Rliudzius

Paid editing

Hello Rliudzius. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to University of Saint Joseph (Connecticut), gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, but 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 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. Undisclosed paid advocacy is prohibited by our policies on neutral point of view and what Wikipedia is not, and is an especially serious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat search-engine optimization.

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:Rliudzius. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Rliudzius|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. --Hammersoft (talk) 19:14, 23 October 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for making your paid contributions disclosure. This is quite important. As per the above, you are discouraged from making direct edits to University of Saint Joseph (Connecticut), and instead should be making recommendations about changes to the article at Talk:University of Saint Joseph (Connecticut). Also, please carefully review our guideline on conflict of interest. If you have questions, let me know. Thanks, --Hammersoft (talk) 19:27, 23 October 2024 (UTC)

Above, you were discouraged from directly making edits to University of Saint Joseph (Connecticut). Yet, you continue to edit the article. Why? --Hammersoft (talk) 19:36, 23 October 2024 (UTC)

i just added citations to the information i added earlier. Rliudzius (talk) 19:37, 23 October 2024 (UTC)

Yes, you did...but you also re-added information directly copy/pasted from https://www.usjbluejays.com/information/about which had already once been removed for violating copyright. --Hammersoft (talk) 19:38, 23 October 2024 (UTC)

Copyright violations

Your edit to University of Saint Joseph (Connecticut) has been removed in whole or in part, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for information on how to contribute your work appropriately. For legal reasons, Wikipedia strictly cannot host copyrighted text or images from print media or digital platforms without an appropriate and verifiable license. Contributions infringing on copyright will be removed. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images—you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously, and persistent violators of our copyright policy will be blocked from editing. See Wikipedia:Copying text from other sources for more information.

In particular, the Athletics section you added was directly copy/pasted from https://www.usjbluejays.com/information/about. Failing presentation of proof that this material is available under a free license, we can't use it. --Hammersoft (talk) 19:22, 23 October 2024 (UTC)

And again you introduced copyright violating content taken from https://www.usjbluejays.com/information/about. If you persist in violating copyright, you will be blocked from editing. --Hammersoft (talk) 19:37, 23 October 2024 (UTC)

okay, im going to rewrite the athletics blurb in my own words and add it back in with a citation and then i will stop editing the page. Rliudzius (talk) 19:41, 23 October 2024 (UTC)

No, as noted above you should be posting to the talk page of the article, not directly making changes to the article due to your conflict of interest. Please stop. --Hammersoft (talk) 19:42, 23 October 2024 (UTC)