User talk:FHA Member

February 2024
Hello, I'm Pi.1415926535. I wanted to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions to Forest Hill, San Francisco have been undone because they appeared to be promotional. Advertising and using Wikipedia as a "soapbox" are against Wikipedia policy and not permitted; Wikipedia articles should be written objectively, using independent sources, and from a neutral perspective. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 18:52, 27 February 2024 (UTC)


 * Understood. A lot of what I added was factual in nature and objectively true, including with citation to a newspaper article. Regardless, the deletion I made should be put back. The source material regarding race restrictions has no citation to authority and is inaccurate. That entire portion of the post should be removed. FHA Member (talk) 22:05, 27 February 2024 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure that you understand. All of your edit was inappropriate for Wikipedia, for several reasons:
 * Your removal of the racial history of the nature was an highly inappropriate removal of cited information. The advertised racial restrictions are well-documented; I have added several additional citations both to newspaper ads and sources that discuss them. It took me 5 minutes to find the original source of the quote that you claim is "inaccurate". You provided no citations to support your claim that racial restrictions were never enforced in Forest Hill. (The FHA, which has a financial incentive to downplay its own racial history, would not be considered a reliable source for that information.)
 * The language that you added is clearly promotional and non-neutral in nature; see the relevant policy at WP:NPOV and a useful guide at MOS:WTW. Phrases like one of the safest and most desirable neighborhoods in San Francisco, truly feeling like a suburb even though it is nestled in the heart of the City and charming scenes of natural beauty are not consistent with the impartial voice that Wikipedia uses. All of th text you added would need to be completely rewritten to be acceptable for Wikipedia.
 * Copy-pasting text from other sources is generally not allowed on Wikipedia. Unless the source text is under a free license compatible with Wikipedia's license (which the vast majority of websites are not), copying text is a copyright violation.
 * If you are a Forest Hill homeowner/FHA member, you have a financial conflict of interest related to the article. In most cases, such a conflict of interest means you should not directly edit the article; you can propose changes on the article talk page for unaffiliated editors to consider. The relevant policy is at WP:COI; a "plain and simple" guide is here.
 * Pi.1415926535 (talk) 00:07, 28 February 2024 (UTC)