User talk:KFSeniorProject
Welcome!
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Welcome!
[edit]Hello, KFSeniorProject, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions, especially your edits to Kew-Forest School. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:
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Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or , and a volunteer should respond shortly. Again, welcome! JesseRafe (talk) 22:35, 2 May 2018 (UTC)
Managing a conflict of interest
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Hello, KFSeniorProject. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the article Kew-Forest School, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI 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, company, organization or competitors;
- propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (see the {{request edit}} template);
- disclose your COI when discussing affected articles (see WP:DISCLOSE);
- 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 must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID).
Also please note that editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Hi, thank you for your contributions and for writing to me -- I responded on my talk page, but just wanted to make sure you'd see what I wrote, I'm reproducing it here -- you only need to respond once (if you choose to), I'll see it on either page... Unfortunately, Wikipedia is not run by your school so permission from them to edit doesn't give you permission to make the page reflect their wishes, in fact, quite the opposite, because since you are working for their marketing department and based on your username, it seems like you have a conflict of interest with this subject. There are helpful links on your user talk page about how to get started editing Wikipedia, but to give you a brief rundown of why your edits were objectionable and undone wholesale: You added no citations for any of your claims; you went out of your way to violate the MOS, changing already existing sentences and punctuation/capitalization patterns to suit your whim; you used unencyclopedic tone and prose that read like a press release (something a marketing department would write) as opposed to a basic fact-based neutral description. In short, none of what you had contributed made the article better as an encyclopedia entry. It might have made it better as a marketing page to get people interested in the school, but that is not what encyclopedias are for. That's what the school's website can do. Please review the links on your talk page about ways you can contribute in a collaborative manner. I'm going to give you another template with a few more links and how-tos as well as explanations. You may even need to change your username, due to the COI concerns noted above. JesseRafe (talk) 23:34, 9 May 2018 (UTC) JesseRafe (talk) 23:34, 9 May 2018 (UTC)
Hi JesseRafe,
Thanks for your quick response. I see your points (all of which are valid) and I appreciate your laying them out in such a concise and helpful format. It wasn't my intention to come off as a marketer but stepping back I see how that looks (oops!) Like I said, I'm new to editing and wasn't aware of things like the COS and affiliation policies -- so that's my bad. I'm going to reevaluate and speak to my school (especially about the conflict of interest) as well as review these pages you've linked me to. Again, thanks for the guidance and I hope I haven't made too much trouble. KFSeniorProject (talk) 23:59, 9 May 2018 (UTC)
- No problem, and thank you again for writing to ask what was wrong. Maybe one approach you could take is look for all and any press about the school, even if it's a small local paper, and use the info that's published there to update the article. But things like instructions on how the After Care works or similar details aren't encyclopedic, and will be removed even if they are sourced. Another suggestion I'd make is maybe find another article about a school that seems good and look into the details about it is arranged and laid out and how many sources it has. Just off the top of my head, I'd imagine Stuyvesant HS is a good local article, or any of the SHS. In fact, you could also just open up the edit view on just about any good article and see the amount of markup and sourcing/citing, and also see that on every article, headings for example only have the first letter capitalized, and other ways to get a sense for the style guide used here -- it's important for all articles to have the same layout and be written in as close to the same voice as possible for uniformity. JesseRafe (talk) 16:01, 10 May 2018 (UTC)
December 2018
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Thank you. Orange Mike | Talk 16:08, 27 December 2018 (UTC)