User talk:Mark.duffie

August 2019[edit]

Hello, Mark.duffie. 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 COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the COI guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:

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

In addition, you must 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 WP:PAID).

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. ElKevbo (talk) 16:14, 28 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I got your note on my Talk page asking for advice. My best advice is to propose or ask for edits in your article's Talk page instead of making the edits yourself. That gives other editors an opportunity to decide for themselves if the requested edits meet our guidelines and expectations while allowing you to avoid any possibility of a conflict-of-interest (since another editor entirely will have made the actual edit to the article). If you post a request or suggestion and don't hear back from anyone within a few days - this is a volunteer project, after all! - feel free to drop a line at the universities project Talk page or my Talk page.

To get a feel for what we typically includes in college and university articles, take a look at our advice for content in those articles. It might also be helpful to look at the "Featured Class" articles and "Good" articles associated with the universities project. They're not all about specific institutions but many of them are and they should give you a good idea what some Wikipedia editors consider to be really good articles.

In general, keep in mind that we write encyclopedia articles for a very broad audience. In particular, these articles are not intended to be advertisements for institutions. Try to take a long view and figure out what information is critical for all readers to know. And don't be afraid to ask for help! ElKevbo (talk) 19:49, 29 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]