User talk:Aarrisarchitects

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I notice you've edited the article African Burial Ground National Monument, and that your username choice suggests that you represent the architectural firm that designed the monument. I am concerned about whether the edits you made were helpful or not, because i notice that they added external links to the Aarrisarchitects firm and to two architects at the firm. And, they deleted at least two good references to news articles. And, I don't see what they added, except for naming both of the owners/founders of the architect firm, which I am not sure adds to this article about the national monument. Our goal in wikipedia is to build articles that are accurate, reliable and well-sourced. Deleting valid references, especially goes against that. And external links are usually not included in the main text of articles, but rather appear in a separate "External links" section below or within footnotes.

I will look again at your edits to see if they added any new information that should be saved, but I may end up reverting the page back to how it was before you edited it. Please don't take offense. Please do feel free to discuss these changes and to suggest changes or corrections to the article in the article's Discussion page. If there is any incorrect information in the article or in the newspaper sources that it relies upon, it would be most helpful if you would explain that in the Discussion. Also, if you have other references that could be used or added, that could be helpful.

So while it's not forbidden in wikipedia for people to edit articles about themselves or their firms, it does raise some issues. I hope you will please read the Wikipedia policy statements linked above. Please feel free to contact me at my own talk page.

And, I do hope you will contribute to wikipedia. Cheers, doncram (talk) 07:17, 26 June 2008 (UTC)