AndreaLC529

Welcome!

Hello, AndreaLC529, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited was Montverde Academy, 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.

AndreaLC529 (talk) 21:10, 29 August 2018 (UTC) We are a 501(c)(3) – a non-profit organization as verified by Guidestar https://www.guidestar.org/profile/59-0657329AndreaLC529 (talk) 21:10, 29 August 2018 (UTC)

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.

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• The plain and simple conflict of interest guide
• The five pillars of Wikipedia
• Contributing to Wikipedia
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• How to edit a page and How to develop articles
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• Simplified Manual of Style

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Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, AndreaLC529. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the page Montverde Academy, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI 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, company, organization or competitors;
• propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (see the {{request edit}} template);
• disclose your COI when discussing affected articles (see WP:DISCLOSE);
• avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see WP:SPAM);
• do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you must 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 WP:PAID).

Also please note that editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. JesseRafe (talk) 12:21, 30 August 2018 (UTC)

66.192.31.242 (talk) 12:24, 30 August 2018 (UTC) i understand the conflict of interest, however the information you have posted on our page is incorrect and verified by an independent source, Guidestar, which is an independent reference source, verifying our non profit status - We are a 501(c)(3) – a non-profit organization as verified by Guidestar https://www.guidestar.org/profile/59-0657329 66.192.31.242 (talk) 12:24, 30 August 2018 (UTC)

No idea what you're on about, but please read up the COI concerns as well as making sure to only use one account at a time. No idea what Guidestar is and don't care. Don't recall anyone asking any questions about non profit status on that page. We welcome your contributions but individuals with conflicts of interest have to be careful with the subject matter edits they make, especially when they do not follow the rules of explicitly declaring their conflicts. JesseRafe (talk) 14:52, 30 August 2018 (UTC)