User talk:Whistle86

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Please, do not vandalize pages as you did with this edit to SEC Office of the Whistleblower. If you continue to do so, you will be blocked from editing. talk→  WPPilot   04:59, 18 November 2014 (UTC)

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It would be helpful if you would please clarify what edits were considered to be vandalism. I made a few edits to the SEC Whistleblower Office page to provide additional, relevant information. I added a footnote that provided additional information about the largest award made by the SEC Whistleblower Office and a link to an article that discusses a major issue the SEC Whistleblower Office faces, and I removed a link that listed Jordan Thomas as a former director of the SEC Whistleblower Office because he was never director of the SEC Whistleblower Office and never worked in the SEC Whistleblower Office.

All of those changes were made to give readers relevant and accurate information and were made in good faith. The Wikipedia: Vandalism page states: “Vandalism is any addition, removal, or change of content, in a deliberate attempt to compromise the integrity of Wikipedia. Examples of typical vandalism are adding irrelevant obscenities and crude humor to a page, illegitimately blanking pages, and inserting obvious nonsense into a page. Abusive creation or usage of user accounts and IP addresses may also constitute vandalism. Even if misguided, willfully against consensus, or disruptive, any good-faith effort to improve the encyclopedia is not vandalism.”

I don’t see how my edits fall into any of those categories. Thanks for your help.

Whistle86 (talk) 15:19, 24 November 2014 (UTC)
 * , I do not see any evidence that your edits were undone as vandalism. As near as I can tell, you simply added an unnecessary reference (the statement was already verified) and a "See Also" link that may or may not have been related to the article as a whole (I only skimmed it). The editor that undid your changes should have listed a reason why they undid them (which are the reasons I've just given), but unless it's specifically marked as vandalism consider the undos to be done in good faith (just as your additions were done in good faith). Primefac (talk) 19:15, 24 November 2014 (UTC)

Hello 86. I made the edits, as mentioned before, in good faith. Thompson was added to this Wiki when a press release was found that named him, as a former director of something to do with the program. Wikipedia has a policy about people that are considered "too close to the subject" in that it is required to have them edit articles other then those that the subject is attached to. Your comment "Jordan Thomas was not the SEC Program Director)" inline in the editors summary as well as above suggests that you work at the SEC OTWB, and if that is the case, you need to elaborate on your bias, and allow other editors to weigh in. Hope that helps, Cheers! talk→   WPPilot   19:15, 26 December 2014 (UTC)