User talk:Hjayburns

February 2016
This user is currently unblocked. Hello, Hjayburns! You were briefly blocked from editing Wikipedia due to a misdirection of vandalism that occurred on Bates College. You still seem to have a connective conflict of interest with the subject of the article, so please feel free to discuss on the talk page anything you'd like to add or remove. You have been unblocked and sorry for the inconvenience. Happy editing! Yorkshiremany (talk) 22:59, 10 February 2016 (UTC)

March 2015
Hello, Hjayburns. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest or close connection to the subject. ElKevbo (talk) 18:46, 21 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Thank you, Kevbo. My work at Bates College includes attemption to draw attention to issues or problems with the Bates College article but without crossing the clear lines established by the Wikipedia community of users. I've appreciated the support thus far. Hjayburns (talk) 14:58, 16 November 2015 (UTC)

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Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or to ask for help on your talk page, and a volunteer should respond shortly. Again, welcome! <-- the text to up to arrow is a canned message, but I really do want to welcome you. I appreciate your interest about the Bates College article and your up-front disclosure of association with it. Please see Talk:Bates College where I comment fairly extensively. I ask there to have discussion about the article stay with the article, i.e. at its Talk page. Maybe I over-state it there: it's also true that the discussion is about more than one thing, and it could be held here at your Talk page, too. In general, anyhow, editors with a COI often suggest changes by separate sections for each change, and it does seem useful to have a running log of those and other comments all there. Again, welcome, and while I will "watchlist" here and will probably see any reply here, feel free to contact me at my talk page any time to get my attention. cheers, -- do ncr  am  02:48, 14 November 2015 (UTC)