User talk:Doriirene

November 2019
Hello, I'm Mr Xaero. I noticed that you recently removed content from Anna, Illinois without adequately explaining why. In the future, it would be helpful to others if you described your changes to Wikipedia with an accurate edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry; the removed content has been restored. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. Mr Xaero  ☎️ 21:50, 19 November 2019 (UTC)

Thank you for your contributions. Please mark your edits, such as your recent edits to Anna, Illinois, as "minor" only if they are minor edits. In accordance with Help:Minor edit, a minor edit is one that the editor believes requires no review and could never be the subject of a dispute. Minor edits consist of things such as typographical corrections, formatting changes or rearrangement of text without modification of content. Additionally, the reversion of clear-cut vandalism and test edits may be labeled "minor". Calling this minor edit is not going to help Meters (talk) 23:17, 19 November 2019 (UTC)

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at Anna, Illinois. Your edits appear to be disruptive and have been or will be reverted. Please ensure you are familiar with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines, and please do not continue to make edits that appear disruptive. Continued disruptive editing may result in loss of editing privileges. ''Per WP:BRD it is up to you to discuss this edit on the article's talk page when you have been undone. Don't continue to remove the sourced content. Please read WP:EW '' Meters (talk) 23:19, 19 November 2019 (UTC)
 * If you are engaged in an article content dispute with another editor, please discuss the matter with the editor at their talk page, or the article's talk page, and seek consensus with them. Alternatively, you can read Wikipedia's dispute resolution page, and ask for independent help at one of the relevant notice boards.
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Your recent editing history at Anna, Illinois shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war; that means that you are repeatedly changing content back to how you think it should be, when you have seen that other editors disagree. To resolve the content dispute, please do not revert or change the edits of others when you are reverted. Instead of reverting, please use the talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. The best practice at this stage is to discuss, not edit-war. See the bold, revert, discuss cycle for how this is done. If discussions reach an impasse, you can then post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection.

Being involved in an edit war can result in you being blocked from editing&mdash;especially if you violate the three-revert rule, which states that an editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Undoing another editor's work—whether in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material each time—counts as a revert. Also keep in mind that while violating the three-revert rule often leads to a block, you can still be blocked for edit warring&mdash;even if you don't violate the three-revert rule&mdash;should your behavior indicate that you intend to continue reverting repeatedly.''Stop doing this. Don't remove the sourced content,. Don't replace it with unsourced content. Either discuss this on the article's talk page and attempt to get consensus for your changes or leave it alone.'' Meters (talk) 20:15, 21 November 2019 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, Doriirene. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the page Anna, Illinois, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:


 * avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization or competitors;
 * propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the request edit template);
 * disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see Conflict of interest);
 * avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see WP:Spam);
 * do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. ''Your use of "we" in your edit summaries suggests the possibility of either a COI or a shared account. Are you sharing this account, and do you have a conflict of interest in this article? Working for the town, for example, would be a definite conflict of interest.'' Meters (talk) 20:30, 21 November 2019 (UTC)


 * I do work for the City, I didn't realize i couldn't update some items to be more factual. I saw that the history section of Anna, IL was LACKING. The only information listed was negative, and mostly made up of hearsay. I would like the history to be more factual and focus on the history of the town. Not just negativity from 100+ years ago. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Doriirene (talk • contribs) 20:55, November 21, 2019 (UTC)
 * Please read and comply with the conflict of interest guidelines. Discuss any proposed changes to the article on the article's talk page. This type of issue is why COI edits are a problem. This is Wikipedia's article about the town, it is not the town's article and what a town employee wants to see in the article is not .germane. Meters (talk) 21:32, 21 November 2019 (UTC)