User talk:Thethinwire

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Hello, Thethinwire, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful: Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing 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 and a volunteer will visit you here shortly. Again, welcome! JohnCD (talk) 16:53, 18 January 2015 (UTC)
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ASA College
I have restored three paragraphs which you removed because they "reflect poorly on the institution". Wikipedia is not here to be the College's PR platform, and this content is reliably sourced and relevant. However, it was not appropriate for the lede paragraph, and I have placed it lower in the article. If you think it should be removed, explain why on the article talk page and try to achieve WP:Consensus with other users - see BOLD, revert, discuss cycle.

No doubt you are User:ASACollege with a new, individual account. That's fine, it's what you were advised to do, but in relation to ASA College you still have a Conflict of interest, and you need to read that page carefully, and also the Plain and simple conflict of interest guide. In summary, don't edit directly on articles where you have a COI, except for absolutely uncontroversial matters of fact, but make suggestions on article talk pages for uninvolved users to consider. Also, note particularly that in any COI editing you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's Terms of Use (and in some jurisdictions by laws against covert advertising) to declare your interest. In that context, it may seem odd that you were not allowed to use the name ASACollege, but the point there is that user accounts must be for individuals only, so that usernames implying a group or organisation are not permitted. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 16:53, 18 January 2015 (UTC)