Merenvin
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Welcome to Wikipedia, Merenvin! Thank you for your contributions. I am Naraht and I have been editing Wikipedia for some time, so if you have any questions feel free to leave me a message on my talk page. You can also check out Wikipedia:Questions or type {{help me}} at the bottom of this page. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:
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Hi, my username is Naraht. I'm an experienced editor and an alumnus of Taipei American School (1985) A few comments.
- The boxes commenting about "Advertisement" and "Need for References" are about the article, not about the school
- Please read Wikipedia Ownership, the page, Dominican International School is *about* the Dominican International School, not controlled by them. Anyone is welcome to edit any article, regardless of whether they are directly involved in the Dominican International School or not. You should also be careful to avoid Conflict of Interest when editing and keeping to a Neutral Point of View.
- In regards to your user page. While I appreciate that DIS doesn't want students vandalising the article, Wikipedia's servers are in Florida and as such any action would be taken there.
- Also please see WP:No Legal Threats.
I'd like to see the article on Dominican International School improved and hope that I'm helping you understand the rules for editing and articles on Wikipedia.Naraht (talk) 09:00, 3 January 2015 (UTC)
My Response: Thank you for the response, even though it is rather patronising. I am the author of the article and I do not think it reads as an advertisement. We had problems with people vandalising our pages and this is just another problem that has appeared all of a sudden. I want to remove it. Our article was good enough for several years and now we have a problem. I am an experienced former journalist, professional editor and published writer and I do not think it reads like an advertisement. This popped up after we had taken action because our pages had been vandalised. I have an idea that it is a new way of attacking our page. I see that a good portion of it has disappeared too. I do not want an evaluation of my writing, I want to know how to remove those nasty headings. What need for references is there? I am the author of a page about the school and its history there are NO references. Do I need references for every article I write? That is absurd! There are no other authors who have written about the school. The school's museum is the reference. How do a remove those nasties? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 114.24.42.239 (talk) 15:38, 3 January 2015 (UTC)
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editHello Merenvin, I have removed the legal threat on your user page as it could give Wikipedia contributors the impression that you may consider legal or other "off-wiki" action against them, or against Wikipedia itself. Please note that making such threats on Wikipedia is strictly prohibited under Wikipedia's policies on legal threats and civility. Users who make such threats may be blocked, thank you. MilborneOne (talk) 19:59, 3 January 2015 (UTC)