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Notice of edit warring

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war. This means that you are repeatedly changing content back to how you think it should be although other editors disagree. Users are expected to collaborate with others, to avoid editing disruptively, and to try to reach a consensus, rather than repeatedly undoing other users' edits once it is known that there is a disagreement.

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Edit warring is disruptive regardless of how many reverts you have made;
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If you find yourself in an editing dispute, use the article's talk page to discuss controversial changes and work towards a version that represents consensus among editors. You can post a request for help at an appropriate noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, it may be appropriate to request temporary page protection. If you engage in an edit war, you may be blocked from editing. Adakiko (talk) 00:56, 17 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the information. How do I make contact with the person who in which I am engaged with the edit war. I do not know who the user is? Cbolton2001 (talk) 00:59, 17 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Conflict of interest

Hello, Cbolton2001. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page St John's College, Hastings, 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.-gadfium 01:51, 17 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Gadfium

I am a teacher at the school and the current Director of Religious Education, so I acknowledge conflict. I acknowledge the history aspect and concede that removing it will just continue edits and re-edits which is not my intention. I would, however, like to add a note in the history that it is a sad history but it does not represent the College and what it stands for today. Would this be an issue.

Thanks for reaching out. Cbolton2001 (talk) 02:13, 17 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Last month, I retitled the section "Historical abuse", and it deals with two people who have not worked at the school for a long time. I do not think readers of the article would draw the conclusion that the abuse is ongoing. If we had the dates they worked there that would make it more clear, but we would also need a reliable source for those dates. I mentioned in an edit summary last month that the section could be moved into the "History" section rather than kept separate.

Has the school issued any public statement regretting the abuse and expressing support for the victims? If so, that could be given a line in the section. We cannot say "it does not represent the College..." without such a source.-gadfium 03:34, 17 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

As an employee at the school WP:PAID applies (even if not asked by the school to edit the Wikipedia article), meaning that you must declare your paid status on your USER page and refrain from editing the article directly. Instead you must propose changes on the article's Talk page, so that non-connecte editors can incorporate or not. David notMD (talk) 02:12, 18 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]