User talk:Rj.seward

Hello, Rj.seward. 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 Wheeling Jesuit University, you may have a conflict of interest or close connection to the subject. In particular, you are an assistant professor of Information Sciences at Wheeling Jesuit University.

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.  Velella  Velella Talk 20:17, 28 August 2013 (UTC)
 * I am flattered that you think I am an assistant professor of Information Sciences at Wheeling Jesuit University but no, I am just lowly data guy. I initially edited the WJU page since it was severely outdated and contained several inaccuracies and I was just trying to set the record straight. --User:Rj.seward
 * Update August 2016: I am now the Institutional Research person at Wheeling Jesuit University. I understand that this creates a potential COI but I will try my best to be impartial in my edits to the Wikipedia page for WJU. Right now I am attempting to bring the page up to the standards outlined in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Universities .--User:Rj.seward