be editing the page directly.

Wikipedia is a repository of information backed by reliable, secondary sources. That means you cannot just post information you know, or which comes from your company's own advertising or promotional publications. Citations must be from unaffiliated publications, preferably those with a reputation for fact-checking and editorial oversight.

So my suggestion is you follow the advice above to declare your affiliation with the college on your userpage (using the template). Then take a little time to learn Wikipedia's policies & guidelines before suggesting edits on the article's Talk page. It'd be better if you edited other topics entirely before coming back to this, so you can better understand how things work here. — The Hand That Feeds You:^Bite 17:39, 29 February 2024 (UTC)