User talk:Ocs04

June 2022

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to add promotional or advertising material to Wikipedia, as you did at Dartmouth High School (Massachusetts), you may be blocked from editing. Drmies (talk) 01:45, 5 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello, Owen Scieszka, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited was Dartmouth High School (Massachusetts), which appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article. Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

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I don't understand why you keep removing the music department section of that article. How is it "disruptive"? It's literally just a list of all the shows my schools band program has done, nothing about it is advertising or promoting anything, it's just information. I really don't appreciate you deleting everything, and I really don't understand what the issue is and why you care so much. What do I need to do for you to allow me to put the music department section back? --Drmies (talk) 13:48, 5 June 2022 (UTC) Owen Scieszka (talk) 02:22, 5 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Please don't personalize this with "why you care so much". We are an encyclopedia; we are not a webhost for your school's quotidian (or annual) activities. Information needs to be relevant and properly verified with SECONDARY sources, not the website of the school or some organization. In addition, information needs to be neutral, so when you say "The music department at Dartmouth High School has a long history of successes and is nationally well renowned" you are missing the mark both in terms of independent verification (because NO secondary sources say this) and neutral language. You could have read all this via the links, above. And you still need to declare your conflict of interest, and read the relevant guidelines. Thank you. Drmies (talk) 13:48, 5 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]