ShawnCurtin

February 2019

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at Bay de Noc Community College. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Repeated vandalism may result in the loss of editing privileges. Thank you. Jebcubed (talk) 14:23, 7 February 2019 (UTC)

Hello, ShawnCurtin. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, 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, company, organization or competitors;
• propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (see the {{request edit}} template);
• disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see WP:DISCLOSE);
• avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see WP:SPAM);
• do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you must 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 WP:PAID).

Also please note that editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. ElKevbo (talk) 16:59, 8 February 2019 (UTC)

Thanks ElKevbo. I'm new to editing Wikipedia and its intricacies. I want to obey the rules. I'm an employee of Bay de Noc Community College and want to contribute to the article in the most unbiased and factual way possible. What steps do I need to take in order to contribute to this article and be recognized as a legitimate editor by the Wikipedia community? Should I place a {{connected contributor (paid)}} at the top of this talk page? Please advise. ShawnCurtin (talk) 13:57, 11 February 2019 (UTC)

Shawn, I think that placing that template at the top of the relevant article Talk page(s) and identifying your employer in your User page would be very helpful!

I recommend that you make requests and recommendations for edits to the article in its Talk page and let other editors make the edits to the article. That, coupled with a clear notice that you may have a conflict of interest, is the most straight forward way to handle a potential COI. ElKevbo (talk) 16:40, 11 February 2019 (UTC)

The material you added was copied directly from the school website, and thus was a violation of Wikipedia's copyright policy. Please don't add copyright material to Wikipedia. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 18:02, 9 February 2019 (UTC)

Thanks Diannaa. I'm new to editing Wikipedia and its intricacies. I want to obey the rules. Would I be able to use this content if I applied a Creative Commons CC BY license to the webpage? Please advise. ShawnCurtin (talk) 13:57, 11 February 2019 (UTC)

(I'm obviously not Diannaa but I can offer my two cents while I'm here replying to the question above. I'm sure that she'll correct anything I get wrong or offer better advice if she has any!)

If you hold the copyright to the material and you can release it under an appropriate CC license then that would certainly mean that you - and anyone else - could use the content here (as long as we comply with the license you've selected). Editing the webpage or text in question to indicate that it has been released under an appropriate license would be one way to approach this. I think that other editors also use [[WP:CONSENT|this process] to notify Wikipedia that their material is appropriately licensed for reuse. ElKevbo (talk) 16:40, 11 February 2019 (UTC)