User talk:Mettevanderheide

Welcome!
Hello, Mettevanderheide, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:
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Please do not remove maintenance templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Shanghai American School, without resolving the problem that the template refers to, or giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your removal of this template does not appear constructive, and has been reverted. Thank you. Melcous (talk) 21:19, 3 December 2017 (UTC)

A few things about Shanghai American School
Hi, Mr./Mrs. Van der Heide! Welcome to Wikipedia! As others said, the purpose here is not promotion. I expect you to read the Manual of Style to see how articles should be.

A few things I restored:
 * The location of the campuses, since that is something that readers expect to see in the article
 * The campus photo of the Puxi building

Do you know of major newspapers or academic journals that talk about the SAS? Those articles can help build a quality article on the school.

Thanks, WhisperToMe (talk) 07:25, 9 December 2017 (UTC)

Conflict of interest editing
Hello, Mettevanderheide. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. Editing for the purpose of advertising or promotion is not permitted. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:


 * avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, company, organization or competitors;
 * propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (see the request edit template);
 * disclose your COI when discussing affected articles (see WP:DISCLOSE);
 * avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see WP:SPAM);
 * do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID).

Also please note that editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Melcous (talk) 10:47, 12 December 2017 (UTC)

Editing a page about your employer without disclosure may be a violation of wikipedia's terms
Hello Mettevanderheide. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, and that you have not complied with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. Paid advocacy is a category of conflict of interest (COI) editing that involves being compensated by a person, group, company or organization to use Wikipedia to promote their interests. Undisclosed paid advocacy is prohibited by our policies on neutral point of view and what Wikipedia is not, and is an especially egregious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to Black hat SEO.

Paid advocates are very strongly discouraged from direct article editing, and should instead propose changes on the talk page of the article in question if an article exists, and if it does not, from attempting to write an article at all. At best, any proposed article creation should be submitted through the articles for creation process, rather than directly.

Regardless, if you are receiving or expect to receive compensation for your edits, broadly construed, you are  required by the Wikimedia Terms of Use to disclose your employer, client and affiliation. You can post such a mandatory disclosure to your user page at User:Mettevanderheide. The template Paid can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form:. If I am mistaken – you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits – please state that in response to this message. Otherwise, please provide the required disclosure. In either case, please do not edit further until you answer this message. Melcous (talk) 11:28, 12 December 2017 (UTC)

Thank you. I will look into this matter. All is done with the best intentions and I appreciate your polite and respectful suggestions.

Copying licensed material requires proper attribution
Hi. I see in a recent addition to Shanghai American School you included material from a webpage that is available under a CC-by-SA Licence (your addition has since been removed). That's okay, but you have to give attribution so that our readers are made aware that you copied the prose rather than wrote it yourself. Please make sure that you follow this legal requirement when copying from compatibly-licensed material in the future. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 12:27, 12 December 2017 (UTC)