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16:04, 24 September 2016 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Pdwsvasc. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, 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 organizations for more information. We ask that you:

avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization, clients, or competitors;
propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the {{request edit}} template);
disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see Wikipedia:Conflict of interest#How to disclose a COI);
avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam#External link spamming);
do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

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. Thank you. MrOllie (talk) 17:36, 23 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I do not have any conflict of interest with the pages I have edited, unless being an alumni is a conflict of interest. I'm not being paid for my edits. I have begun editing the pages of institutions where I have knowledge and so am in a position to have knowledge and access to information to improve the pages and plan to eventually expand edits to other pages where I have expertise, particularly medicine. The edits I have made to the Shenandoah Valley Academy page have greatly improved the page, shortened it, removed trivial information. I appreciate that I was not as aggressive with removal of trivial information when I first began editing. Additionally, from my reading wikipedia does not recommended redlinking every person noted in an article, although this can be done. Many institutions have notable alumni with less distinction than those you have deleted from the Shenandoah Valley Academy page. Many secondary schools have lists of principals and headmasters. See Woodberry Forest as an example. Appears there is a double standard here. Pdwsvasc (talk) 23:23, 23 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

If other articles have unencyclopedic content, that is a reason to fix those other articles, not to add more unencyclopedic trivia. In the several years you've had this account, much of your editing has been adding nonnotable alumni and other trivia to this page. Your own status as an alumni does seem to be a conflict in this case, as you are editing about people you have a connection with in a promotional way. I would suggest you try broadening your horizons and editing on some topics you have no personal connection with, to get a better idea of how things are usually done on Wikipedia. MrOllie (talk) 02:43, 24 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]