User talk:Aweschler

Copyright problem: York Preparatory School
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We welcome and appreciate your contributions, such as York Preparatory School, but we regretfully cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from either web sites or printed material. This article appears to be a copy from http://www.yorkprep.org/admissions/about/, and therefore a copyright violation. The copyrighted text has been or will soon be deleted.

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If you would like to begin working on a new version of the article you may do so at Talk:York Preparatory School/Temp. Leave a note at Talk:York Preparatory School saying you have done so and an administrator will move the new article into place once the issue is resolved. Thank you, and please feel welcome to continue contributing to Wikipedia. Happy editing! Moonriddengirl (talk) 11:16, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

September 2008
If you have a close connection to some of the people, places or things you have written about, you may have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, edits where there is a conflict of interest, or where such a conflict might reasonably be inferred from the tone of the edit and the proximity of the editor to the subject, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:
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For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for businesses. For more details about what, exactly, constitutes a conflict of interest, please see our conflict of interest guidelines. Moonriddengirl (talk) 19:39, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

York Preparatory School
Hi. I have restored Robert Chambers to the list of the alumni, formatting his identity in accordance with your changes to the article. There is no reason to remove him. He is a notable individual, and his attendance at the school is impeccably sourced to the New York Times. Wikipedia strives to present information neutrally. It is common practice to include notable alumni at schools. Unfortunately, not all of these will be notable for auspicious reasons. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 19:42, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

Please do not add commentary or your own personal analysis to Wikipedia articles. Doing so violates Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy and breaches the formal tone expected in an encyclopedia. Language such as "In a city known for its diversity of private schools, York Prep has developed a unique program tht leads students to their highest potential" is not-neutral. If an independent source, unrelated to your school, expresses an opinion about it, this can be conveyed with proper attribution. Otherwise, commentary cannot be included in the article. Thank you. Moonriddengirl (talk) 10:45, 19 September 2008 (UTC)