User talk:Lea M Sims

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Your edits to Peter Tippett

Sorry about deleting all your work. I did it because your last edit, this [1], showed up in my anti-vandal tool. If you look closely, you'll see that you changed a year from 2000 to 200. That was obviously wrong, so I hit 'rollback', and that reverted all your last consecutive edits to the article (I hope that's clear!), not merely your last one.

I have considered reverting my rollback, but there is another more serious concern. Wikipedia aims to be a trustworthy encyclopedia, and that trust will be forfeit if people treat it as an advertising billboard. You really shouldn't be editing your boss's Wikipedia article - please see WP:COI. I realise that that may put you in a difficult position with him, but there have been many cases of people puffing themselves on Wikipedia and finding that the effort backfired, because what it did was generate publicity that they had been puffing themselves on Wikipedia. I assume that isn't what he wants. You can see some examples of how these cases are handled if you take a look at WP:COIN. I suspect that the people there may be able to help you out better than I could. Philip Trueman (talk) 17:23, 9 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Here's a template with our standard guidance. (Terms like "thought leader" are exactly the sort of thing we strive to prevent, by the way.) --Orange Mike | Talk 22:20, 9 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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