User talk:HummingbirdBert

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Proposed deletion of Cambridge Friends School

The article Cambridge Friends School has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

DOesn't meet WP:ORG or WP:GNG, no good redirect target. See WP:SCHOOLOUTCOMES.

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Nomination of Cambridge Friends School for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Cambridge Friends School is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

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Paid editing

This userid (Carnegie Comm) appears to reference Carnegie Communications, which refers to itself as "The leader in integrated marketing and enrollment services for education." The account's contributions have all been for a few academic institutions. If this account is actually for Carnegie Communications, you need to disclose that you're making paid contributions, and who the client is. Policy is here: Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure BubbaJoe123456 (talk) 23:04, 14 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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June 2020

Hello Carnegie Comm. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to University_of_La_Verne_College_of_Law, 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 egregious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat SEO.

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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:Carnegie Comm. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Carnegie Comm|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. BubbaJoe123456 (talk) 15:26, 3 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@BubbaJoe123456: Thank you for your feedback. My apologies, as I thought I had included the required disclosure before. The disclosure can now be found on the User page. As structural and program changes have been made to the University of La Verne College of Law for the 2020-2021 academic year, we hope to make these changes clear on Wikipedia on behalf of the institution. Do you advise resubmitting edits?

Thanks for posting the disclosure. Since you're a paid editor, you shouldn't edit the La Verne article directly. Go to the article's talk page, and use the request edit template to request a non-conflicted editor to make the changes.BubbaJoe123456 (talk) 18:13, 8 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Springfield College

Carnegie Comm, several of your recent contributions to Springfield College read like official communications promoting the college. Do you have any relationship with Springfield College? --Macrakis (talk) 19:15, 11 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Macrakis, Springfield College has contracted Carnegie Dartlet to update their Wikipedia page. We made changes to get rid of outdated information: Their accreditation, schools, and physical campuses have all changed over the past two years. As well, their athletics section includes outdated figures. The school also wanted to update their history section. We had attempted to submit this information twice through the Talk feature (as we had done with the University of La Verne College of Law) but received no response even for small edits. We have since updated our information to include Springfield College. Carnegie Comm (talk) 19:45, 19 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

You really should have mentioned this on your User page before starting to edit the Springfield College page.

I suppose it's reasonable to correct uncontroversial objective facts (as long as they're not being given undue prominence) like the things you mention above, but you went beyond that: the honorary degree, the Calvin Hall, and the archive sections are not that at all:

Your edit to the honorary degree section includes an untruth: that Springfield was the first school to award Martin Luther King Jr. an honorary degree. Yes, you cite an article saying this, but presumably because you are working for Springfield, you didn't perform due diligence to confirm this claim. Since the other claims about King are sourced to the same article, I must assume that it is unreliable, so I will remove them. I will also cut back the story about Linkletter.
The Calvin Hall section seems to be a routine press release touting the colleges contributions to the community. I have removed it.
I have already reduced the archives section.

I am also disappointed that, as professional editors, you have not followed Wikipedia's style guides. For example, references are supposed to follow punctuation, not precede it. Wikipedia does not use curly quotes.

I will report your activities to the Administrator's Noticeboard. --Macrakis (talk) 20:55, 19 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. --Macrakis (talk) 21:24, 19 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Macrakis, when you said " MLK had received at least 8 honorary degrees before 1964" [1], did you have a source for that? The article itself says only "King was awarded at least fifty honorary degrees from colleges and universities," and that's all the cited source supports. That after all was your reason for declaring that the The Springfield Republican article is unreliable [2]. And why the snarkiness about punctuation? Don't we have a bot to deal with that? Yappy2bhere (talk) 22:21, 19 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The first result for the Google search [martin luther king honorary degrees] is [3], which shows 8 honorary degrees before 1963. This is an academic library site, so I tend to believe it. --Macrakis (talk) 22:52, 19 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I'm moved by your faith in state college websites, but there are only 18 honorary degrees in that list, not "at least fifty" as the article's source claims. Repeating your search the first three results are the LSU page listing 18 honorary degrees, a WSU page listing 20, and the U Kentucky MLK Center claiming just 5. If you're going to call an editor out for adding a lie to an article, first make damned sure that it really is a lie and not simply a mistake you could have easily made yourself. Yappy2bhere (talk) 02:33, 20 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Yappy2bhere: I'm not sure what your point is. The LSU page says that the honorary degrees "include" the ones they list -- it doesn't purport to be an exhaustive list. And it is easy to verify them, e.g., [4]. In any case, it shows that he received at least one honorary degree before Springfield, which is all that is needed to show that the Springfield one wasn't the first. --Macrakis (talk) 13:35, 20 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

August 2021

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Decline reason:

Per below. — Daniel Case (talk) 19:56, 22 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

This user's request to be unblocked to request a change in username has been reviewed by an administrator, who accepted the request.

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Accept reason:

I have renamed and unblocked your account. Please read the note about paid editing below. PhilKnight (talk) 13:57, 27 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Rename not successful

The chosen username is too similar to an existing username or it used to be username of someone else that got renamed: PandaPenguin. Please choose again. --Deepfriedokra (talk) 10:53, 22 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Disclosure of Paid Edits to Marquette University and Cambridge Friends School?

You've now made the appropriate disclosures for your paid work on behalf of Springfield College and University of La Verne. You've also made edits to Marquette University Graduate School and Cambridge Friends School (which was deleted). Were the edits you made to those pages paid edits as well? If so, you need to add those to the disclosures on your user page and make a disclosure on the Marquette University Graduate School talk page. Instructions on how to do so are here. BubbaJoe123456 (talk) 16:08, 26 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! I have added Marquette University Graduate School to my disclosures. I was not paid for the Cambridge Friends School edits.