User talk:EricJCrawford

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That said: From your username, I suspect that you may have a WP:COI concerning Mount Michael Benedictine Abbey and High School, on which you've recently done a number of edits. I certainly wouldn't discourage you from editing the article&mdash;if you're on the staff at Mt. Michael, you may have access to sources concerning the school's history that most of us don't. However, in your situation you need to be especially mindful of such Wikipolicies as WP:NPOV and WP:NOTPROMOTION. I'd encourage you to read those before doing further edits to the article, and to keep them always in mind while you're editing. You might also want to look at the set of article guidelines laid out by WikiProject Schools, found at WP:WPSCH/AG.

If you don't mind still more advice, could I suggest that you add edit summaries to your edits? That makes it easier for other editors to find when and by whom particular edits were made. If you haven't seen it, click the "Article history" tab toward the upper right of an article; that'll show the list of edits, by whom they were made, and the edit summaries that they left.

I hope you don't find all of this too discouraging. As I said, I think you could contribute a great deal to the Mt. Michael article, which is currently rather minimal. Please feel free to drop a line at my talk page if you've got any questions that you think I could help you with. (Just click the "talk" after my username and then edit the page; for a new conversation, start a new section at the bottom of the page.) Ammodramus (talk) 23:23, 16 July 2012 (UTC)