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Managing a conflict of interest

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Information icon Hello, Amcdhlsch. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Hurst Lodge School (established 2020), you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:

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Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Tacyarg (talk) 12:06, 25 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I am the marketing manager for this school, the information provided on our page is inaccurate and concerns another school (HawleyHurst) which dissolved in 2020. Our school (Hurst Lodge) opened in 2020 and is therefore not connected to the information provided. We would need this page deleted and a new page created for us to provide accurate information!— Preceding unsigned comment added by Amcdhlsch (talkcontribs)

There is an article on the current school: Hurst Lodge School (established 2020). Changes about the new school should be to that article. Just because the old school is closed, that doesn't mean we should be deleting the history of it- it meets Wikipedia's notability guidelines as a school that existed for 70ish years and received much coverage in reliable sources during its existence. The Hurst Lodge School article clearly tells readers that "This article is about the school in Berkshire, closed in 2018. For the school of the same name in Surrey, opened in 2020, see Hurst Lodge School (established 2020)," so if readers want to read about the new school, they can click through from there. Joseph2302 (talk) 12:21, 25 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

In that case there should be 3 pages then, one for Hurst Lodge Ascot, one for HawleyHurst and one for Hurst Lodge Surrey to make amends accurate as the three schools are not connected as this information is implying

Hi, please sign your comments with four tildes (~). I am the editor who set up the new page for Hurst Lodge School (established 2020). This was in response to an editor replacing the content of the page for the older Hurst Lodge School​ with content copy/pasted from the new school's website. This is not allowed on Wikipedia for a few reasons: firstly content on Wikipedia should be neutral and not advertising or promotional, and secondly it is a copyright violation to paste text on Wikipedia fro another site unless the author of the text has made it copyright-free. I received advice on the WP Schools project page to create a new article called Hurst Lodge School (established 2020). I commented on Talk:Hurst Lodge School (established 2020)​ that the histories of the three schools (the former Hurst Lodge, HawleyHurst and the new Hurst Lodge) are a bit unclear but that the Independent Schools Inspectorate treats HawleyHurst and the new Hurst Lodge as one school.
As someone with a conflict of interest you should not normally edit the page for Hurst Lodge School (established 2020) directly, but post requests for changes on the article's Talk page. The links in the conflict of interest sections above should help you with this process.
Since I created the article on Hurst Lodge School (established 2020) it has been tagged for lack of notability. This is because of the lack of coverage in independent, reliable sources of the new school. If there are any references you are aware of we could add, I would encourage you to post them on the Talk page. Tacyarg (talk) 15:33, 25 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]