User talk:John Benn

Hello, John Benn. 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.

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Wikipedia is not a place for businesses, schools, or any other organisations to publish their own promotional material, such as school prospectuses. Such trivia as the time of day at which teaching begins, the location of the school's assembly hall, the fact that the fives court has recently been enclosed, etc etc, may be of interest to prospective pupils and their parents, but it is not of interest to the general reader of an encyclopaedia. The school's web site is the place for that, not Wikipedia. Also, use of Wikipedia for promotion of any sort is contrary to Wikipedia policy. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 15:39, 28 February 2014 (UTC)