User talk:Wharana

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I notice that one of the first articles you edited was [[National War Memorial (New Zealand)]], 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. Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

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Wharana (talk) 23:42, 12 May 2013 (UTC)Thanks for your feedback. I edited the National War Memorial as some of the information is outdated, particularly the section about the Memorial Park being completed in 2008. The Ministry has recently set up a facebook page about the Memorial Park which is due to be opened on Anzac Day 2015. The URL is https://www.facebook.com/NationalWarMemorialPark and I've also taken details from http://www.mch.govt.nz/nz-identity-heritage/national-war-memorial/national-war-memorial-park. I'm new to Wikipedia, so any assistance about updating this page is appreciated as our existing NWM facebook page is taken from this Wikipedia profile.

Fran


 * Hello Fran. When you say "The Ministry" I assume that you're talking about the Ministry for Culture and Heritage? They have encyclopaedia skills in-house at Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand, I suggest that you have a coffee with someone from that team to get a handle on what an encyclopaedia is meant to look like. In short, look for secondary sources and tertiary sources (i.e. nothing published by parties involved in the work). Look for balance points of view that avoid recentism. If the old information (which was sourced to reliable sources) is out of date (or even wrong), you need reliable sources to contrast the existing reliable sources. In particular removing the well-sourced content on the work of a previous government and replacing it with content on the work of the current government will not be tolerated. Stuartyeates (talk) 00:17, 13 May 2013 (UTC)


 * Yes I do work at the Ministry and I apologise for the mistakes made. My main interest is updating the text about the National War Memorial Park which currently states that it is due to be completed in 2008.  There is a useful article on Stuff at http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/7428737/Key-revives-war-memorial-for-capital which provides a 2012 update on the Memorial Park project. It would be great if text from this article could feature on the page. I was hoping to add our new NWM Park face book page URL at the end of the entry(https://www.facebook.com/NationalWarMemorialPark) as I believe face book copies Wikipedia profiles and we are unable to edit the existing National War Memorial page set up earlier by face book so we are hoping to draw traffic to our new page which will be updated on a regular basis.Wharana (talk) 23:32, 13 May 2013 (UTC)


 * Copying text from that a newspaper article would be a breach of copyright, which we're very particular on. You can copy facts (which aren't copyrightable) but not text. Editing wikipedia to draw traffic to you facebook page is also strictly prohibited, see WP:PROMOTION. Stuartyeates (talk) 23:54, 13 May 2013 (UTC)