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Hello, Bryon McLaughlin, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited was Nazarene Theological Seminary, 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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March 2025

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Hello, I noticed that you may have recently made edits to Nazarene Theological Seminary while logged out. Please be mindful not to perform controversial edits while logged out, or your account risks being blocked from editing. Please consider reading up on Wikipedia's policy on multiple accounts before editing further. Additionally, making edits while logged out reveals your IP address, which may allow others to determine your location and identity. If this was not your intention, please remember to log in when editing. Thank you. Skywatcher68 (talk) 21:11, 17 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

As far as I know, I have been logged in while making edits (forgive me if I made an error). I do work for Nazarene Theological Seminary. My interest is simply that accurate content be disclosed. Our institution is in alignment with the Church of the Nazarene's doctrine and polity. Please refer to this document from our president, https://www.nts.edu/affirmations/. In addition, we should not be responsible for the views of former employees/professors, nor should their views characterize our institution. Bryon McLaughlin (talk) 22:39, 17 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
What you can do is propose edits at Talk:Nazarene Theological Seminary under Template:Edit COI (instructions for which are here) and let disinterested third parties give feedback.   –Skywatcher68 (talk) 02:42, 18 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Hello Bryon McLaughlin. The nature of your edits 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:Bryon McLaughlin. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Bryon McLaughlin|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. ElKevbo (talk) 22:24, 17 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome

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Welcome Bryon McLaughlin!

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Hey! I found copyright in one of your articles, don't worry! I reverted it. https://wikimedia.turnitin.com/viewer/submissions/oid:3117:442894959?locale=en Valorrr (talk) 20:29, 26 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Why did you revert the content? It is from the NTS website. We are just trying to develop the page with neutral content. BKM (talk) 20:36, 26 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
If you exactly copy the page it can be considered "Plagiarism" and can hold Wikipedia Accountable. Valorrr (talk) 21:33, 26 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The information is edited, so it may be similar, but is not verbatim. BKM (talk) 21:37, 26 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I referenced the website pages so you would know the information is credible, but I did edit the pages so they are not worded exactly the same. I can do more, if needed. BKM (talk) 21:39, 26 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
One second, let me grab the source. Valorrr (talk) 21:59, 26 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
"https://wikimedia.turnitin.com/viewer/submissions/oid:3117:442894959?locale=en" Valorrr (talk) 21:59, 26 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
If I am doing something wrong, please tell me. BKM (talk) 20:36, 26 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop editing the article about your employer

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Please stop editing the article about your employer. Most editors are generally okay with paid editor making clearly uncontroversial edits to articles about their employer e.g., updating information already in the article, correcting typos. But making substantive edits is generally frowned on as you have a clear conflict of interest. Instead, we encourage and welcome you to make requests and suggestions in the article's Talk page where other editors without a conflict of interest can review them and possibly make the edits. Thanks! ElKevbo (talk) 23:11, 26 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Part of the problem here is that you think because I work for the institution, I can only look at this issue through an institutional lens. I beg to differ. The content I have largely added with my last several edits is about the institution's auxiliary programs, our accreditation, and our prospective on community formation, which is central to our educational approach. All of this is neutral content, which was not posted. BKM (talk) 14:05, 27 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I strongly encourage you to review our policies and practices related to conflicts of interest and paid editing. ElKevbo (talk) 00:18, 28 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I will take your advice seriously moving forward. I just want fair play. The group that is editing the page has a bias. You have worked to correct some of their content, but their content is not intended to be neutral or objective. Our seminary does hold to traditional notions of human sexuality, which is our denominational position, but as a learning institution, we respect knowledge, science, learning, and cultural diversity. We don't desire to be insensitive or condemning to the LGBTQ community. We are not Christian nationalists, though we have a small and vocal minority of such people in our denominational ranks. BKM (talk) 15:24, 3 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks.
Discussing the issue(s) in the article's Talk page is the right approach. If you don't think that the discussion is getting attention from enough editors, you are always welcome to ask for additional input at places like the higher education project or an appropriate noticeboard such as the neutral point of view noticeboard. If you do that, I recommend keeping your message there short and neutral - you don't want anyone to think that you've "poisoned the well." ElKevbo (talk) 23:11, 3 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Control copyright icon Hello Bryon McLaughlin! Your additions to Nazarene Theological Seminary have been removed in whole or in part, as they appear to have added copyrighted content without evidence that the source material is in the public domain or has been released by its owner or legal agent under a suitably free and compatible copyright license. (To request such a release, see Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission.) While we appreciate your contributions to Wikipedia, it's important to understand and adhere to guidelines about using information from sources to prevent copyright and plagiarism issues. Here are the key points:

It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices. Persistent failure to comply may result in being blocked from editing. If you have any questions or need further clarification, please ask them here on this page, or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you. Tenshi! (Talk page) 23:13, 26 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your clarification. I will re-submit this information. BKM (talk) 14:07, 27 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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