User talk:YorktonFilm

Thanks for the message; I've already requested a change of user name based on your suggestion. I am hoping to establish a better detailed page on our festival, as we have had a historian work with the Saskatchewan archives to generate a series of historical vignettes for our use. I don't think this would represent a conflict of interest, as we will provide links to the historian's work to document the information presented, but can you confirm to me that such changes to our page would not be removed as a potential COI?

Thanks!

(YorktonFilm (talk) 22:49, 24 July 2013 (UTC))


 * If it is of some reassurance, changes are judged on their individual merit rather than being blanket removed because of COI. So very promotional marketing puffery is likely to be swiftly deleted, but other more factual changes based on the information in recognised and published reliable sources such as newspapers is generally left. Obviously it is still recognised as problematic to be editing an article on a subject that you have a connection with, for more details please see WP:PSCOI. I have a concern about the content that you are proposing to add however in that it sounds a lot like original research (for more on this see WP:OR) - basically if the information presented hasn't appeared in a reliable published source then it might well not be appropriate for wikipedia and another forum might be more appropriate for your purposes. --nonsense ferret  22:59, 24 July 2013 (UTC)

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