Marylll

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October 2020

Hello, Marylll. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the page Taoist Tai Chi, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:

• avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization or competitors;
• propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the {{request edit}} template);
• disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see Wikipedia:Conflict of interest#How to disclose a COI);
• avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see WP:Spam);
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In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to 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 Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Ahunt (talk) 12:58, 16 October 2020 (UTC)

Thank you for your response and advice Ahunt, we want to do this right. We have been upfront about our conflict of interest and agree wholeheartedly with the Wiki policy of not using the pages for self-promotion. At the same time, we believe it is fair to bring the Wiki sites more up to date, so that we are represented accurately. We have third-party media articles, a university paper, a published video and government reports to support our suggested changes as well as the legal articles of our organization. Some of the administrative changes are just indisputable facts, they are not opinion.

None of us on the committee is employed with the organization (although one of us worked at the International Taoist Tai Chi Centre years ago), but we are all long-time participants and all of us volunteer. One of us is on a regional board in Canada and one is on the board of the Taoist Tai Chi Society of New Zealand board. We will update our profile to include this. Our involvement on this committee represents our deep care for an organization that we believe in. There is no economic benefit to us. As we are a non-profit, charitable organization, there is no financial benefit to any individual in the organization for updating these pages.

We will broach each edit on the talk pages, as recommended, and point out our COI each time. We hope that we can work on this successfully with the help of the editing team. Marylll (talk) 18:09, 19 October 2020 (UTC)

Just to be clear, you don't have to be paid to be in a conflict of interest, just here ti represent the subject of any article. That said, that is the right way to go about, just post your proposed text on the applicable article talk page, with references, and other editors will assess it for inclusion. - Ahunt (talk) 20:29, 19 October 2020 (UTC)