User talk:LongyBard

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April 2012
Hello LongyBard. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Longy School of Music, you may have a conflict of interest or close connection to the subject.

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For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Thank you. Hertz1888 (talk) 15:50, 2 April 2012 (UTC)

Longy School of Music and your user name
Thank you for updating the article, but you cannot use a Wikipedia article as an alternative form of press release for Longy. You removed the only references that the article had concerning the merger going through and the joint Masters program with Bard. I have re-added some updated references and contextualized. If, as your user name suggests, you are closely affiliated with Longy, I strongly recommend that you have the school's official site updated to verify what you have just added to the article. At the moment it says nothing whatsoever about the name change, let along giving a date of April 1st. All information on Wikipedia must be verified.

Whether or not you are affiliated with Longy, I strongly suggest you also change your user name.


 * 1) Unambiguous use of a name or URL of a company, group or product as a username is generally not permitted.
 * 2) Your account cannot represent a group of people. You may wish to create a new account with a username that represents only you. Alternatively, you may consider changing your username to avoid giving the impression that your personal account is being used for promotional purposes.

If you are professionally affiliated with this organization in any way, please read Conflict of interest for guidance when editing under these circumstances. You can also find information on these issues at our frequently asked questions for organizations. Regardless of whether you change your name or create a new account, you are not exempted from the guidelines concerning editing where you have a conflict of interest. Best wishes, Voceditenore (talk) 16:39, 2 April 2012 (UTC)