User talk:Annholds

Welcome![edit]

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

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Conflict of interest[edit]

Hello Annholds. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article The Emery/Weiner School, you may have a conflict of interest or close connection to the subject.

All editors are required to comply with Wikipedia's neutral point of view content policy. People who are very close to a subject often have a distorted view of it, which may cause them to inadvertently edit in ways that make the article either too flattering or too disparaging. People with a close connection to a subject are not absolutely prohibited from editing about that subject, but they need to be especially careful about ensuring their edits are verified by reliable sources and writing with as little bias as possible.

If you are very close to a subject, here are some ways you can reduce the risk of problems:

Avoid or exercise great caution when editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with.
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Note that I said edit carefully, not don't edit at all. That's also why I recommended discussing the changes on the talk page, or at least explaining them with an edit summary. Leave administrators to guess what you're doing, and sometimes we guess wrong. :) —C.Fred (talk) 01:51, 12 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

advertising and NPOV[edit]

Hi Annholds, the information you added on The Emery/Weiner School is unsourced, given from a non-neutral point of view, and appears to be effectively a recruiting brochure for the school. It does not meet the standards for encyclopedic content on a school article. For a guideline of material that should appear, see WP:WPSCH/AG. tedder (talk) 02:22, 12 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

All I did was add back what was already on the page before student edits started screwing everything up, so I don't get why you would take that down. Go back and look at revisions from February; that's where I pulled the information from.............Annholds (talk) 02:33, 12 May 2012 (UTC)annholds[reply]

I don't understand why you changed the "History" text, too, because now things are misspelled. Annholds (talk) 02:36, 12 May 2012 (UTC)annholds[reply]

- I also don't see how having information about the curriculum is any different than the stuff that's up on similar pages: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._John's_School_(Texas)#Curriculum.Annholds (talk) 02:40, 12 May 2012 (UTC)annholds[reply]

Feel free to fix spelling in the history. Unfortunately, having inappropriate content up for months doesn't make it correct, and just because other pages aren't perfect doesn't mean this page shouldn't be improved. Please, your conflict of interest is bordering on page ownership; the Emery/Weiner school does not own their page on Wikipedia, content given on it should be neutral and from reliable sources. The 5 pillars of Wikipedia give an idea of the foundation behind the guidelines, which will lead you to the principles I've been linking to (neutral point of view, referenced/verifiable content, conflict of interest). If nothing else, read the article guidelines for schools to get an idea of how you can productively add content to your school. tedder (talk) 04:49, 12 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]