User talk:Msegal3054

April 2013

Hello, I'm DragonLord. I wanted to let you know that I undid one of your recent contributions, such as the one you made with this edit to Parrish Art Museum, because it didn’t appear constructive to me. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks, —DragonLord^{(talk/contribs)} 15:22, 4 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Msegal3054. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest or close connection to the subject.

All editors are required to comply with Wikipedia's neutral point of view content policy. People who are very close to a subject often have a distorted view of it, which may cause them to inadvertently edit in ways that make the article either too flattering or too disparaging. People with a close connection to a subject are not absolutely prohibited from editing about that subject, but they need to be especially careful about ensuring their edits are verified by reliable sources and writing with as little bias as possible.

If you are very close to a subject, here are some ways you can reduce the risk of problems:

Avoid or exercise great caution when editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with.
Be cautious about deletion discussions. Everyone is welcome to provide information about independent sources in deletion discussions, but avoid advocating for deletion of articles about your competitors.
Avoid linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam).
Exercise great caution so that you do not accidentally breach Wikipedia's content policies.

Please familiarize yourself with relevant content policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, verifiability of information, and autobiographies.

For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Thank you. —DragonLord^{(talk/contribs)} 15:38, 4 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I think you are doing well intentioned good faith edits to the Parrish Art Museum. However your edits are tripping some hot buttons on wikipedia's mission to be encyclopedic. Here's some of the items that are causing drama: 1) You are removing inline referenced material without explanation (e.g., your edits removed 10 or more references); 2) You are removing links to other Wikipedia articles; 3) You are using puffery; 4) You have the appearance of a conflict of interest because your edit history only shows that you have edited articles about the museum and its director. I appreciate your good faith efforts to improve the article but I would recommend that you take "baby steps" on improving the article by making incremental changes rather wholesale changes until you get comfortable with the wiki process for editing. Many editors can help with making sure little edits are in the correct format so they don't trip the red flags. But when there are a lot of edits that hit Wikipedia's hot buttons those edits usually get reverted whole cloth.Americasroof (talk) 16:07, 4 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello, Msegal3054. You have new messages at DragonLord's talk page.
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—DragonLord^{(talk/contribs)} 17:26, 8 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]