User talk:BCMBCBOP

A lengthy welcome
Welcome to Wikipedia. I've added a welcome message to the top of this page that gives a great deal of information about Wikipedia. I hope you find it useful.

Additionally, I hope you don't mind if I share some of my thoughts on starting out as a new editor on Wikipedia: If I could get editors in your situation to follow just one piece of advice, it would be this: Learn Wikipedia by working only on non-contentious topics until you have a feel for the normal editing process and the policies that usually come up when editing casually. You'll find editing to be fun, easy, and rewarding. The rare disputes are resolved quickly and easily.

Working on biographical information about living persons is far more difficult. Wikipedia's Biographies of living persons policy requires strict adherence to multiple content policies, and applies to all information about living persons including talk pages.

If you have a relationship with the topics you want to edit, then you will need to review Wikipedia's Conflict of interest policy, which may require you to disclose your relationship and restrict your editing depending upon how you are affiliated with the subject matter. Regardless, editing in a manner that promotes an entity or viewpoint over others can appear to be detrimental to the purpose of Wikipedia and the neutrality required in articles.

Some topic areas within Wikipedia have special editing restrictions that apply to all editors. It's best to avoid these topics until you are extremely familiar with all relevant policies and guidelines.

If you work from reliable, independent sources, you shouldn't go far wrong. WP:RSP and WP:RSN are helpful in determining if a source is reliable.

I hope you find some useful information in all this, and welcome again. --Hipal/Ronz (talk) 18:43, 4 July 2020 (UTC)

COI
Hi - I'm Girth Summit, an administrator here. I noticed that your contribution history seems be exclusively about adding assertions to the effect that people graduated from the Berklee College of Music. Your username - which starts with the initials BCM - makes me suspect that you may be affiliated with the college in some way. Please can I draw you attention to our guidance on editing with a conflict of interest, and particularly to our rules around paid editing, which form part of the terms of use of this website? You are required to declare any affiliation to subject matter that you write about - please explain the nature of your connection to the college. Please respond to this note before making any further edits to our articles, or your account may be blocked from editing. Thank you. Girth Summit  (blether) 19:27, 14 December 2021 (UTC)