Hello, Allyox, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.
I noticed that one of the first articles you edited was Parks College, Oxford, which appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article. Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.
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Hello Allyox. The nature of your edits, such as those you made to Reuben College, Oxford, gives the impression that you are working for the college, 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.
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TSventon (
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- Hi TSventon. Thanks for your advice - I'm new to this! I did make edits to the Reuben College page, since I have knowledge of developments through my employment. Specifically my additions were to inform about college accommodation and academic focus. I will disclose my employment on the Talk page. Would you be kind enough to check I'm doing it right?! Thanks! Allyox ( talk) 07:36 3 August 2021 (BST)
- Hi Allyox, I could see that you were not hiding your employer by choosing a username ending in ox. There is a lot of guidance, some of the most important is WP:PE a paragraph on paid editing and WP:COIU on what edits are considered uncontroversial. Thank you for adding the declaration, I have moved it to the top of the page and added a signature to your post. The coding did not work for some reason so I have adjusted it.
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- If you want to notify an editor when you post on a talk page you can use {{reply to|Username}}: I saw this because I have added your talk page to my watchlist. TSventon ( talk) 08:02, 3 August 2021 (UTC)