User talk:Curatorzzk

August 2017

Hello, I'm Walter Görlitz. I noticed that you recently removed content from First Call without adequately explaining why. In the future, it would be helpful to others if you described your changes to Wikipedia with an accurate edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry; the removed content has been restored. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. Walter Görlitz (talk) 02:54, 31 August 2017 (UTC)

Please do not remove content or templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to First Call, without giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your content removal does not appear to be constructive and has been reverted. If you only meant to make a test edit, please use the sandbox for that. Thank you. Walter Görlitz (talk) 03:52, 31 August 2017 (UTC)

Welcome!

Hello, Curatorzzk, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited was First Call, which appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article. Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

To reduce the chances of your contributions being undone, you might like to draft your revised article before submission, and then ask me or another editor to proofread it. See our help page on userspace drafts for more details. If the page you created has already been deleted from Wikipedia, but you want to save the content from it to use for that draft, don't hesitate to ask anyone from this list and they will copy it to your user page.

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This edit, where you state that you are, "acting on behalf of one of the group members" is a clear conflict of interest. I have no problems with subjects editing content directly, but there are many more editors who do not trust CoI editors at all. Updating information is fine, but not when it deletes referenced content. Add discretion is fine when it removes personal information about subjects that could put them at risk, but not when it removes factual information about highly publicized affairs that occurred. Correcting factual errors are also valid, but again, removing references from reliable sources. Finally, links to the individual members' home pages violates the external links content guideline. The group's official website should be an EL, but not individual members. Those can be linked on the official website. If you restore the content, I won't revert again. I will let an admin decide what to do. Walter Görlitz (talk) 04:00, 31 August 2017 (UTC)

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