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Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. ElKevbo ( talk) 22:42, 21 December 2022 (UTC) reply

Hello NHLomaland. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Point Loma Nazarene University, 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.

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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:NHLomaland. The template {{ Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=NHLomaland|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. — Red-tailed hawk  _(nest) 08:13, 22 December 2022 (UTC) reply

Hi there thanks for this info. I am employed by Point Loma Nazarene University and am part of a team trying to help update our website and pages across the internet to provide more info on our diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts. I'm not being paid to write or add to Wiki in any way, this is the first time I've ever tried to make Wiki edits before so I apologize for not knowing the policies. I'm confused how we are able to then have the page most accurately reflect the university's info if i can't go in and change it? Any insights you can provide would be helpful. NHLomaland ( talk) 17:41, 4 January 2023 (UTC) reply

@ NHLomaland: Please review how to make edit requests, and then post your edit request on the talk page of the article you want them on (in this case, Talk:Point Loma Nazarene University). However, please be aware that you cannot post copyrighted material into Wikipedia - even if you are the copyright holder, or have the copyright holder's permission to do so. All content in Wikipedia - text and images - is free to copy, distribute, repost, and adapt into derivative works, even for commercial purposes. Therefore any content added to Wikipedia must be freely donated or compatibly licensed for this purpose.

Please also be aware that apart from uncontroversial edits about basic facts and figures, primary sources (sources published by the article's subject) are not accepted as reliable. Wikipedia expects content to be verifiable by citations to reliable third-party sources that are independent of the subject. -- Drm310 🍁 ( talk) 19:49, 4 January 2023 (UTC) reply

This edit request by an editor with a conflict of interest was declined. Please see our policy on copyrighted material and our guidelines on using non-free copyrighted material.

Please consider the section below to be added to the Point Loma Nazarene University page. It is important for universities to show their work and commitment to anti-racism work and having it on wiki will help make that clearer.

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(copyright violation removed) NHLomaland ( talk) 22:59, 21 December 2022 (UTC) reply

Please review Reliable Source-- VViking _{Talk Edits} 23:04, 21 December 2022 (UTC) reply

Declined, copyright violation removed. — Red-tailed hawk  _(nest) 08:12, 22 December 2022 (UTC) reply

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