User talk:MikeyFromUCTV

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February 2018

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page UCTV (University of Connecticut) has been reverted.
Your edit here to UCTV (University of Connecticut) was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove links which are discouraged per our external links guideline. The external link(s) you added or changed (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7SGBchTgcGrQh_YrERQi2padI7LKrLbp/, https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7SGBchTgcGqPWT6Xq-6-Cyi6JlVRYlwg/) is/are on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. If the external link you inserted or changed was to a media file (e.g. a sound or video file) on an external server, then note that linking to such files may be subject to Wikipedia's copyright policy, as well as other parts of our external links guideline. If the information you linked to is indeed in violation of copyright, then such information should not be linked to. Please consider using our upload facility to upload a suitable media file, or consider linking to the original.
If you were trying to insert an external link that does comply with our policies and guidelines, then please accept my creator's apologies and feel free to undo the bot's revert. However, if the link does not comply with our policies and guidelines, but your edit included other, constructive, changes to the article, feel free to make those changes again without re-adding the link. Please read Wikipedia's external links guideline for more information, and consult my list of frequently-reverted sites. For more information about me, see my FAQ page. Thanks! --XLinkBot (talk) 19:27, 6 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, UCTVOpsAssistant. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the article UCTV (University of Connecticut), you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. Editing for the purpose of advertising or promotion is not permitted. 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 COI 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 for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID). Thank you. —C.Fred (talk) 20:07, 6 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, I am the Operations Assistant for UCTV and one of my jobs was to update our long neglected Wikipedia page. The main things I did was update our board of directors to the current people, change the website linked to our current one and add descriptions for our series that have been added or modified. I noticed all of my edits were reverted and I was told it was because I have a conflict of interest. I get how that could be concerning but the nature of things I'm adding are just updates to make the page relevant and populated with current information and not promotional material. What can I do to get this page updated if I can't do it myself? UCTVOpsAssistant (talk) 20:28, 6 February 2018 (UTC) (copied here from User talk:C.Fred)[reply]

First off, if you are changing the Wikipedia article for anything other than credit hours, you are a paid editor and need to disclose that.

Second, let's look at the edits. A full list of the board of directors is inappropriate for an encyclopedia article. If there were any notable board members, they could be mentioned elsewhere in the prose. The website has been updated in both places in the article. The program list is a mess—personally, if you can help clean that up and keep it neutral, I say you should go for it, as long as the tone doesn't get promotional.

Third, your account should really represent you as a person. The problem with your current username is that it represents a role; role accounts and accounts in the name of an organization are discouraged per the WP:Username policy. An account name that represents a person, such as Jonathan at UCTV, would be in compliance with the username policy and would make clear the conflict of interest. (And the choice of that first name was based on the UConn mascot and intended as an example.)

Finally, when in doubt, ask for help. We aren't really out to lower the boom on well-intentioned editors who have conflicts of interest. However, the Wikimedia Foundation put policies in place that are hard to set aside, so we have to make sure they're complied with. In the long run, it helps everybody: administrators, neutral editors, editors with COIs, and readers. —C.Fred (talk) 20:39, 6 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for getting back to me. This is my first time editing a wiki page and didn't know I had to disclose my COI so I apologize. The board of directors thing makes sense so sorry for adding it back. Thank you for updating the website. As for the program list I agree it's a mess. I plan on editing that to clean it up I need board approval first though. As for my username I will update that. To be clear an I allowed to update this page as long as I don't get promotional? UCTVOpsAssistant (talk) 20:57, 6 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I'm going to say yes, that I welcome your contributions to the page, so for please help out. At least for now. —C.Fred (talk) 20:59, 6 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

And regarding disclosure of COI: one of the few good things about the username you chose is that it acts as a disclosure of the COI. There are other ways to do it; if you were to change your username, I'd get the notification at Talk:UCTV (University of Connecticut) for the new name. —C.Fred (talk) 21:02, 6 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

On second thought, talk about the changes at the talk page first. Another user just removed those sections, saying they were "unreferenced and promotional". —C.Fred (talk) 21:08, 6 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

UCTV Page

Than you. I will try to remain non-promotional. It appears the majority of the article was removed, however. This seems totally unwarranted to just remove the majority of the article so I'm very confused. UCTVOpsAssistant (talk) 21:07, 6 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Your username

Welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your username, "UCTVOpsAssistant", may not meet Wikipedia's username policy because usernames which might be seen as representing a specific company, organization, group, etc. or might be seen as being shared among multiple people are not permitted per WP:ORGNAME and WP:ISU. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. As an alternative, you may ask for a change of username by completing this form, or you may simply create a new account for editing. Thank you. -- Marchjuly (talk) 22:09, 6 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]