Ntucadbe

Perchance are you in the staff of Nottingham Trent University? -- Zanimum (talk) 17:45, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

Conflict of interest editing

Hello, Ntucadbe. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Nottingham Trent University, 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 organizations for more information. We ask that you:

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Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you.--Rocknrollmancer (talk) 00:55, 8 February 2022 (UTC)

• I have annotated both Nottingham Trent University, School of Art and Design and Nottingham Trent University as having contributions by a conflicted editor; I have seen the message/question at the head of your Talk page from 2008, and your response a day later at Talk:Nottingham Trent University, School of Art and Design, to where I have copied the question for completeness and clarity.

  Wikipedia's policy on Conflict of Interest Editing precludes those declaring an interest from directly making changes. Please do not try to input further changes; instead, suggestions can be made - with appropriate reliable sources - at the article Talk pages. Thank you.--Rocknrollmancer (talk) 01:49, 8 February 2022 (UTC)

Hi Rocknrollmancer. I work in the Marketing department at Nottingham Trent University. I am updating out of date information on the page and not editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anything. I would like to make changes to the Rankings and Reputation section too, as some of this out of date. Would there be a problem if I wanted to do this? I'm new to Wikipedia, so unsure of processes. Thanks Ntucadbe (talk) 10:07, 10 February 2022 (UTC)Ntucadbe

ThanQ for responding. Firstly, this account goes back to 2008, with a spate of editing in 2014; therefore as you state you are new to Wikipedia and are an employee of the University, I can only conclude you are using a corporate log-in/username. This is strictly not allowed.

Conflict of Interest editing in any case is highly discouraged (this applies to employees, family members and other criteria). Wikipedia is written by volunteers who are unbiased, based on published information which preferably should be secondary, that is newspapers, magazines (traditionally) but with the rise of virtual (new) media this complicates things.

You should not attempt any further direct changes, but you can suggest changes at the article Talk page, which should be corroborated by published sources. Primary sources can be suggested if no secondary sources are available.

I would have to take advice from an administrator on how to proceed regarding this account, so please bear with us a bit longer.--Rocknrollmancer (talk) 16:43, 10 February 2022 (UTC)

1. This account has been operating as a shared account, which is strictly forbidden. Each individual human being should have created an account of their own, and disclosed their obvious conflict of interest. Thus, this account has been blocked; see the instructions inside the block notice.

2. New (2022) editor, this kind of editing is 'for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting' NTU, and thus very much is promotion as Wikipedia defines it. You are being paid to make NTU look good, and none of the persons using this account have ever copped to this. Nowadays, disclosure of paid editing is mandatory. If you get unblocked and create a personal account of your own, you are still very very very VERY strongly discouraged from ever editing any NTU-related articles. If you see something you think need updating or improving, then after making the full mandatory disclosures of conflict of interest, suggest those updates or improvements on the talk page(s) of the article(s) in question, mentioning your COI as you do so. --Orange Mike | Talk 16:24, 15 February 2022 (UTC)

February 2022

Welcome to Wikipedia. Because we have a policy against usernames which give the impression that the account represents a group, club, organization, company, or website - I have blocked this account. Please take a moment to either create a new account, or request a change of username of your current account here. The new username must represent only yourself as an individual and comply with Wikipedia's username policy.

It also appears that your account is intended to be used for the purpose of telling the world about an organization, person or cause that you consider worthwhile. Unfortunately, many good causes are not sufficiently notable for their own Wikipedia article, and all users are discouraged from editing in any area where they have an inherent conflict of interest. You may wish to consider one of these alternative outlets. Additionally, if your contributions to Wikipedia form all or part of work for which you are, or expect to be, paid, you must disclose who is paying you to edit.

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 Thank you. Orange Mike | Talk 16:15, 15 February 2022 (UTC)