User talk:Alicehart

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-- Dlohcierekim (talk) 15:37, 13 February 2018 (UTC) -- Dlohcierekim (talk) 15:37, 13 February 2018 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, Alicehart. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the article Cardiff Sixth Form College, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. Editing for the purpose of advertising or promotion is not permitted. 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, company, organization or competitors;
 * propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (see 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 for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID). Thank you. -- Dlohcierekim (talk) 15:40, 13 February 2018 (UTC)

Hey there! A few things regarding your recent work at Cardiff Sixth Form College
Hey there,

Welcome to Wikipedia, and thanks for trying to help out. I've noticed that you've been working rather aggressively on the Cardiff Sixth Form College article. There's been some problems with your recent edits to that article that I'd like to discuss with you if you have the chance. You'll see here the sort of thing that can cause problems at Wikipedia. That edit is symptomatic of the problems. In the first, you've removed one of the reliable sources being used to provide a reference for factual information in the article. You'll want to try to avoid removing references that are already in articles if at all possible; Wikipedia text is supposed to be cited to reliable sources outside of Wikipedia, and when you remove those citations, you make it harder for our work here to be verifiable. Secondly, while you didn't change the content of the text much, (which in that case was mostly dicussing the foundation of the school and its early history), you drastically changed its tone from a neutral, factual based tone to one of promotionalism. Adding phrases like "from strength to strength" and "a thoroughly multi-cultural environment" is the sort of phrasing expected by things the organization would say about itself in its own promotional material, but is out of place in an encyclopedia article about the organization. That sort of writing would make people think that you are an employee of the organization, or have been hired by them to edit the encyclopedia article, which would give you a conflict of interest, and Wikipedia discourages people from doing exactly that. If you have any questions about how to edit Wikipedia constructively and in ways that are in compliance with Wikipedia's core principles, feel free to ask and I'll try to help as I can. -- Jayron 32 20:03, 13 February 2018 (UTC)

February 2018
Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to add soapboxing, promotional or advertising material to Wikipedia, you may be blocked from editing.

Your addition has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted material, including text or images from print publications or from other websites, without an appropriate and verifiable license. All such contributions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images&mdash;you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. MER-C 20:38, 13 February 2018 (UTC)