User talk:Drum Major Institute

License tagging for Image:McCain F.jpg
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For more details, please read the Conflict of Interest guideline. -- Ronz 15:34, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

My suggestion
To elaborate on my reply on my talk page: To avoid conflict of interest problems, the best solution is for you to find sources that are helpful in verifying the information currently in the article, and sources useful for finding further information that might be appropriate for inclusion in the article. If you suggest these sources on the Talk page and otherwise focus on contributing to the Talk page, you can avoid the coi problems. See WP:OR for more information on proper sources.

As the article as it is now, relies (almost?) entirely on sources from DMI. That needs to change to meet WP:CORP (or you risk the article being deleted), and most other policies and guidelines as well. -- Ronz 15:48, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

June 2007
Welcome to Wikipedia. It might not have been your intention, but your recent contribution removed content from Drum Major Institute. Please be more careful when editing articles and do not remove content from Wikipedia without a good reason, which should be specified in the edit summary. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. If you would like to experiment again, please use the sandbox. Thank you. If you aren't clear what is needed in order to clean-up the article, please discuss at the article's talk page. Sancho 15:49, 27 June 2007 (UTC)