User talk:209.222.196.82

November 2023
You may be blocked from editing without further warning if you make any further edits without responding to the inquiry you received regarding undisclosed paid editing. ''Hello! Your IP address is indicated as originating from Unity College - Yarmouth Hall Pineland. Unity Environmental University employees are reminded to adhere to Wikipedia's Conflict of Interest and Disclosure policies. Please see Conflict_of_interest.'' Oswako (talk) 21:36, 25 November 2023 (UTC)


 * Hello, we are trying to make objective clarifying edits to incorrect information. Some of the current information is misleading and not fact. Please advise as to how to best do this. Thank you! 209.222.196.82 (talk) 15:01, 27 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Hello, and thank you for responding.
 * One reason for Wikipedia's Conflict of Interest policy (see Wikipedia:Conflict of interest) is because when an article is about a specific person, institution, organization, etc., it can be hard for the subject of the article to approach it with the required neutral point of view.
 * I notice, for example, that you edited the sentence "In 2020, Unity College closed its  Unity  campus due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States" to "In 2020, Unity College sent residential students home to learn remotely due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States." These are two ways to describe roughly the same event, but it is factually correct that Unity's campus was closed; here's a letter in which the college's president says, "At this time, our athletics facilities and library are closed to all but UC employees" and says students must vacate the campus due to the pandemic. The campus closed. The presence of faculty or staff to maintain buildings (or because faculty may live on campus or what have you) doesn't mean the campus isn't closed.
 * All three of the edits made by this account were to remove the terms "closed" or "closure." As an outside observer, that would appear to me that the university is concerned about having terms like "closed" associated with the institution, but that's not the same as those terms being not factual. That's just the university's preference.
 * All that said, the best way to encourage changes would be to discuss them on the page Talk:Unity Environmental University. An account associated with the subject of a page must disclose its relationship, ideally on your user page. You might find that other Wikipedians agree with your view! But they need to know that your view is the view of the university, and not a neutral party. Oswako (talk) 19:10, 6 December 2023 (UTC)
 * In fact, in the interest of fairness, I do agree that one of those lines about the later proposed "closure" of the campus does read better as proposed "sale of the Unity, Maine campus" and will make that change. Oswako (talk) 19:14, 6 December 2023 (UTC)