Talk:Manchester Library & Information Service

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COI tag[edit]

Dear all, I would please like some advice on how to alter this article so that it no longer requires a conflict of interest warning at the top of the page. As an employee of the Manchester Library & Information Service, I have mainly used information taken from our web pages within the main council website. I have tried to remove any facts that may appear disputable. What else do I need to use or add?—Preceding unsigned comment added by SeanJamesJoyce (talk • contribs)

The main thing that you need to do is to stop editing it! As an employee, you have a conflict of interest. As an article sourced mainly from the council's website, the article lacks proper independent sourcing, which is a requirement for a Wikipedia article. The COI issue isn't that anything you say in the article is incorrect. The issue is that as a COI editor, you may unconciously select the facts to be presented so as to give a positive article.

I would suggest that you take the following actions;

Add some relevant independent sources to the article.
Leave the article for others to edit. Once the article has been modified sufficiently by uninvolved editors, the COI tag will cease to be appropriate, and will be removed

Mayalld (talk) 11:15, 22 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Services of a similar quality[edit]

Having lived in Manchester for a few years, I love this service to the point of obsession. Being able to reserve and order books from any of the 23 libraries and having them delivered right to the library next to you, all for free, is very good. I'm so addicted to this service that one of my criteria for choosing places for living in the future is the presence of a comparable service with comparable or better quality (I'd go broke quick if I had to buy instead of borrow books). I'm sure there are many places with services as good. What cities in the UK/US have similar services? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.29.189.73 (talk) 15:07, 29 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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