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Note: I understand you're new to Wikipedia, and appear to be a single-purpose account devoted to the article Lighthouse Guild, at which you appear to be based — judging not only by your editing name but by such sentences as "Our store offers products that make day-to-day life easier for people with vision loss" (a violation of Wikipedia guidelines regarding advertising and promotion).

I'm sure it was inadvertent, but many of your edits have violated policies and guidelines regarding conflict-of-interest, tone and more. I'm afraid it's unacceptable to use promotional language such as "helping people ... lead productive, dignified and fulfilling lives." Your first round of edits also violated copyright issues by listing promotional language directly from the subject's website. You also blanked out a reliably sourced section involving the organization's finances, well-cited to The New York Times, and that is quite unacceptable.

Judging from this behavior, it seems ill-advised that you should be editing this article about your own organization, barring specific factual inaccuracies which you can cite with a footnote. I would also note that, per WP:BRD, after you're reverted you go to the article's talk page and try to achieve consensus with other editors about your proposed edits.

I would hope that someone representing an august organization such as Lighthouse will follow Wikipedia policies and guidelines and not edit-war. If I can answer questions or be of help, just contact me on my talk page. --Tenebrae (talk) 22:42, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

Warning

You were politely asked above not to make wholesale edits that remove cited content, create a PR gloss, or otherwise involve promotional content, including inserting verbatim, copyrighted promotional material, at Lighthouse Guild. You have continued to do so, and you have also refused to discuss the issue on the article's talk page, in violation of WP:BRD.

If you continue to edit-war over promotional edits, I will request admin intervention and you may be blocked or banned from editing this article. If you are ready to discuss your issues on the talk page please do so at Talk:Lighthouse Guild, and please stop attempting to promote your organization using Wikipedia. --Tenebrae (talk) 17:31, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

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Response

Thank you for finally responding. I would have to say that, first of all, no employee of any organization should be making more than objectively indisputable factual changes to an article about that organization. Otherwise, in order to avoid conflict-of-interest editing, the general procedure is to go to the article talk page and make a case for a particular edit. Then other editors can weigh in (or not) and come to a consensus.

Second, you cannot copy-paste content from your website or promotional materials. Third, you cannot remove pertinent content footnoted by reliable-source citations such as The New York Times. Fourth, you cannot give uncited editorial comment after giving the essential fact. For example, the objective fact is, "The Lighthouse was renamed Lighthouse International." We do not then add uncited editorial comment like "to recognize its outreach on behalf of people worldwide who are visually impaired." Fifth, it's OK to use an organization's own material for claims such as non-contentious aspects of company history, but such material must be kept to a minimum, with content instead cited to secondary and tertiary journalistic / academic sources such as reputable magazines, newspapers, databases, books, etc.

Sixth and particularly important, you cannot treat this as your organization's website, with bullet points about your health-care plans and promotional, first-person phrases like "We help individuals maintain their health and independence." Can you not see how that treats Wikipedia like your personal page?

As I said, organizations should not make substantial, wholesale edits to pages about their own organization. Such changes will be reverted, and attempts to keep reinserting it without consensus will lead to admin sanctions.--Tenebrae (talk) 18:51, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

I have left a message at Talk:Lighthouse Guild. There is nothing more to say, other than that if you attempt to manipulate the page again as a biased, non-disinterested, conflict-of-interest employee of the subject organization, there will be admin intervention. And may I add on a personal note that this type of behavior from such an esteemed organization is extremely petty and disappointing. --Tenebrae (talk) 18:48, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

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