User talk:EWood45

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I noticed that one of the first articles you edited was Gateway Greening, which 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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Nomination of Gateway Greening for deletion
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Hi OrionRing!

You're correct, I DO find it a bit difficult to talk objectively about Gateway Greening because I am currently an unpaid volunteer there as part of my AmeriCorps experience. While I do have an association with the organization, it is not my intention to promote it's services, but rather, to create an informational resource about what it is, and does. To clarify, this is not something I undertook as part of my involvement with Gateway Greening, but as a personal side project about a topic I'm interested in.

Rather than deleting the article outright due to conflict of interest (it appears to still be up), would it be possible to move the existing article into a draft? I'd like to invite Wikipedians to edit the article so that it meets Wikipedia's guidelines. If not, would it be alright for me to re-create the article as a draft and ask for input, given my connection with Gateway Greening?

Sorry for causing trouble!

Erin
 * Pinging specific editor: --Majora (talk) 21:57, 26 May 2016 (UTC)