User talk:Ajbarry

BRD

Please review WP:BRD. Typically, we encourage editors to make bold edits. But when someone objects to those edits and reverts them, the next step is to discuss them and not to begin an edit war. So please revert your edit and begin a discussion in the article's Talk page. Thanks! ElKevbo (talk) 03:04, 25 April 2012 (UTC)

Thanks ElKevbo, its been a while since I was active as an editor, I appreciate the heads up RE proper precedure.

I've initiated a dialogue on the talk page, but it appears to be ill-used. The last addition was in Sept, then but for one in Aug it jumps back to the previous Dec. Since dialogue may be minimal if at all, I've left up the original edit for interested people to revise as needed. I'll look it over as well and try to cut down, etc. Please feel free to do the same, I would just appreciate it if you didn't remove the whole section in one fell swoop.

thanks again!

COI

Hello Ajbarry. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article College of Charleston, you may have a conflict of interest or close connection to the subject.

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For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. per this Nomoskedasticity (talk) 05:48, 25 April 2012 (UTC)

Thank you, Nomoskedasticity, for the constructive advice. I am a student at the College of Charleston, and I did intern at the Office in question. I tried to mimic the style of other portions of the CofC article, and tried to draw upon other sources for my content to avoid imparting much of my own style into the section. But I'm sure I am just used to writing for the Office, so I will gladly review the style guide you provided and make another attempt at a more distanced version of the section.

Thanks again! -ajbarry

Generally speaking, just being a student somewhere isn't considered a conflict of interest, BTW. Interning might or might not be considered one, although I wouldn't say so myself if it's a past internship. I have to be cautious myself with regard to the Gloucester County College article and conflicts of interest, BTW, so I sympathize! Allens (talk | contribs) 06:59, 25 April 2012 (UTC)

Your recent edits

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Thank you! Ajbarry (talk) 06:19, 25 April 2012 (UTC)