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Hello, 69.85.242.18, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like this place and decide to stay. Here are some pages you might find helpful:

Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or click here to ask a question on your talk page. Again, welcome! BiologicalMe (talk) 23:46, 20 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Avoiding the appearance of conflicts of interest[edit]

This IP address has been used to edit the article on Pensacola Christian College. There are several things to keep in mind. First, most editors will have little knowledge of the place, so what is common knowledge for someone editing from the school will be obscure to most editors. Among the guiding principles of Wikipedia are that:

edits should have enough supporting information that another editor will be able to verify that the information is correct;
content should be generally notable as demonstrated by outside sources rather than insider knowledge/opinion; and
should not be promotion either for the college as a whole or for a subdivision/group.

While it is very likely that insiders might be well equipped to identify errors, reasonable caution should be employed. As an example, this IP recently changed the motto. While I only did a very cursory search, I could not find either version. If a source is provided, other editors can figure out how to fix tampering. Accreditation for the nursing school was added without a source. I verified it with an in-house publication, but an outside source (for example, the accrediting organization) is what I will look for when I sit down to review it. For edits beyond basic data, one of the best ways to avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest is to bring your concerns and perhaps a proposed edit to the article's talk page. When your IP address is in-house, it will generally be better to ask for permission (or help) than forgiveness. Enough attempts at promotional editing are made on Wikipedia that editors are very quick to react to good faith editing that appears to be self-promotional. BiologicalMe (talk) 23:46, 20 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

November 2016[edit]

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