User talk:Baldwin24

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Thank you!--Baldwin24 (talk) 19:54, 9 February 2011 (UTC)

February 2011

Welcome to Wikipedia. If you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article William P. Leahy, you may have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, edits where there is a conflict of interest, or where such a conflict might reasonably be inferred, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:

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I am reading through all of this now and find it very helpful. Thank you --Baldwin24 (talk) 20:58, 9 February 2011 (UTC)

Just confused about an editing change that was made to an edit I had made. I am working on this page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_P._Leahy The proper religious designation for Fr. William P. Leahy is William P. Leahy, S.J. as seen on the official wikipedia Society of Jesus page - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_of_Jesus. However, an editor has removed this designation. I object to the removal of the title initials - and to be consistent throughout this site believe an argument can be made to maintain them. Should I change them back (I have contacted the editor directly) --Baldwin24 (talk) 19:44, 9 February 2011 (UTC)

(I have moved this down - it is simplest if new posts go at the bottom of a talk page, it saves people having to hunt about to see which is a new addition.)

The way Wikipedia works is described in WP:BOLD, revert, discuss cycle: if you think a change will improve the encyclopedia, be BOLD and make it. If it is then reverted, do not re-revert, thus possibly starting an edit war; instead, discuss the change on the article talk page, and try to reach WP:Consensus with other editors. If you cannot, there are WP:Dispute resolution processes available.

In your case, I will qualify the BOLD bit, because you have declared an interest, in that you are editing on behalf of BostonCollege; for all but the most uncontroversial changes to do with the College or its staff, you should therefore propose them on the talk page, declaring your interest, and gain consensus before making them - see WP:Best practices for editors with conflicts of interest. JohnCD (talk) 20:00, 9 February 2011 (UTC)