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Your edits to Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life
editI noticed your edit of 21:54 6 November which removed the section "Criticism". This looked to me like simple vandalism of a regrettably common type, and I reverted it with the "rollback" tool which had the effect of reverting all your last consecutive edits to this article - ten on 26 Oct and two today.
Looking at these edits, it is clear to me that you are not a vandal, but I still have some concern about them. The links from the Welcome paragraph above will tell you something about Wikipedia's policies, in particular that it does not publish original research including editors' individual opinions: everything must be verifiable from independent reliable sources, and must be written from a neutral point of view. People with a connection with the subject of an article are strongly discouraged from editing it, because of the conflict of interest involved.
Although some of your string of edits are merely rearranging information and adding small amounts, several of them consist of removing properly-sourced criticism of Hillel, and overall the effect suggests that you may have a conflict of interest and are not writing from a neutral point of view. Your edit of 17 October also consisted of removal of sourced criticism, and I have reverted that, too.
As I personally know nothing about this subject, I intend to leave on the talk pages of other editors who have contributed to the article a note saying what I have done. If you would like your changes to be incorporated I suggest that you outline them on the article's talk page so that a discussion can take place there in an attempt to reach consensus. If that is not possible, Wikipedia has dispute resolution procedures.
Regards, JohnCD (talk) 22:35, 6 November 2008 (UTC)
Speedy deletion nomination of American Friends Committee on Legislation
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A tag has been placed on American Friends Committee on Legislation, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Business for more information.
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This article was plainly written by the CMEP staff or board. This constitutes a violation of Wikipedia policy. It is a conflict of interest. This sort of infomercial is all to,common on Wikipedia.