User talk:Kaldous

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Hello, Kaldous, and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate encyclopedic contributions, but some of your recent contributions, such as your edit to the page Singapore American School, seem to be advertising or for promotional purposes. Wikipedia does not allow advertising. For more information on this, please see:

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Your edits

Wikipedia wants text that is neutral tone and supported by reliable sources, but mission/vision statements like you added. Joseph2302 (talk) 23:46, 29 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

June 2015

Please do not add or change content, as you did at Singapore American School, without citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Once again, content may only be added when neutral tone and supported by reliable sources. Also, sourced content should not be removed without a consensus to do so, if you want to remove sourced content, start a discussion about it at Talk:Singapore American School. Joseph2302 (talk) 23:57, 29 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Sas comm

@Kaldous, I'd like you to clarify your comments at the SPI. If I understand properly, User:Sas comm is what you meant when you referred to the "school account"; is that right? You created this account (Kaldous) because Sas comm's edits were being reversed as promotional; is that right?

Assuming my interpretation of your remarks is accurate, there are several problems. First, even if I blocked the Kaldous account and allowed you continue editing using the Sas comm account, Wikipedia has a policy about shared accounts, meaning an organization, in this case a school, cannot have an account. Each account must be used by only one person, even if that person is an employee of the school.

The second problem is that Wikipedia has policies and guidelines on what is acceptable editing. Your editing is not acceptable.

Here's my suggestion. If you will assure me that the Kaldous account will be used only by you, I will block the school account. Then, because you have an obvious conflict of interest editing that article, you should not do so. Instead, propose your edits on the article Talk page. Then, other editors who are more experienced than you and who don't have your conflict, can hopefully assist you in editing the article in a policy-compliant way.

I'm putting the SPI on hold and awaiting your response.--Bbb23 (talk) 01:13, 30 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

This is great - thank you for your help. Just to clarify, the school account was never public or used by multiple users. I was given access when I took over for the previous Communications Director. But I will only post using my personal account. I will submit my information to more experienced contributors on the Talk page and work with them to help get the appropriate information updated. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

Good. I've indefinitely blocked Sas comm as you should edit with only one account. I've also closed the SPI. You can read my comments there if you wish. As long as you're going to be posting to the article Talk page, you should learn a few things. You should indent your posts so that a discussion is easier to follow. You should also learn to sign your posts so it's clear who wrote them. You should read some of the links in your Welcome message at the top of this page. In that way you can familiarize yourself with some of the more important policies at Wikipedia. Otherwise, some of the comments you receive when you post to the Talk page will probably be frustrating to you. Good luck.--Bbb23 (talk) 04:17, 30 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]