User talk:Volunteerintern

About COI
Hello Volunteerintern. If you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Museum of Contemporary Craft, you may have a conflict of interest or close connection to the subject.

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 following the 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. Valfontis (talk) 22:56, 30 August 2011 (UTC)

About edit summaries
Hi there. When editing an article on Wikipedia there is a small field labeled "Edit summary" under the main edit-box. It looks like this:

The text written here will appear on the Recent changes page, in the page revision history, on the diff page, and in the watchlists of users who are watching that article. See m:Help:Edit summary for full information on this feature.

Filling in the edit summary field greatly helps your fellow contributors in understanding what you changed, so please always fill in the edit summary field. If you are adding a section, please do not just keep the previous section's header in the Edit summary field – please fill in your new section's name instead. Thank you. Valfontis (talk) 22:56, 30 August 2011 (UTC)

About show preview
Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. In the future, it is recommended that you use the preview button before you save; this helps you find any errors you have made, reduces edit conflicts, and prevents clogging up recent changes and the page history. Thank you. Valfontis (talk) 22:56, 30 August 2011 (UTC)

August 2011
Welcome to Wikipedia. It might not have been your intention, but your recent edit removed content from Template:Oregon-school-stub. When removing content, please specify a reason in the edit summary and discuss edits that are likely to be controversial on the article's talk page. If this was a mistake, don't worry; the content has been restored, as you can see from the page history. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia, and if you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. jcgoble3 (talk) 00:24, 31 August 2011 (UTC)

Touching base
Hello! I noticed that you are predominately editing one article, and that you have not created (added information to) your user page yet. While others have already pointed out the issues of Conflict of Interest and have made suggestions about edit summaries, I wanted to touch base and let you know there is a community within Wikipedia known as GLAM, (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums), that helps cultural institutions share their resources with Wikipedia effectively.

I'd be happy to answer any questions you might have. But some resources to check include: GLAM getting started and our main webpage at glamwiki.org. Portions of each are still in draft form, but it should be a good start for you.LoriLee (talk) 14:10, 31 August 2011 (UTC)