TrophyTrout

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

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited was Arizona State University, 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.

One rule we do have in connection with conflicts of interest is that accounts used by more than one person will unfortunately be blocked from editing. Wikipedia generally does not allow editors to have usernames which imply that the account belongs to a company or corporation. If you have a username like this, you should request a change of username or create a new account. (A name that identifies the user as an individual within a given organization may be OK.)

In addition, if you receive, or expect to receive, compensation for any contribution you make, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation to comply with our terms our use and policy on paid editing.

Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

• The plain and simple conflict of interest guide
• The five pillars of Wikipedia
• Contributing to Wikipedia
• Tutorial
• How to edit a page and How to develop articles
• How to create your first article (using the Article Wizard if you wish)
• Simplified Manual of Style

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{Help me}} before the question. Again, welcome! Grayfell (talk) 20:25, 11 September 2018 (UTC)

Thank you, Grayfell. I do work for ASU, but find it hard to fathom anyone but an ASU affiliate updating our site on Wikipedia. That said, I believe I may cease and desist altogether; too much work for little impact. I'm not even certain I am effectively talking or if my comments are lost somewhere in the ether-sphere! Very, very frustrating experience. TrophyTrout (talk) 00:12, 18 September 2018 (UTC)TrophyTrout

Hello again. You may find it hard to fathom, but Wikipedia is built by volunteers who are dedicated to upholding a neutral point of view. Regardless, as the links above explain, you can edit the article in some cases, but you should avoid doing so until you understand what those cases are. You can instead suggest edits on the article's talk page, but these should be specific, actionable suggestions. Every change you propose should be verifiable, which in practice means it is supported by a reliable source.

Because you are involved with the school, you are not impartial in evaluating which aspects are significant, and which are undue weight. Don't worry about who removes the tag across the top (it's not going to be you) instead discuss actionable suggestions for how to improve the article based on the policies explained above.

You may also find Template:Request edit helpful, as it will notify more experienced editors of your proposed changes.

I sympathize with your frustration, but Wikipedia is not a platform for advertising, and using it as such, even inadvertently, is taking advantage of the work of volunteers. The article on Conflict-of-interest editing on Wikipedia provides some background on why Wikipedia is so reluctant to trust employees of organizations to maintain their own articles. Grayfell (talk) 03:16, 18 September 2018 (UTC)