User talk:Taryn76

May 2023
Hello, I'm MrOllie. Wikipedia is written by people who have a wide diversity of opinions, but we try hard to make sure articles have a neutral point of view. Your recent edit seemed less than neutral and has been removed. If you think this was a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. MrOllie (talk) 13:03, 11 May 2023 (UTC)

Please do not add commentary, your own point of view, or your own personal analysis to Wikipedia articles. Doing so violates Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy and breaches the formal tone expected in an encyclopedia. Thank you. MrOllie (talk) 13:16, 11 May 2023 (UTC)

One of your recent edits has been removed in whole or in part, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted material, including text or images from print publications or from other websites, without an appropriate and verifiable license. All such contributions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images&mdash;you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously, and persistent violators of our copyright policy will be blocked from editing. See Copying text from other sources for more information. MrOllie (talk) 13:17, 11 May 2023 (UTC)

Please stop. If you continue to violate Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy by adding commentary and your personal analysis into articles, as you did at U.S. Green Building Council, you may be blocked from editing. And, please do not copy material from elsewhere into Wikipedia. DanCherek (talk) 13:35, 11 May 2023 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, Taryn76. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:


 * avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization, clients, or competitors;
 * propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the request edit template);
 * disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see Conflict of interest);
 * avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see Spam);
 * do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. DanCherek (talk) 13:37, 11 May 2023 (UTC)


 * Hello, thank you for letting me know. I didn't realize that working at the organization created a COI. I am an employee of the U.S. Green Building Council and will disclose that on future edits. Taryn76 (talk) 14:46, 12 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Please read the links in the above message carefully. Disclosures should be made in a particular way that is explained therein. Also note that disclosure is a starting point - you must also comply with the rest of Wikipedia's policies and guidelines as well. In particular, replacing our articles with promotional text or removing criticism is not appropriate. Instead of editing these articles directly, if you have factual updates to suggest you may make them on the article's associated talk pages for action by unconflicted editors. There are instructions for doing that available in the above links as well. MrOllie (talk) 14:54, 12 May 2023 (UTC)
 * I would like clarification on how the text I added was promotional. The text was neutral and carefully created to be unbiased. I am happy to make suggested edits rather than direct edits but it sounds like even editing the descriptive language of our organization is considered "promotional" when in fact the description is out of date on this platform. Taryn76 (talk) 15:17, 12 May 2023 (UTC)