User talk:Socommteam

Recent edits to SUNY Orange

Hello, and thank you for your recent contributions. While the content of your edits may be true, I have removed it because its depth or nature of detail are not consistent with our objectives as an encyclopedia. I recognize that your edit was made in good faith and hope you will familiarize yourself with what Wikipedia is not so we may collaborate in the future. Thank you! Epicgenius (talk) 18:56, 27 February 2014 (UTC)

Re: email

Sure, feel free to revert my edit, but please provide some reliable sources. That's basically the only reason why I undid your edit. Thanks, Epicgenius (talk) 19:24, 27 February 2014 (UTC)

July 2022

Hello Socommteam. 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:Socommteam. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Socommteam|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. PRAXIDICAE🌈 15:56, 8 July 2022 (UTC)

Hi Praxidicae, thank you for letting me know. I did not realize this was a requirement. I work at the College and have been updating factual information with references only. I understand the requirements are to stop editors trying to marketing through wikipedia. Would I be able to make factual edits in the future? (For example, if a new location opens, could I make the edit to add that campus?) Thank you in advance! Socommteam (talk) 16:33, 8 July 2022 (UTC)

You cannot edit articles directly - you must disclose - this is not optional, you can however request changes on the talk page. How many people use this account or have access to it's password? PRAXIDICAE🌈 16:36, 8 July 2022 (UTC)

Just myself. Socommteam (talk) 16:39, 8 July 2022 (UTC)

Question on the statement "you cannot edit articles directly" - as far as I can see on the Wiki help pages, paid editors are discouraged, but not forbidden to make edits. Is there something you can point me to that says that someone paid who is disclosing that they are paid is forbidden from editing? Socommteam (talk) 17:50, 11 July 2022 (UTC)