User talk:IsaacGoff

Hello, IsaacGoff. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places, or things you have written about in the article Wirt County High School, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic, and it is important when editing Wikipedia articles that such connections be completely transparent. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. In particular, we ask that you please:

avoid editing or creating articles related to you and your family, friends, school, company, club, or organization, as well as any competing companies' projects or products;
instead, you are encouraged to propose changes on the Talk pages of affected article(s) (see the {{request edit}} template);
when discussing affected articles, disclose your COI (see WP:DISCLOSE);
avoid linking to the Wikipedia article or to the website of your organization in other articles (see WP:SPAM);
exercise great caution so that you do not violate Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID).

Please take a few moments to read and review Wikipedia's policies regarding conflicts of interest, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, sourcing and autobiographies.

Also please note that editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Melcous (talk) 23:32, 13 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi Isaac, thanks for your message on my talk page and for explaining your connection to the article. As you can see above, wikipedia has fairly clearly conflict of interest guidelines, so please do take time to familiarise yourself with these. The other key thing is that wikipedia articles are to be based on content that is sourced to reliable, published, independent sources, and if these cannot be found then the content should not be included.

If your goal is to get your students involved in editing wikipedia, it would be worth knowing that wikipedia has an education program specifically designed to help teachers do this. You can find out much more about this by starting here. Cheers, Melcous (talk) 13:36, 14 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]