User talk:JK7ET!

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, JK7ET!. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page John Kyrle High School, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for article subjects for more information. We ask that you:

avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization, clients, or competitors;
propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the {{edit COI}} template)—don't forget to give details of reliable sources supporting your suggestions;
disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see Wikipedia:Conflict of interest § How to disclose a COI);
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In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Tacyarg (talk) 12:05, 15 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The edits are factual and sourced, there is no conflict of interest JK7ET! (talk) 07:09, 16 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, thank you for your response. Do you work for or represent the school? Your username includes the school's initials. You have added promotional material to the article and written about "our students". The school's website is not an independent, reliable source. Tacyarg (talk) 07:40, 16 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Good Morning,

The School is updating the page in line with guidance received from Independent Education Governance Professionals following the Department for Education's updated guidance on School websites from May 2024.What maintained schools must or should publish online - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) Whilst we understand the referral to a "conflict of interest" as the page is indeed about "us", there are strong legal frameworks in place to ensure schools operate consistently such as "The School Information (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2012" therefore although we own our website, the content on it is highly regulated by the UK Department for Education and our own Multi-Academy Trust which has oversight of several Schools and Colleges and is bound by the same aforementioned legal frameworks, plus stringent charity and financial legal requirements laid out by the UK Government. We would suggest that the JKHS website and that of the Heart of Mercia Trust are therefore reliable sources and independent in so far as we are not permitted to be "promotional" or bias as per Government policy.

Any edits we carry out on Wikipedia (and our own website or other sources) are not for promotional purposes. As aforementioned, legally we need to comply with Government requirements. The recent edits are to show a balanced view of the school in it's current format having gone through a period of change in recent years. You'll note we have not removed the more negative elements of our recent past such as the unfair dismissal.

We have removed the reference to "our" this was a genuine error.

Thank you for your concern,

JKHS JK7ET! (talk) 08:25, 16 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi,

Having just had a look at the May 2024 guidelines that you linked above, could you clarify where they suggest that schools should be directly updating Wikipedia? Axad12 (talk) 14:13, 16 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Notice of Conflict of interest noticeboard discussion

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard regarding a possible conflict of interest incident with which you may be involved. Thank you. Tacyarg (talk) 08:13, 16 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

July 2024

Hello JK7ET!. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to John Kyrle High School, 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 employed (or being compensated in any way) by a person, group, company or organization to promote their interests. Paid advocacy on Wikipedia must be disclosed even if you have not specifically been asked to edit Wikipedia. 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 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 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:JK7ET!. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=JK7ET!|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. jlwoodwa (talk) 08:32, 16 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello,

Obviously we are new to editing Wikipedia so any transgression of guidelines is completely unintentional, we just wanted to update the information to reflect the current day. Others Schools in our area have more detailed Wikipedia entries which source to their websites and data so we just followed this precedent. Can I suggest we compromise and user Tacyarg can edit the page as they see fit and we will not edit further without submitting on the talk page?

Thank you JK7ET! (talk) 09:09, 16 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Using the talk page is a great idea, but even if you don't edit the article directly, the paid editing policy still applies. If you are employed by John Kyrle High School or otherwise paid to represent them, you are required to disclose this. jlwoodwa (talk) 09:36, 16 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Your username

Welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your username, "JK7ET!", may not meet Wikipedia's username policy because Wikipedia does not allow accounts to be shared by multiple people (particularly, I noticed your use of "we" and "our", which led me to wonder). If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. As an alternative, you may ask for a change of username by completing the form at Special:GlobalRenameRequest, or you may simply create a new account for editing. Thank you. -- Pemilligan (talk) 15:02, 16 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]