User talk:AmyWest2002

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Hello, AmyWest2002, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.

I notice that one of the first articles you edited was Jake Berry, which appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article. Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

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Jake Berry
Hi. I just removed the bulk of your edits to the Jake Berry article. The welcome message above hints at why, but I wanted to be specific about why the information was removed:
 * firstly some of it was an obvious copy and paste from the Tory party website. Sorry, but you absolutely can't do this - it's a very clear copyright violation;
 * the information appeared to not be strictly neutral - the use of this first name, the reference to his dog and so on gave the appearance of being far too much like a fluff piece;
 * the information was unreferenced - you'll notice how I've added multiple references to the article and stuck to what I think we can be happy about (including referencing his date of birth from the more reliable Who's who rather than the WPR site which gives a different date);
 * you removed the only bit of negative stuff in the article. That, in conjunction with the other issues, gave the impression of the edit having a clear conflict of interest.

I'm sure there is useful, neutral information that can be added to the article - although Berry doesn't really appear to have made all that much news outside of the local area and much of it is really very trivial - I'm not sure his calling for free broadband for social housing tenants is really a clear enough issue to add to the article yet (although there may be a case) and I'm pretty convicned that him paying back the few hundred quid he claimed by mistake for his web design is high profile enough. But there probably is stuff that could be added - if it's neutral and can be sourced. So please do so - but take care, especially given Berry's current job working for Shapps and Shapps' past wiki-adevntures with the old airbrush.

If you need me to explain any of this some more then add a note below (signing it with 4 of the tilde marks at the end) and I'll be watching both this page and the Berry article for any comments you have - and don't be scared to make a mistake in your editing - be bold and someone will step up and correct anything that's out of place. Blue Square Thing (talk) 21:05, 30 November 2012 (UTC)