User talk:Mcobbases

July 2019

This is your only warning; if you use Wikipedia for soapboxing, promotion or advertising again, as you did at All Saints Episcopal School (Tyler, Texas), you may be blocked from editing without further notice. John from Idegon (talk) 00:53, 17 July 2019 (UTC)

Your edits to All Saints Episcopal School

I read your edits that John from Idegon reverted. Your changes weren't appropriate for an encyclopedia article, although they would be fine on a school brochure or a letter to the parents or your own personal website (which the Wikipedia article is not). For example, you wrote "The Outdoor Learning Center is an amazing space that leverages the beauty of our natural surroundings and offer hands-on, authentic learning that inspires wonder and curiosity in our students. The Outdoor Learning Center is a unique classroom that allows students to learn about science in a natural, experiential environment that supports teamwork, stewardship, empathy, and real world problem solving. Our students are loving the new space and have already taken on several projects enhancing their understanding of ecology and our role in the world. The new STEM and Robotics Zone is igniting passions for Science, Technology, Engineering and Math with our 5th-8th graders that they didn't even know they had!! (Exclamation marks? Two? Really?) I bolded all of the promotional-type content. That is not how encyclopedia articles are written.

You wrote "The new Chapel is a beautiful dedication to our spiritual pillar and beautiful place of worship for our school community." In a Wikipedia article, "we" and "our" means Wikipedia, not your school community.

It's possible that a small portion of what you wrote could be added to the article, if properly sourced, but it needs to be basic factual information; no fluff, no adjectives or adverbs, no exclamation points. No irrelevant content, such as how the Lausanne Learning Institute selects winners or a mini-biography of the head of school.

Suggest your changes (one at a time) on the Talk page of the article with your source, and likely an editor will add it to the article. The conflict of interest guideline will help you understand how to approach changes to an article about an institution that you are associated with. I hope this helps. Schazjmd (talk) 23:21, 19 July 2019 (UTC)

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July 2019

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, we would like you to assume good faith while interacting with other editors. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Inappropriate/unncivil edit summary. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 23:29, 19 July 2019 (UTC)

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia. Your edits appear to be disruptive and have been or will be reverted.

• If you are engaged in an article content dispute with another editor, please discuss the matter with the editor at their talk page, or the article's talk page, and seek consensus with them. Alternatively, you can read Wikipedia's dispute resolution page, and ask for independent help at one of the relevant notice boards.
• If you are engaged in any other form of dispute that is not covered on the dispute resolution page, please seek assistance at Wikipedia's Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents.

Please ensure you are familiar with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines, and please do not continue to make edits that appear disruptive. Continued disruptive editing may result in loss of editing privileges. Thank you. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 23:30, 19 July 2019 (UTC)

Hello Mcobbases. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, such as the edit you made to All Saints Episcopal School (Tyler, Texas), 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 egregious 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, 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, 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:Mcobbases. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Mcobbases|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. John from Idegon (talk) 23:44, 19 July 2019 (UTC)