User talk:Jdoffice1

September 2020

Hello, I'm Meters. I noticed that you added or changed content in an article, South High School (Denver), but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so. You can have a look at the tutorial on citing sources. If you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Meters (talk) 20:34, 10 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not remove maintenance templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to South High School (Denver), without resolving the problem that the template refers to, or giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your removal of this template does not appear constructive, and has been reverted. Really? You remove a cn from 2007 and add yet more unsourced material? 13 years is more than enough time to provide a source. I've removed the claim entirely. Meters (talk) 20:35, 10 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I will try to follow your recommendations about the changes I made. Sorry I forgot to sign my last message to you, about 5 minutes ago.

Please remember that SHAFI, the South alumni organization, is a volunteer group so the membership changes often. I have no idea who added the incorrect information about the 1992 comment.

I also don't understand your comment about how I changed a template. I didn't mean to do that; I was just trying to correct the information. Jackie Jdoffice1 (talk) 22:27, 11 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

You removed a maintenance template. It was asking for a citation, and you deleted it and added yet more unsourced information. Meters (talk) 23:17, 11 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Jdoffice1. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the page South High School (Denver), 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:

avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization or competitors;
propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the {{request edit}} template);
disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see Wikipedia:Conflict of interest#How to disclose a COI);
avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see WP:Spam);
do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

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. Per your comment on my talk page, you have a conflict of interest in this article. Meters (talk) 23:18, 11 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Conflict of interest?

I don't know how to update the South High Denver page. The current information about the local historic preservation is incorrect. The VP of SHAFI, the South High alumni association, asked me to help correct that information. He didn't know people can create an ID/logon and then provide feedback to Wikipedia pages. I told him I could help.

Please advise how to proceed. We just want that page to be correct. Jackie Jdoffice1 (talk) 02:00, 12 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Draft of improved edit to South HIgh Denver page

Hi Meter, Okay, what about something like this: In 1992, South High School was designated as a City and County Denver Historic Preservation site (URL for the City and County of Denver list of Historic Preservation sites). Currently (2020), the alumni association (SHAFI) is pursuing a nomination for South to be listed on the National Register of Historic Places (URL for this site) . SHAFI received a grant from the Colorado State Historical Fund (grant #) to hire an architectural historian to research and write the nomination form.

Please let me know if that is acceptable. Jackie Jdoffice1 (talk) 05:11, 12 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Please read and follow the instructions above.

The place for WP:COI editors to propose changes is on the article's talk page
Disclose your conflict of interest when you do so. Your username and the fact that you are doing this at the request of someone from the alumni association suggests that you work in the school's alumni office or the museum, which would mean that you are actually a WP:PAID editor. Note that "on-loan staff, and unpaid workers, including volunteers, are deemed to be employees. If they are directed or expected to edit Wikipedia as part of their tasks, they must make a paid-contribution disclosure."
Why would you think that proposing the same text that I just removed would be acceptable? Read the first warning I left you. It was unsourced then and it is unsourced now, as is the entire alumni association section, and much of the article. Vague suggestions about inserting URLs and grant numbers are not references. A URL for the National Register of Historic Places does not show that an application has been made, and a bare grant number means nothing. The information needs to be verifiable by readers. Show us the actual references. And you have not provided a source for the original 1992 designation. We need to see specific references that show that the school was designated at at the State and City level in 1992,and that a new application is in progress at the national level.
The actual wording could use some very minor tweaking. Nothing to worry about. We already know what SHAFI is so we don't need to explain it again. And "Currently (2020)" is not well written. "Currently" is not appropriate in an encyclopedia. Imagine you are reading that next year or some years later. Meters (talk) 20:17, 12 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]