User talk:CommsACORD

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Hello, CommsACORD, and welcome to Wikipedia!&#32;Thank you for your contributions.

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited 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.&#32;Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place  before the question. Again, welcome! Drmies (talk) 18:41, 8 September 2017 (UTC) How can copy be proofed first to see if it is prohibited material. Additionally ACORD is a nonprofit organization so I am not exactly sure what you feel is "yellow pages" about it.
 * Please don't confuse Wikipedia with the Yellow Pages, or with your organization's website. Your proposed changes were pure promotion. Drmies (talk) 18:42, 8 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Hey CommsACORD. The first thing you should do is register an account that doesn't give the impression you represent an organization, or a department within one. Because that's a violation of our username policy, and is likely to get this account blocked just like the other one was. Your username can pretty much be anything, even a random string of characters as long as you can remember it.


 * Second, you should carefully read our policies on conflicts of interest and be sure to abide by them. Failure to do so, regardless of what your username is, is also likely to result in a block. This is one of the most visited sites in the world, and so we have probably a few hundred people show up every day with the intention of promoting a person or organization. It's pretty easy to spot, and we're pretty good at preventing it, since that's not the purpose of Wikipedia.


 * More to your question, your edit was basically inappropriate down to a word, and very much read like something you would find in a press release or official company website. An encyclopedia is neither of those, and is pretty much supposed to read like it was written by a "neutral editorial robot", who just reports the dry facts, and doesn't really understand how to use colorful language.


 * If you have follow up questions (once you've registered a new account), feel free to ask at The Teahouse, where there's almost always lots of folks around willing to help. Timothy Joseph Wood  21:35, 8 September 2017 (UTC)


 * Whether something is a non-profit or not has nothing to do with it. You can make promotional edits regardless of the tax status of an organization. Drmies (talk) 23:36, 8 September 2017 (UTC)