User talk:MHammondatNCS

Welcome!
Hello and welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions. We appreciate encyclopedic contributions, but some of your recent contributions, such as your edit to the page North Cross School, have removed content without a good reason to do so. Content on Wikipedia should not be removed just because you disagree with it or because you think it's wrong, unless the claim is not verifiable. Instead, you should consider expanding the article with noteworthy and verifiable information of your own, citing reliable sources when you do so. If you'd like to experiment with the wiki's syntax, please do so in the sandbox rather than in articles. The following links will help you begin editing on Wikipedia:
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The Wikipedia tutorial is a good place to start learning about Wikipedia. If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump or ask me on my talk page. By the way, you can sign your name on Talk and discussion pages using four tildes, like this: &#126;&#126;&#126;&#126; (the software will replace them with your signature and the date). Again, welcome! Taking Out The Trash (talk) 22:23, 10 January 2023 (UTC)

Conflict of interest, promotional editing, and related matters

 * Here is some information about Wikipedia policies, guidelines, etc, that you need to be aware of.
 * A Wikipedia article should be written from a neutral point of view, and promotional material of any sort is not permitted. Writing such as "strives to promote personal integrity, empathy, and responsibility to self and community", to quote just one example from your editing, is not acceptable.
 * If you are connected to someone or something you have written about (in your case, the school) then you should be aware that Wikipedia's conflict of interest guideline discourages you from writing about that subject. The main reason for that is that experience over the years indicates that editors with such a connection to a subject they are writing about are likely to find it very difficult, or even impossible, to stand back from their writing and see how it will look from the detached perspective of an outsider, so that they are likely to write in ways that look promotional to others, even if they sincerely think they are writing in a neutral way. Also, if your editing forms all or part of work for which you are paid, whether as an employee, as a contractor, or in any other capacity, the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use require you to state who is paying you, and what your connection to them is. (To avoid the possibility of a surprisingly common misunderstanding, editing is regarded as part of paid work if it is done in your capacity of an employee or as part of work to a contract, whether or not a specific payment earmarked for editing Wikipedia is made.)
 * I advise you to take notice, because an administrator may block you from editing if you are seen to be not complying with the relevant policies and guidelines. The most important part is the bit about paid editing, as that is part if the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use, and therefore a legal requirement, not just a Wikipedia policy. JBW (talk) 11:51, 11 January 2023 (UTC)