User talk:Profmarsh

Welcome!

Hello, Profmarsh, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one or more of your recent edits to the page William Ellis School did not conform to Wikipedia's verifiability policy, and may have been removed. Wikipedia articles should refer only to facts and interpretations verified in reliable, reputable print or online sources or in other reliable media. Always provide a reliable source for quotations and for any material that is likely to be challenged, or it may be removed. Wikipedia also has a related policy against including original research in articles.

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Again, welcome! Tacyarg (talk) 13:31, 12 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for this. I simply added myself to the list of notable alumni of William Ellis School. I am a composer with a separate wikipedia page for myself (not posted by me) and I thought I should be in the list. I was there, along with Maurice Gran, Richard Thompson and others in the list......

How would I verify this? Profmarsh (talk) 13:59, 12 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, for a factual piece of information like this a self-published source would be ok, if you have a website on which you state your school, or have mentioned it in a published interview. In general, however, you shouldn't edit information on Wikipedia which is about you; I'll post a notice below about conflict of interest. Thanks, Tacyarg (talk) 17:58, 12 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Profmarsh. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Roger Marsh, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for article subjects for more information. We ask that you:

avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization, clients, or competitors;
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In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. I am aware that you haven't edited the Roger Marsh article - this is for info only. Tacyarg (talk) 17:59, 12 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]