User talk:Sylvia.loomis

Hello, Sylvia, and welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your attempted improvements to the article The Rock Church (San Diego). However, you need to understand that you can't just dictate the way the article is going to read. You have deleted valid sources, rewritten the history, and added WP:PUFFERY, i.e, material that is intended to make the church look good. You have reverted all my changes and insisted on your own version. You cannot do that; you do not own the article, especially if (as I suspect) you are trying to make the page read the way that the church wants. The church does not own the article either. I will take a look in the morning and see what needs to be restored to the way it was. In the meantime, DO NOT WP:Edit war over this. Wikipedia works by WP:consensus and by policies, including such policies as WP:verifiability and WP:Neutrality. If you and I have differences of opinion about how the article should read or what should be included, we need to discuss it, either here on your user talk page, or on the article's talk page. Please note also that if you have a conflict of interest - for example, if you work for The Rock Church or are being paid to edit Wikipedia on their behalf - you need to say so. Wikipedia does permit WP:paid editing, but you have to declare it or risk being barred from editing. Thanks and I look forward to working with you on this article. You can reply here on your talk page; I will see it. --MelanieN (talk) 02:58, 5 May 2016 (UTC)
 * OK, well, to let you know, I have immediately deleted the promotional/directory type listings of the addresses and locations of each campus and thrift store, and the pastor at each site. Wikipedia is not a directory. If people want that kind of information they can go to the church's website, which is linked from this article. --MelanieN (talk) 03:05, 5 May 2016 (UTC)

Hi Melanie, my apologies. I am new to Wikipedia and did not look into the rules and I should have. I work for the Rock Church and was asked to update the content on Wikipedia with some current data as it is a bit outdated. I undestand if we cannot add the information about the different locations and their addresses. How can we go about having the information updated? Is that possible? Thanks. Sylvia.loomis (talk) 15:06, 5 May 2016 (UTC)Sylvia
 * Sylvia, thanks for your reply and for revealing your connection with the church. Per Wikipedia policy at WP:POV, your best approach as a representative of the church is to suggest on a talk page any substantive changes you think should be made, and let an uninvolved editor make actual changes to the article. You can make the suggestions at the article's talk page. I have worked extensively on that article and will be glad to help you update it, or any regular editor can help. We may or may not make the changes you suggested, because we will keep in mind Wikipedia's policies about neutral point of view and verifiability, as well as things to avoid.
 * Meanwhile here is something you could help me with: I noticed that there is not a Wikipedia article about The Rock Academy, but the school is entitled to one, so I am drafting an article. I could not find information about the size of the current student body or faculty. Can you show me a link to that information? --MelanieN (talk) 15:45, 5 May 2016 (UTC)

Hi Melanie, Thank you! I appreciate that! Next time, we want to make changes, I will contact you here! That would be awesome to have a Rock Academy page! I will get back to you with the information that you requested. Sylvia.loomis (talk) 17:27, 5 May 2016 (UTC)Sylvia