User talk:Secretmember12345

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I noticed that one of the first articles you edited was Ashton College, 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.&#32;Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place  before the question. Again, welcome! Drmies (talk) 21:24, 28 October 2022 (UTC)


 * Hello Drmies, thank you for getting in touch - I appreciate the direction you've given me. As I mentioned before, this is my first Wikipedia update.
 * To address the third section of what you wrote - this account is only managed by one person, and will only be managed by one person. Second, to be transparent, I'm a full-time employee of Ashton College, but I'm not being paid any specific amount for this editing this Wikipedia page.
 * Is there anything else I should address before sending you my preferred edits? Primarily what I'm trying to do is just edit which courses are shown on this page, as that list is quite outdated. As well, whomever wrote the article leaned into us primarily enrolling international students so they they could get Canadian credentials, which is absolutely not our primary focus. Secretmember12345 (talk) 21:49, 28 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Hi, please create your user page (currently a red link) with a short statement describing your financial conflict of interest / affiliation. "I'm a full-time employee of Ashton College, but I'm not being paid any specific amount for this editing this Wikipedia page." sounds fine. Keep it clear and concise, avoid making it look like promotion. It's a more-or-less mandatory disclosure that should happen before any further edits are made.
 * Afterwards, you may like to open Talk:Ashton College, the talk page of the article. I have added an orange information box at the top now, allowing you to click the text "request corrections or suggest content". It's a link to what you're probably looking for then.
 * Best regards, ~ ToBeFree (talk) 22:36, 28 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Thank you very much! Your user page looks good to me. Happy editing! ~ ToBeFree (talk) 22:49, 28 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Thank you!
 * I've just tried to do a "request corrections or suggest content" under the talk page of Ashton College, but I received another "potentially unconstructive" error. Secretmember12345 (talk) 22:55, 28 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Yeah, you tripped an edit filter designed to prevent corporate spam. As I noted over there, the kind of information you wanted to add is not considered detail appropriate for an encyclopedia. I would encourage you to look at a few of the articles listed at Good articles/Social sciences and society to see what kinds of information are appropriate in articles about universities. —Compassionate727 (T·C) 21:44, 1 November 2022 (UTC)
 * I'm going to reply to your response at false positives over here, as that thread has been archived already. To answer your question: you are free to propose any such changes you like. However, asking to remove sourced content is generally not well-received unless you can contend that the claims are outright inaccurate (by producing other sources that directly contradict it) or giving too much weight to something. Especially for an article of this size, you should instead find other sources that support the information you want included and propose adding it. FWIW, I already updated the article to more closely reflect what the source says, which might alleviate what you were concerned about, but if you want to make further changes, you'll need those sources. —Compassionate727 (T·C) 09:53, 2 November 2022 (UTC)