User talk:Rebgvwiki

Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver
Hi thanks for the cleanup on the REBGV page. I assume from your user name that you are affiliated with the board? Perhaps just a coincidence? I don't know if the other editor, Jonfriesen, who has been editing the article, is affiliated with the board or if he is a random person with an unusually strong interest in the page?

This article has been quite the little pest over the last few weeks. And unfortunately, these edits have become the only things done on the article over the last several weeks. Through no fault of the board itself of course. I am only involved in this as the Jonfriesen's edits happened to come up while I was spam patrolling. External links happen to be my beat. In any case, I hope that you do enjoy editing. In the event that you are affiliated with the Board, I do want to make you aware of the conflict of interest guidelines. I do urge you to read them if you plan to edit some more. Its not where I tend to spend much of my time, so its hard for me to lay out exactly what the COI people look for. However, they can be as zealous as I tend to be on the linkspam end. Nothing says you cannot edit. But the guidelines will help ensure that you are able to edit without creating any suspicion regarding your content.

Again, thanks and welcome.

TastyPoutine talk (if you dare) 01:43, 17 June 2009 (UTC)

Hi TastyPoutine, thank you for your comments and your diligent anti-spamming work. Jon Friesen does not represent the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver.

As you correctly assumed, I do represent the REBGV. The aim of any material we add or edit is to make sure the information is accurate using the conflict of interest guidelines Wikipedia has established. We welcome any comments either through this talk page or by contacting us through our website.

Cheers, Rebgvwiki (talk) 21:31, 19 June 2009 (UTC)