User talk:Targeese

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Managing a conflict of interest

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

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Also please note that editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Grayfell (talk) 22:51, 24 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Greyfell,

I appreciate that you are keeping Wikipedia a clean place. I am a Drupal Developer at Arizona State University, and while I am an employee of Arizona State University, I am simply trying to add former names of Arizona State University, like other schools such as UCLA do. These are facts, there is nothing subjective, misleading or persuasive about this information. Arizona State University does have several other former names over its 130+ year history. These are the edits I was trying to make.

Former names: Territorial Normal School at Tempe (1885-1889)
Tempe Normal School of Arizona (1889-1903)
Tempe Normal School (1903-1925)
Tempe State Teachers College (1925-1929)
Arizona State Teachers College (1929-1945)
Arizona State College (1945-1958)
Arizona State University (1958)

If you can advise of how this should properly be done, I would be appreciative as I don't currently have the bandwidth to research the proper channels.

Thanks much! Targeese (talk) 23:21, 24 August 2018 (UTC)Targeese[reply]

Hello. I appreciate your transparency and good faith efforts to improve the encyclopedia. As a rule of thumb, when your edits are challenged, you should discuss on the article's talk page per WP:BRD. In this case your edit was reverted with the summary "Personally, I think this is too much clutter in the infobox. The field should be used if there are 2 or 3, not 7." I agree with this. University of California, Los Angeles has two entries, and even that seems on the long-side. Figuring out what to include in "infoboxes" is a bit subjective, and should meet the needs of the individual article. Per Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Infoboxes: The less information it contains, the more effectively it serves that purpose, allowing readers to identify key facts at a glance. Listing all seven prior names pushes all the other information below the fold on most monitors, which makes the infobox less effective, but there is plenty or room for discussion, and this is just my opinion. Again, Talk:Arizona State University seems like the best place to discuss this further, so that consensus can be built and others can participate. Thanks. Grayfell (talk) 01:33, 25 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]