User talk:Nmcneany

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Hello, Nmcneany, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.

I notice that one of the first articles you edited was American College of Healthcare Executives, 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. 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.

The 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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September 2012
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Hello, Nmcneany. 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 American College of Healthcare Executives, you may need to consider our guidance on conflicts of interest.

All editors are required to comply with Wikipedia's neutral point of view content policy. People who are very close to a subject often have a distorted view of it, which may cause them to inadvertently edit in ways that make the article either too flattering or too disparaging. People with a close connection to a subject are not absolutely prohibited from editing about that subject, but they need to be especially careful about ensuring their edits are verified by reliable sources and writing with as little bias as possible.

If you are very close to a subject, here are some ways you can reduce the risk of problems:


 * Avoid or exercise great caution when editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with.
 * Be cautious about deletion discussions. Everyone is welcome to provide information about independent sources in deletion discussions, but avoid advocating for deletion of articles about your competitors.
 * Avoid linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Spam).
 * Exercise great caution so that you do not accidentally breach Wikipedia's content policies.

Please familiarize yourself with relevant content policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, verifiability of information, and autobiographies.

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. -- Orange Mike &#x007C;  Talk  16:19, 21 September 2012 (UTC)

ACHE
Hi, your edits were reverted for a number of reasons, partly for the Conflict of Interest issue, but also because you added a significant amount of marketing and promotional language to the page. Please understand that we are an encyclopedia, and as such we follow encyclopedic standards, including but not limited to, Neutral Point of View. The best course of action for making simple factual corrections without going astray of COI would be to post your corrections to the article's talk page. I'll be happy to make factual corrections, for example removing the obsolete use of the term "affiliates", but we can't add back the marketing/promotional language. - Balph Eubank ✉ 16:19, 21 September 2012 (UTC)