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A well-earned barnstar

		The Citation Barnstar
		For the hard work of finding and adding sources where they were sorely lacking. 2601:188:0:ABE6:88C9:71A8:B3A9:1FC6 (talk) 23:22, 8 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Elmhurst College category removal

Why are you removing categories from Elmhurst College categories? --Bamyers99 (talk) 22:18, 3 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Common nouns should not be capitalized

Please don't capitalize common nouns in articles. More specifically, if it's not being used as part of a longer, official title, "university" is a common noun that should not be capitalized on its own. Thanks! ElKevbo (talk) 13:28, 1 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, and thank you so much for your help today as we officially become Elmhurst University. We were asked to wait until today to update our Wikipedia article and I discovered there were many things out of date that needed to be changed (personnel, office relocations, etc.) Your assistance is greatly appreciated! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Paul1580 (talk • contribs) 11:09, July 1, 2020 (UTC)

You're welcome.

If you work for the university - your response above gives the impression that you do - then you must review our policies regarding paid editing and conflicts of interest. In brief, if you're being paid to edit an article then you must disclose that fact. If you have a relationship with a subject, you should exercise caution in editing that subject's article(s). I recommend reading those policies, clearly declaring your relationship, and avoiding making any substantive edits to that article and related articles; instead of making edits directly, you can always make requests and suggestions in the article Talk page(s) so other editors without a conflict of interest can review them and carry them out. ElKevbo (talk) 15:34, 1 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Got it. Believe me, I am more than happy to request any future changes to the article in the Talk page as you request to avoid any appearance of conflict of interest. Doesn't matter to me who makes the changes, just that the article remain accurate and verifiable, nothing more. Before I started making changes, there were all of nine notes and references (most of them self-references), and "warning labels" kept appearing, like these below:

https://web.archive.org/web/20080216001718/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmhurst_College

https://web.archive.org/web/20090527123139/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmhurst_College

I have since added over 170 outside citations to prove that the the article is factual, not fluff. After that, the "warning labels" disappeared, and I received a Citation Barnstar. That's important to me, accuracy. While I do have an association with the university, I am not being paid or compensated for updating the article, nor was I asked to by anyone, nor did anyone ever suggest I should. It's an interesting hobby at most, but again, I'll refrain from making any future changes myself and request them through the Talk page since the very last thing I want to happen is have the article censored somehow despite having gone through great lengths to make sure there are proper citations so no more "warning labels" pop up.

Thanks for the advice.Paul1580 (talk) 18:02, 1 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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