User talk:Lukeedwards1981

March 2010

Why are you refusing to allow me to state club facts on the clubs site. THAT is what happened. If the England Manager gets replaced, would you question that?! I am the First Team Coach at Cradley Town. Everything I have said is fact. check the midland football alliance website and the Cradley Town FC Website to see I am stating fact. Please stop editing my posts as you clearly have nothing to do with the club and do not know the facts of the club.

Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to make constructive contributions to Wikipedia, but at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to Cradley Town F.C., did not appear to be constructive and has been automatically reverted by ClueBot.

• Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Note that human editors do monitor recent changes to Wikipedia articles, and administrators have the ability to block users from editing if they repeatedly engage in vandalism.
• Cluebot produces very few false positives, but it does happen. If you believe the change you made should not have been detected as unconstructive, please report it here, remove this warning from your talk page, and then make the edit again.
• The following is the log entry regarding this warning: Cradley Town F.C. was changed by Lukeedwards1981 (u) (t) making a minor change with obscenities on 2010-03-06T00:18:21+00:00 . Thank you. ClueBot (talk) 00:18, 6 March 2010 (UTC)

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did with this edit to the page Cradley Town F.C.. Such edits constitute vandalism and are reverted. Please do not continue to make unconstructive edits to pages; use the sandbox for testing. Thank you. Zhang He (talk) 00:20, 6 March 2010 (UTC)

Please do not add unsourced or original content, as you did with this edit to Cradley Town F.C.. Doing so violates Wikipedia's verifiability policy. If you continue to do so, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Zhang He (talk) 00:26, 6 March 2010 (UTC)

If you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, edits where there is a conflict of interest, or where such a conflict might reasonably be inferred, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:

1. editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with;
2. participating in deletion discussions about articles related to your organization or its competitors; and
3. linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam).

Please familiarize yourself with relevant policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, verifiability of information, and autobiographies.

For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Thank you. Zhang He (talk) 01:04, 6 March 2010 (UTC)

• As noted above, there is a concern that your changes to Cradley Town F.C. cannot be checked against a reliable secondary source, nor even the CTFC website. Is there some source (local newspaper, for example) that will verify the changes? —C.Fred (talk) 01:32, 6 March 2010 (UTC)

On further investigation, The Stratford Herald confirms the change of manager, so I'm willing to go with the new listings at the club's (old) website. —C.Fred (talk) 01:39, 6 March 2010 (UTC)

Your actions.

I have backed off and have brought your actions up at WP:AN/I. - Zhang He (talk) 01:22, 6 March 2010 (UTC)

More on conflict of interest and the Cradley Town article

As Zhang He noted above, you have a conflict of interest with respect to the Cradley Town F.C. article.

One of the goals of Wikipedia is that articles should be written from a neutral point of view. This means that editors must avoid strongly opinionated language and must strive to present all sides of controversial issues.

Certain classes of editors, regardless of their intent, are recognized to not be independent from their subject. While this does not mean all of their edits are biased, this means they are more prone to bias than other editors. These editors include the subject of an article or its employees, members, representatives, or the like.

Based on this edit and the edit summary, and looking at your username, you appear to be the first team coach of Cradley Town. Because of this relationship with the team, you have a conflict of interest. While this doesn't forbid you from editing the article, it does mean that you need to be careful that all your edits can be backed up with independent reliable sources.

As noted above, this requirement for independent sources exists to make sure the article stays neutral. It also, in some way, protects the article from attack. An editor cannot pose as an officer of the club and expect his edits to remain unchallenged just because he claims to be an officer! He's expected to comply with the verifiability guideline the same as all other editors.

Now, in the case of your edits to Cradley Town today, I found a newspaper story (newspapers are reliable sources that are independent of the subject) that confirmed the change of manager. I also found a club website which shows the new roster of coaches. Accordingly, I'm satisfied that the change of manager has been sufficiently verified that it is accurate.

Hopefully that explains the issue today. Again, this doesn't forbid you from editing Cradley Town F.C.; however, be prepared to provide references to back up the changes made to the article. If you have any questions—with the Cradley Town article or with any other article you want to contribute to—feel free to ask me, either here or at my talk page. —C.Fred (talk) 02:09, 6 March 2010 (UTC)