User talk:Peterwoodphsc

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Managing a conflict of interest[edit]

Hello, Peterwoodphsc. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Princes Hill Secondary College, 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 or competitors;
propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the {{request edit}} 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);
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. Longhair\^talk 10:24, 12 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

August 2021[edit]

Hello Peterwoodphsc. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Princes Hill Secondary College, 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:Peterwoodphsc. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Peterwoodphsc|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. Longhair\^talk 10:25, 12 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Longhair, I have no financial stake in any edits I make on Wikipedia. I am a 30 year+ teacher at the school whose page I have edited. I'm keen to establish a trust relationship with WP as I think the whole page needs a serious rewrite, as much of the 'information' is either out of date or irrelevant and I feel I'm well placed to do that. Regards from one with no hair! Peterwoodphsc (talk) 10:42, 12 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hello and thank you for your reply. As an employee of Princes Hill Secondary College you have a conflict of interest with the Wikipedia article on this topic, and also fall under the criteria of a paid editor (you do not have to be specifically paid to edit Wikipedia for this to apply; financial compensation in any way via the organisation you are editing the article on behalf of is also considered as paid editing).

You will be required to disclose this paid editing status by making a declaration at your userpage. Instructions for doing so are linked above in my original messages left at your talk page. Further, as a conflict of interest with this topic exists, it is recommended that you no longer edit the Princes Hill Secondary College article directly, but propose changes to the article via the article talk page using edit requests. I hope this helps explain and if you have any further questions you can reply here and I'll aim to assist you further with any of the above. -- Longhair\^talk 10:50, 12 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

January 2024[edit]

Hello. Your recent edit to Princes Hill Secondary College appears to have added the name of a non-notable entity to a list that normally includes only notable entries. In general, a person, organization or product added to a list should have a pre-existing article before being added to most lists. If you wish to create such an article, please first confirm that the subject qualifies for a separate, stand-alone article according to Wikipedia's notability guideline. Thank you. Denisarona (talk) 09:42, 30 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]