User talk:Connectedinchristmovedbythespirit

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Hi - I'm Girth Summit, and administrator here. I removed a notice placed here by another editor accusing you of sockpuppetry - I assume you are the same person who was previously editing with the account User:Communicationstmatthew? If so, I recognise that you were previously blocked for a username violation, and that you were explicitly invited to create a new account with a different username, so that's not a problem.

There are a couple of things I'm going to ask you to read through before continuing to edit here. The first one is guidance to editors who have a conflict of interest at WP:COI. I am assuming that you are either employed by the St Martins, or perhaps volunteer on their behalf? If so, the COI guidance applies to you - please read it and take the necessary steps.

The next thing I'm going to ask you to look at is our verifiability policy. Everything in our articles should be verifiable by reference to a reliable source. Ideally, those sources should be indepentent of the subject (WP:IS), and secondary (WP:SECONDARY). In the changes you made, you removed all of the references, and all of the links to other articles, from the text - that's not OK, it makes our article unverifiable, and the links are useful for readers. You were also writing in a highly promotional tone, which isn't appropriate for an encyclopedia. (Example: "Resourcefulness and ingenuity enabled St. Matthew parishioners to joyfully make due with spartan accommodations, creating a family spirit that exists to this day." - come on, that reads like advertising copy!)

If you need help getting to grips with references and such like, you can ask at the WP:TEAHOUSE. Please don't reinstate your recent edits to that article however. Best Girth Summit  (blether)  14:43, 16 August 2022 (UTC)

Yikes - I just realised that the content you were adding was taken from the parish website! That's absolutely unacceptable - please read our copyright policy. Or, if you don't want to do that, because it's very long, read this short version: don't copy stuff from other websites, even if you own that website. The nature of our license means that you cannot publish stuff like that here. If you reinstate that stuff again, your account will most likely be blocked, without the option of creating another one. Cheers Girth Summit  (blether)  14:51, 16 August 2022 (UTC)