User talk:AtlasANE

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Hello, AtlasANE, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.

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In regards to Anthro New England's page and recent edits, this feedback from Drmies:

Hi there! I do understand these rules of Wikipedia. I am a member of ANE Staff - my username, AtlasANE (Atlas is my staff name) signifies this clearly - that was the intention.

I have made every intention to make unbiased and clear additions to the page for ANE - and the page followed the standards of other furry conventions on Wikipedia - see Midwest Furfest.

Drmies has made cuts to most all content on this event as a result of my latest additions to the page which I do feel are aggressive and reduce the information offered on this page. (See comments in revisions such as, 'is it' to the line mentioning that ANE is one of the largest furry conventions, with it being the ninth largest) AtlasANE (talk) 20:27, 10 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Because of your conflict of interest, you must stop making edits directly to the article. If you wish changes made, you must propose them on the article Talk page. If you continue to disrupt the article, you risk being blocked.--Bbb23 (talk) 20:53, 10 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, thank you for clarifying. AtlasANE (talk) 20:56, 10 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Bbb23 - I would like to confirm that I am blocked from directly editing the Anthro New England article due to being one of the staff members at said convention; regardless that I am making these edits on my own time, and of my own volition.

Is this correct? I wish to reconfirm as you said I must stop making direct edits, Drmies said I should consider to ensure edits are worked in.

Thank you! AtlasANE (talk) 22:13, 10 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Atlas, if you're getting conflicting messages from Drmies and me, just follow whatever Drmies says - he's better and smarter at this than I am.--Bbb23 (talk) 22:37, 10 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Drmies!

I've done as you requested and made edits to a userpage draft copy. I would like to hear your feedback, thank you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:AtlasANE/Anthro_New_England AtlasANE (talk) 22:13, 10 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Bbb23 is being silly--a rare moment. Atlas, I thought about your username and it seemed fine to me, but your edits were not. I don't understand all your comments, sorry. I did not block you, in general or from the article, and I did not revert your edits because you are associated with the club: I reverted you because that is not encyclopedic material, and I cut another part of the article for the same reason. We are not the organization's website (I didn't say your edits needed to be "worked in"), and that information was not of encyclopedic value. Thanks, Drmies (talk) 16:25, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Drmies - I completely understand, thank you for taking the time to clarify everything. AtlasANE (talk) 16:35, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sure thing. Here's my advice--and I am going to sound old fashioned--article writing should start with the sources (reliable, independent, secondary sources). Wikipedia writing is actually fundamentally boring: we are summmarizing what other have already said--that's the essence of Wikipedia as a tertiary source. So start by collecting that material. Good luck, Drmies (talk) 16:53, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]