User talk:Callynisd

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Hello, Callynisd. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article International School of Denver, you may have a conflict of interest. People with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, see the conflict of interest guideline and frequently asked questions for organizations. In particular, please:

avoid editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, its competitors, or projects and products you or they are involved with;
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Please familiarize yourself with relevant policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, sourcing, and autobiographies. Thank you. --Orange Mike | Talk 19:09, 4 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Callynisd. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have a financial stake in promoting a topic, such as the edit you made to International School of Denver. 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 egregious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a black hat practice.

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, and if it does not, 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, 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:Callynisd. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Callynisd|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. If you are being compensated, please provide the required disclosure. In either case, please do not edit further until you answer this message. --Orange Mike | Talk 19:09, 4 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Orange Mike - thank you for making the change. I do work for the International School of Denver and was asked to simply update the name and the current Head of School. I have not made other major edits but in the future if I have a change I will request it on the talk page. One more thing - could we add the current website for the school, which is www.isdenver.org? Thank you -- Callynisd (talk) 20:26, 4 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]