Bayoclam
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July 2020 edit
Hello, I'm Magnolia677. I noticed that you added or changed content in an article, United States Border Patrol, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so. You can have a look at the tutorial on citing sources. If you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Magnolia677 (talk) 21:59, 11 July 2020 (UTC)
Hello Bayoclam. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to United States Border Patrol, 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 SEO.
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:Bayoclam. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Bayoclam|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. Magnolia677 (talk) 18:26, 21 July 2020 (UTC)
Although I am a government employee, I am neither being compensated for my edits (I'm not the clock) nor are they part of my duties. I have placed them there because I have knowledge to share, a passion on the subject and believed that Wikipedia is a good medium. My first edits on the page were in 2006 and 2007. Nevertheless, the difficulty in updating this page has caused me to think differently of Wikipedia as both a source of information and as an organization wishing to publish accurate information. Bayoclam (talk) 18:48, 21 July 2020 (UTC)
Magnolia677, I am disengaging. Although I provided an updated source document to update the page, you deleted it. Even though my changes were neutral and minor to pay grades, you deleted them. If I a bias was detected in my edits, I could understand. But your application of the rules are severe to the point that I am going to close my account to that extent that I am able and never donate to Wikipedia again. My interactions with you earlier this month was frustrating but understandable. My interactions with you today has caused my to lose confidence in Wikipedia and has disappointed me to the point that I will never donate my personal time to improve any article. Good job. Bayoclam (talk) 21:14, 21 July 2020 (UTC)