User talk:MarlboroughSchool

Hi and thanks for the explanation.! I do indeed work for the School, but the only information I posted was strictly quantitative ... I just want the page to reflect the latest numbers. I now understand and appreciate the conflict of interest policies, so I'm not expressing (nor would I) any opinions. What's the best thing to do moving forward? Thanks for your consideration!
 * The first thing you should do is request a username change at this link. Usernames like MarlboroughSchool are not allowed, but something like Frank at Marlborough School (if you want to show that you're associated, and your name is Frank) or any other non-associated username (Frank123, Puppiesandrainbows, ILoVeWiKiPeDiA) is fine.


 * After that, if you're being paid to edit on behalf of the school, you have to disclose that:
 * "...you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. You must make that disclosure in at least one of the following ways:
 * a statement on your user page,
 * a statement on the talk page accompanying any paid contributions, or
 * a statement in the edit summary accompanying any paid contributions." -From the Terms of Use


 * That's a pretty intense way of saying, if you're getting paid for this, say something about it somewhere.
 * Finally, once you're ready to edit under your new, disclosed name, keep in mind that anything that might be controversial about your school's article should be discussed on its talk page before you do anything about it. If you have any doubts about the neutrality of what you're writing, ask someone—either on the talk page of the article or by using help me here again. You can also leave me a message and I'll do the best I can to help you out. If you have any questions, you know where to find me! &mdash; Lucas Thoms 22:51, 18 July 2014 (UTC)

Welcome!
Hello, MarlboroughSchool, and welcome to Wikipedia!&#32;Thank you for your contributions.

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited was Marlborough School (Los Angeles), which appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article.&#32;Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

To reduce the chances of your contributions being undone, you might like to draft your revised article before submission, and then ask me or any other editor to proofread it. See our help page on userspace drafts for more details. If the page you created has already been deleted from Wikipedia, but you want to save the content from it to use for that draft, don't hesitate to ask anyone from this list and they will copy it to your user page.

One firm rule we do have in connection with conflicts of interest is that accounts used by more than one person will unfortunately be blocked from editing. Wikipedia generally does not allow editors to have usernames which imply that the account belongs to a company or corporation. If you have a username like this, you should request a change of username or create a new account. (A name that identifies the user as an individual within a given organization may be OK.)

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