Mrs.sbb

July 2023

Hello, I'm Trey Maturin. I wanted to let you know that one or more external links you added to New York City College of Technology have been removed because they seemed to be inappropriate for an encyclopedia. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page, or take a look at our guidelines about links. Thank you. — Trey Maturin™ 16:01, 19 July 2023 (UTC)

I work at City Tech in the Dean's office of Arts and sciences and was asked to make these edits and you or whoever keeps taking the edits down. 24.187.24.233 (talk) 16:35, 19 July 2023 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Mrs.sbb. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page New York City College of Technology, 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 organizations 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. — Trey Maturin™ 16:47, 19 July 2023 (UTC)

For clarification I am not allowed to make changes because I work for City Tech? Or I can make the edits but not put links? I am not doing this to promote or advertise however the information on the Wikipedia page is outdated and we would like them to be updated Mrs.sbb (talk) 17:00, 19 July 2023 (UTC)

Your best bet is to go to the talk page of any article that you have a conflict of interest in that you feel is wrong or out of date. Copy the following (as you see it here, not how you see it after clicking 'Edit')

 

{{edit COI}}

* Specific text to be added or removed

* Reason for the change

* References supporting change (a webpage address, for instance)

~~~~

 

then paste that into a new section on the talk page of the article in question. Overwrite the text after the * with your own text.

The {{edit COI}} bit attracts attention that you need assistance and someone else will evaluate the edit, ask for further information if required, then make the edit for you.

This is not just to protect Wikipedia. This also protects your organisation from accusations that you're trying to advertise for free in a place run on charitable donations (a PR nightmare) and from people who might seek to damage your organisation's reputation by adding falsehoods. — Trey Maturin™ 17:11, 19 July 2023 (UTC)

okay thank you for the information Trey Mrs.sbb (talk) 17:15, 19 July 2023 (UTC)