User talk:Idkennedy74

April 2014

Hello, I'm Excirial. Wikipedia is written by people who have a wide diversity of opinions, but we try hard to make sure articles have a neutral point of view. Your recent edit to Association for a More Just Society seemed less than neutral to me, so I removed it for now. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. Excirial ^{(Contact me,Contribs)} 20:54, 2 April 2014 (UTC)

AJS Wikipedia Page Update

Hello,

I am an intern for the Association for a more Just Society, and updated the Wikipedia page per my supervisor's request. For all of the information, I merely copied and pasted from our website. If I did not cite the website as a source appropriately, could you help me with this? Otherwise, I don't understand the problem. All of the information was with regards to the mission of the organization or the specific activities that they engage in. Your reply to my update stated that the page did not take a neutral stance. Were the Christian references too explicit? Would it still work to talk about the Christian mission of the organization? Thanks for your help,

Sincerely,

Ian — Preceding unsigned comment added by Idkennedy74 (talk • contribs) 19:43, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

These are quite a few problems related to this edit and the situation in general. In order of severity:

• Copyright violation: The content you added was copied straight from an external website that is clearly marked as being copyrighted - which on its own is a Copyright violation. For legal reasons Wikipedia can only accept content licensed as CC-BY-SA or GDFL (Or a compatible license). Note that it does not matter that the organization described in the article owns the copyright - Wikipedia cannot use it.
• Promotional tone: Ignoring the copyright situation for a second the second issue would be that the content is non neutral. As an encyclopedia, wikipedia is intended to be a neutral source of information and not a vessel for promotion. Since you copied the content straight from the organizations website this is to be expected (Website such as those are virtually never written with encyclopedic content in mind).
• Conflict of interest: If you're an intern for the organization rewriting the article by request of your superviser you have a very clear conflict of interest in this case. Editing while having a conflict of interest is very strongly discouraged since writing (neutral) encyclopedic content is often nigh impossible while having multiple interests in mind.

Summarized i would suggest not editing the page yourself. Both because this tends to result in poor quality pages, and because edits that look promotional tend to be reverted on sight (Potentially wasting a lot of invested time). Excirial ^{(Contact me,Contribs)} 20:12, 7 April 2014 (UTC)