Nate at SEMORedhawks

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

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December 2020

Hello SEMORedhawks. The nature of your edits 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 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 serious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat search-engine optimization.

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. If the article does not exist, paid advocates are extremely 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:SEMORedhawks. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=SEMORedhawks|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.   — Jeff G. ツ 23:18, 16 December 2020 (UTC)

@Jeff Thanks Jeff. Obviously I'm new here, just trying to figure this out! I've added the disclosure to my user page. Certainly don't intend to make any edits except to make sure information is accurate. I'll make sure to simply suggest any future edits using the Talk page from now on. I saw your responses regarding my question in the Commons Help Desk. This whole thing was simply to make sure the correct images were representing our page. Curious --- how is it that other university logos are uploaded on Wiki pages and are accurate? Just trying to make sure there is accurate information but also play by the rules! The logo is published on our website and social media, so I will attempt the OTRS submission that you suggested. Thanks so much for your patience with me and your help! (Hopefully I even did this response correctly...) SEMORedhawks (talk) 15:00, 17 December 2020 (UTC)

You're welcome. Also, please see WP:THREAD and WP:INDENT.   — Jeff G. ツ 02:22, 22 December 2020 (UTC)

Your username

Welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your username, "SEMORedhawks", may not comply with our username policy. Please note that you may not use a username that represents the name of a company, group, organization, product, service, or website. Examples of usernames that are not allowed include "XYZ Company", "MyWidgetsUSA.com", and "Foobar Museum of Art". However, you are permitted to use a username that contains such a name if it identifies you individually, such as "Sara Smith at XYZ Company", "Mark at WidgetsUSA", or "FoobarFan87".

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@Drm310 Thank you, I have submitted the username request. --SEMORedhawks (talk) 22:38, 17 December 2020 (UTC)

Thank you. You are now in full compliance with the username and paid editing policies. --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 15:12, 18 December 2020 (UTC)

Talk page posts

Hi, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. Your recent talk page comments on Talk:Southeast Missouri State Redhawks were not added to the bottom of the page. New discussion page messages and topics should always be added to the bottom. Your message may have been moved. In the future you can use the "Add topic" link in the top right. For more details see the talk page guidelines. Thank you. Drm310 🍁 (talk) 15:13, 18 December 2020 (UTC)

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