Michelle Gatchell
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{{Help Me}} I know I deleted alot of material on your Web site, but I work at the agency this entry is about and it was brought up to me by several people that the information on here is outdated and we want to put our information on it. I do media relations and external communications for the Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation and we want this changed article to be updated to our current messaging. So how do I do that, please tell me.
- Hi. Welcome to Wikipedia. From our point of view, you have a conflict of interest, but we certainly do not want the article on your organization to be inaccurate; however, it's best that you don't edit it directly yourself. Read these guidelines:
- The best thing for you to do is to propose, on the article's talk page at Talk:Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation, the changes you would like made to the article, and see if other editors will agree to make them. When you post there you should make clear that you represent the Bureau. Alternatively, if you would rather do a complete rewrite, reply under here to say so, and I will show you how to make a draft article in your "user space" which could be checked out before being made into an article.
- Looking at the changes you made, I should point out that if information in the article is accurate and cited to a reliable source, it will not be removed just because the Bureau doesn't like it: a Wikipedia article is not a PR release.
- Regards, JohnCD (talk) 21:45, 17 February 2010 (UTC)
Yes I would like to do a rewrite.
- Very well; I have made a user sub-page for you at User:Michelle Gatchell/Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation and copied into it the present article as a starting-point for you to modify. There is good advice in the links from the Welcome paragraph above, and in WP:Your first article. Let me stress again that you should not try to write a PR piece here - if you do, it is not likely to be accepted; one of our key policies is WP:Neutral point of view. If there are disagreements, what we try to do is discuss them and reach a WP:Consensus; failing that, we have procedures for WP:Dispute resolution.
- If you need advice, or when your draft is ready, you can put {{helpme}} here again, or ask at the WP:New contributors' help page; you can ask on my talk page, but you might not get such a quick response.
- When you post on a talk page like this, it is helpful to know who said what when, so the thing to do is end each post with four tilde characters ~~~~ which the system will turn into a "signature" with your username and the time and date: like this: JohnCD (talk) 22:34, 17 February 2010 (UTC)
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