User talk:Astra Inclinant

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I notice that one of the first articles you edited 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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I have placed a request for edit on the page for St. Michael's Choir School. Does this request get put in a queue or do I need to in some way get an editor's attention to get it looked at?

No it does not require a queue or other form of way to get an editors attention. It will be left there until you or another editor sees it an decides to take action. I am not familiar with the subject so I cannot help you. Perhaps you could ask at the Teahouse.-Pending ^{(tell me I screwed up}

Teahouse talkback: you've got messages![edit]

Hello, Astra Inclinant. Your question has been answered at the Teahouse Q&A board. Feel free to reply there!
Please note that all old questions are archived after 2-3 days of inactivity. Message added by Arthur goes shopping (talk) 15:58, 13 January 2014 (UTC). (You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{teahouse talkback}} template).[reply]

Conflict of interest[edit]

Hello. Please, do not take this as a criticism of your work. I just want to explain you Wikipedia policies. Wikipedia is a community, and has it's rules (we call them WP:Policies). We all have to follow those policies in order to keep Wikipedia running. I want to point out two important hings:

First, as an employee of St. Michael's Choir School, you are in the conflict of interest when editing the page about that school. Wikipedia has policy about the conflict of interest (WP:COI). Under this policy, any kind of personal connection to the subject of the article is a conflict of interest. Since you are employed in the St. Michael's Choir School, this is an obvious case of the conflict of interest. Until now, you haven't made any edits to the article about the school, so you did not brake any rule. But you wrote here that you want to "fully update and expand our Wikipedia page". Under the WP:COI policy, you are not allowed to make any edits to that article except minor edits, and you are especially not allowed to "fully update" it. If you think something in the article needs to be changed, you may use the article's talk page to suggest changes, or the {{request edit}} template to request someone else make an edit.

Second, Wikipedia has a policy WP:U about usernames. Your username is contrary to this policy. This policy says that "usernames that are names of posts within organizations [...] are not permitted, as such a post may be held by different persons at different times" (see: WP:ISU). Your username is obviously in this category. It implies a post of archivist in the St. Michael's Choir School. Now, I understand that you are the only archivist, and that you do not intend to use this username after you leave the post, but rules are rules, and we have to follow them. So, if you are interested in editing Wikipedia, you should change your username (see: WP:CHU), and not edit any article with which you have a conflict of interest yourself. If you have any questions, feel free to ask me on my talk page. You may also reply me here, but in that case, leave a {{talkback}} message on my talk page, so that I know about it. Vanjagenije (talk) 16:40, 13 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I think it is too simple an interpretation of the WP:COI guideline to say that the user is "not allowed to make any edits to the article about the school ... except minor edits". –xeno^talk 18:39, 13 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I am attempting to find alternate routes to correcting the page and adding more extensive history and information. Please let me know if you have any suggestions. I have changed my username to be more in line with the guidelines and trying to figure out how to propose changes that other users can accept or reject on their merits. Astra Inclinant (talk) 18:43, 13 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I think your approach so far is fine. As you make edits, users will have the opportunity to review and make changes as is the wiki way.

Thank you for your contributions, and let me know if I can be of further assistance. –xeno^talk 18:56, 13 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Astra Inclinant. You have new messages at Vanjagenije's talk page.
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St. M edit request[edit]

Hello Kate. I've answered your now ancient edit request. Sorry to see it took so long. When it comes time to make another request, please be sure that your markup for the proposed change is 100% correct in terms of the WP:Manual of Style. For example, your first line ended with "programme.^[3]." This is wrong because of the second period mark. The editors who work on these edit requests are usually more experienced, but they do not want to do simple clean up for other editors if they can avoid the chore. Anyway, I've given you my provisional approval to go ahead with the changes you want, and I do hope you'll expand your abilities as a WP editor when you implement the changes. If you need more assistance from me, feel free to drop a message on my talk page. – S. Rich (talk) 07:19, 15 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Template usage[edit]

This documents what fields are available in the template. If you have further questions after reading, please feel free to leave me a note. --NeilN ^{talk to me} 14:03, 20 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Are these the only ones available for schools? The school has an artistic director as with, for example, the Canada's National Ballet School. Also, the director could be referred to as administrator, but I wonder if I can use alternate headings as with principal/head/etc. Appreciate your assistance.

Never mind, I think I figured it out! Once again, appreciate your assistance.Astra Inclinant (talk) 14:36, 20 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]