Jug1212

June 2021

Hello Jug1212. 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:Jug1212. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Jug1212|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. TigerScientist Chat > contribs 20:06, 3 June 2021 (UTC)

Hi Tiger! I am not being compensated for my edits. What I did was I copied the exact statement from the SPA website which was basically an ad, but when I tried to preview it I hit Publish. This is only one of my first few articles I edited. Is there something I have to do to state I am not being compensated? Sorry. Josh (is this tilde thing right?) Jug1212 (talk) 20:42, 3 June 2021 (UTC)

Jug1212 it is completely normal for new editors. This was just a template so I believe you are not getting paid, but I just want you to know that the articles are in a promotional tone. Next time, don't add things that directly promote the topic. Try to turn the info neutral. WP:NPOVT will help TigerScientist Chat > contribs 22:35, 3 June 2021 (UTC)

TigerScientist Thank you for all your help and advice! It has been useful Jug1212 (talk) 13:45, 4 June 2021 (UTC)

Jug1212 Please refer to neutral point of view regarding your recent edits to Wikipedia page Robert Finke including but not limited to self-promotion and possible undisclosed financial compensation stake.

CSF FOOTBALL.jpg

Hello Jug1212, you uploaded CSF FOOTBALL.jpg to commons and indicate it is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International. When I look at the source, School Blog, the webpage is copyrighted. I don't see where your CCA Share Alike licensing comes from. Are you authorized to license reuse of the schools photographs? Gab4gab (talk) 15:55, 4 June 2021 (UTC)

In related edits you added details to Canterbury School (St. Petersburg, Florida) about a former student which I have removed. In school article we generally don't mention non-notable (those who aren't notable enough for a separate biography article) students or former students. Athletic accomplishments below state championships aren't considered encyclopedic. There is some school article advice at WP:WPSCH/AG that you might find useful. I appreciate you efforts to improve Wikipedia. Sorry I've had to interfere with you early contributions. Gab4gab (talk) 16:14, 4 June 2021 (UTC)

Bobby Finke Article

Jug1212 Please refer to neutral point of view regarding your recent edits to Wikipedia page Robert Finke including but not limited to self-promotion and possible undisclosed financial compensation stake.