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Proposed deletion of National Youth Strings Academy

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April 2012

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page National Youth Strings Academy has been reverted.
Your edit here to National Youth Strings Academy was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove links which are discouraged per our external links guideline. The external link(s) you added or changed (http://www.facebook.com/nysastrings) is/are on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia.
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advice and warning

Our rule is thatonly individuals can edit, and they may not use as part of their user name the name of the organization. . When you have a username that is or includes the name of your organization, you imply that you are editing officially, and have a superior right to edit the page. But that is not the way WP works--all editors are considered equal--and your contributions like those of any editor must be justified by sources. I'm sure you do not intend to give such impression, but that's why we have the rule. Therefore, please choose another name. On that user page, you should say what conflict of interest you have . DGG ( talk ) 03:31, 27 April 2012 (UTC) Nysastrings (talk) 07:24, 27 April 2012 (UTC) Thanks DGG for the warning. Yes, I am connected to the group in a family way. My mother started this and I've been doing their website pro bono since 1996. I started this wiki as a shell so that people could edit and add at will and slowly the history of this youth orchestra would unfold on wiki. Some background: recently health issues have forced my mother into retirement from this and all her other activities. NYSA was her life, and has been an important part of the lives of several students who have made their careers in music and elsewhere. My username was simply a nod to transparency, and I'm in no way trying to undermine WP. I now leave this page to others to edit and update at will. I am, however surprised at the level of aggravation on WP - considering some of the WP entires I have read over the years - and find it strange that a legitimate charitable organization dedicated to improving musical education in the UK, where doing such a thing is not particularly easy is being given a hard time. In the end educators must be given their due, after all it's due to people like my mother that students in all fields go on to be successful and contribute to the mosaic of life.