User talk:MrTeleportal

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Hello, WokingCollege2020, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited was Woking College, which appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article. Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

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January 2023

Hello WokingCollege2020. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Woking 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:WokingCollege2020. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=WokingCollege2020|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. SovalValtos (talk) 11:18, 9 January 2023 (UTC)

Hi

Thanks for this. My name is Neal Leggett I deal with the social media here at Woking College. Woking College is a 6th form College based in the UK and is not a profit making organisation. My email is nle@woking.ac.uk. Thanks Neal Woking College. WokingCollege2020 (talk) 14:11, 9 January 2023 (UTC)

Hi Can you advise if my edits will go live. I have not heard from you and it looks like it has reverted to the original text. Thanks Neal WokingCollege2020 (talk) 09:44, 11 January 2023 (UTC)

First, you must change your username immediately to be more individualistic(your real name is not required and even discouraged), you may request this at Special:GlobalRenameRequest or WP:CHUS. Second, you must make the Terms of Use required paid editing disclosure on your new user page. Regarding your edit itself, you should avoid directly editing the article about your school in most cases, instead please make formal edit requests(click for instructions) on the article talk page, Talk:Woking College. 331dot (talk) 09:48, 11 January 2023 (UTC)

Thanks. Apologise but I don't change much here so it is a learninf curve. Change user name - more individualistic ... do you mean something that does not have Woking College in the name? and not include my real name. I will read up on the additional advice you have given me. Thanks Neal WokingCollege2020 (talk) 09:55, 11 January 2023 (UTC)

Using your real name is discouraged for your personal security, but you may use it if you wish. If you want the name of the college as part of your username, such as "JohnDoe of Woking College", that is permitted. We just need something that indicates this account is used by a specific individual who gives no one else access. 331dot (talk) 10:01, 11 January 2023 (UTC)

OK I have sent the request for the user name MrTeleportal Thanks N WokingCollege2020 (talk) 10:02, 11 January 2023 (UTC)

I am pleased to see you have changed your user name. You were given the link above to Wikipedia:Conflict of interest. If you were now to read the article it might help you understand that you may have a conflict of interest in editing the Woking College article even if you are not being paid as a teacher or technician. The Wikipedia:Teahouse is a useful place for new editors to get help when needed. Best wishes.SovalValtos (talk) 03:42, 12 January 2023 (UTC)