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Hello,
I'm a senior editor with 20 years' experience for a professional organization that has a Wikipedia entry. I was assigned to a team to correct and update our page. It's my understanding that this can be OK despite the conflict of interest, which I'm stating here, so long as we respect Wikipedia's encyclopedic purpose and editing policies, which I've read and want to conform to. Wikipedia and encyclopedias in general have been good to me all my life.
Our site recently picked up flags that it might contain original research and that it definitely needs reliable references. I've reorganized the current material, keeping as much of the original text as seemed correct (as opposed to just rewriting from the ground up). I've also gotten several references for what I think might be questionable statements. Finally, I've eliminated all the external links from the body of the text (there were lots of them).
Now I'm ready to post the proposed changes. If I don't hear back from anyone on this entry within 24 hours, I plan to make the edits to my organization's page and see what happens from there. We aren't interested in promoting ourselves through Wikipedia -- only in accurately describing who/what we are and making the site conform to your formatting and link policies.
I also look forward to offering general editing services for the WikiProject related to our site that seems to be requesting help -- though I'm just a general editor and not a domain specialist.
Cecilialw 19:42, 6 May 2010 (UTC)Cecilialw