User talk:Bluefirefly999

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Tags on Seattle Lighthouse for the Blind
The maintenance tags at the top of Seattle Lighthouse for the Blind are to alert other editors that there are issues with the article so they can assist. Do not remove the tags while the issues remain. For instance, there are still no references in the article, so the tag must remain showing that the article is unreferenced. —C.Fred (talk) 16:31, 30 December 2010 (UTC)


 * Please respond to my comment at Talk:Seattle Lighthouse for the Blind before removing the maintenance tag. —C.Fred (talk) 19:58, 30 December 2010 (UTC)

Okay, won't remove maintenance tag, thought I was supposed to if I thought I fixed the issue. I didn't see your first message until just now, never used wikipedia before and I have to fix this page today. I am finding this extremely frustrating, as the Lighthouse has tasked me with fixing the grossly incorrect information that was previously on this page, and making sure all the flags are removed. But I don't know what pages to have link to our page. You have our legal name incorrect which is confusing donors who look us up on the internet and are making their end of the year gifts to the wrong lighthouse. You say someone edited the page that has a conflict of interest - of course, who else would care to edit our page and actually know what was correct?


 * Editors should be basing the page's content on what is published in reliable sources, rather than on first-hand knowledge of the entity. If donors are making gifts to the incorrect lighthouse, then they aren't doing enough due diligence on their end. Wikipedia is not a directory, so they should be getting contact information, mailing addresses, legal names, etc. directly from the entity they wish to donate to.
 * Because this is a situation that I think would benefit from the involvement of more editors, I'm opening a report at the conflict of interest noticeboard. —C.Fred (talk) 21:18, 30 December 2010 (UTC)


 * Also, in case you haven't read it, here are the Wikipedia definitions and some guidelines on conflicts of interest. Note that editors with COIs aren't prohibited from editing articles about their organizations, though they are expected to keep to neutral tone and use independent sources—just the same as every other editor. —C.Fred (talk) 21:23, 30 December 2010 (UTC)