User talk:PABallet

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

I notice that one of the first articles you edited 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. To start creating a draft article, just click your user name at the top of the screen when you are logged in, and edit that page as you would any other. 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. It is also worth noting that Wikipedia generally does not allow editors to have usernames which specifically link them to one company or corporation. If your username does have such a name, it would be advisable for you to request a change of username.

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In addition to the obvious conflict of interest implied by your username, the content you added is a clear copyright violation of the PA Ballet website. We are not allowed to use copyright material from other websites. Also Wikipedia is not a mirror of other web sites so there is no point in just copying what has been written elsewhere anyway (occasional short quotes with clear inline attribution are OK, if they make a point well for example). In addition you removed the content already added by other editors including a least one reference.

If, let us suppose, the article is substantially out of date and nobody seems to have noticed you can, for example, request help on the article's talk page. There were no edit summaries accompanying your edits so it is difficult to see what you were trying to do. Please always add clear edit summaries.

It is not forbidden for you to edit an article you are involved with, you just have to be really, really careful! --Mirokado (talk) 20:37, 21 September 2011 (UTC)

I have also looked at the result of just your changes to the list of dancers, but you have ended up with 7 principals whereas the PA Ballet reference currently lists only six, so I'm afraid I can't restore just those changes. If you do update the list of dancers, which would be uncontroversial and welcome, please make sure it matches the reference and update the "as of" date at the start of the section and the accessdate in the reference. Thanks. --Mirokado (talk) 22:15, 21 September 2011 (UTC)