Tena1Cook

July 2022

Hello Tena1Cook. 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:Tena1Cook. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Tena1Cook|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. ElKevbo (talk) 21:55, 11 July 2022 (UTC)

Hello ElKevbo. I apologize for missing your message. I am an employee of Chadron State College and have been tasked with keeping our Wikipedia page updated. My predecessor did this. I have read through the article you sent me and reviewed the Paid template. I am unclear how to fill out the template and where to post it when it is complete. Hopefully, it is possible to do my job for Chadron State College without violating any Wikipedia rules.Thank you for any further guidance. Tena Cook Tena1Cook (talk) 18:42, 5 July 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply! I added the template to your User page.

With respect to your employer's article(s): I strongly recommend that you consider confining most of your edits to the article's Talk page. Most editors are generally okay with employees making edits that are indisputably noncontroversial (e.g., updating information that's already in the article, correcting typographical errors) but most other edits should be done by editors who aren't connected to the subject. If you ever post a request or suggestion to the article's Talk page and you don't get a timely response, you're welcome to leave a polite note at WT:UNI where more editors might see it. ElKevbo (talk) 02:10, 6 July 2023 (UTC)

Thank you. I really appreciate you adding the template and your guidance. We have a new president so that is the item I need to change.

I will try to access and become familiar with the CSC Talk page Last night, I checked with my predecessor and he said he was not able to make edits to the page. Since I had been asked to make changes, I'd mistakenly assumed that he had done the same. Tena1Cook (talk) 13:57, 6 July 2023 (UTC)