User talk:BAMarchive

Wikipedia is not a promotional medium
Please do not edit the article Brooklyn Academy of Music, since you appear to be connected with it, and your recent edit to the article raised its promotional qualities considerably. Please read WP:COI to learn what to do as an editor with a conflict of interest, which is, basically, to make suggestions for changes on the article's talk page, and allow other non-conflicted editors to make the change if they agree with it. BMK (talk) 02:53, 9 December 2015 (UTC)


 * Hi BMK. We didn't mean to cause a conflict of interest on the article Brooklyn Academy of Music or use it as promotion.  We just wanted to correctly insert the current leadership and make sure it sounded grammatically correct.  We won't edit or use this account to make changes.  Didn't mean to go against the rules of Wikipedia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by BAMarchive (talk • contribs) 10:56, 11 December 2015‎ (UTC)
 * Correcting information is fine, just drop a note on the article's talk page and outline the changes which will make it more accurate. It was adding the stuff about BAM being the oldest ... whatever that sounded promotional, and was also unsourced.  Statements such as that, made in Wikipedia's voice, should be supported by a citation from a reliable source, so readers and other editors can verify it. BMK (talk) 16:31, 11 December 2015 (UTC)
 * BTW, in real life I am very familiar with the institution, and have enjoyed many productions there over the years, so I don't want to get in the way of accuracy in our article. I'm just trying to fight the good fight against the use of Wikipedia for promotional or advertising purposes and to preserve our neutral point of view. Thanks for understanding. BMK (talk) 16:35, 11 December 2015 (UTC)