User talk:Americanosteopathic

November 2008

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Osteopathic medicine in the United States. Note that the three-revert rule prohibits making more than three reversions on a single page within a 24 hour period. Additionally, users who perform a large number of reversions in content disputes may be blocked for edit warring, even if they do not technically violate the three-revert rule. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing. Please do not repeatedly revert edits, but use the talk page to work towards wording and content that gains a consensus among editors. If necessary, pursue dispute resolution. Verbal chat 17:58, 24 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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HTML elements: The software that Wikipedia runs on does not support HTML abbreviation elements (<acronym> or <abbr>); therefore, these tags are not inserted into the source (see Mediazilla:671). Verbal chat 18:02, 24 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Conflict of Interest notificiation

Greetings! I am posting this as this user has revealed herself to be a Media Relations Specialist, a paid employee of the American Osteopathic Association. The following guildlines will help to guide you about which articles you may wish to excercise caution with when editing. 69.27.229.11 (talk) 23:20, 10 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Continuation . . .

Hi AmericanOsteopathic,

Thanks for contacting me. I'm delighted you have an interest in Wikipedia.

You ask some great questions. I'll do the best I can to answer them.

As you may know, Wikipedia is the on-line encyclopedia that "anyone can edit." Anyone is allowed to contribute to Wikipedia, at any time.

You'll notice I said anyone, and not any "group."

Your attempt to edit a page discussing an organization or group of which you are a paid employee is frowned upon by Wikipedia's conflict of interest policy.

You can read about Wikipedia's Conflict of Interest Policy here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:COI

If you attempt to edit the article about Osteopathic medicine in the future, you might be banned from Wikipedia. I say might, because there is still a reasonable way for you to edit, even with your COI.

#1 Establish yourself as a reputable editor who is interested in making contributions to Wikipedia, outside of the area of Osteopathic medicine. Wikipedia frowns on edits done as part of employment. Wikipedians are volunteers. If you show you are legitimately interested in being an editor, outside of your position of media relations specialist, you may learn a lot about how Wikipedia works, and also be better positioned to make effective, meaningful contributions to Wikipedia. (Plus its really fun!)

#2 The best place to discuss article's content is not in private emails between editors. Discussions about article's content are best voiced on that article's talk page. The talk page for Osteopathic medicine in the United States is here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Osteopathic_medicine_in_the_United_States

#3 You (as a user) also have a talk page. It is located here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Americanosteopathic

#4 The cornerstone prinicples of the content on Wikipedia are "notability," "reliability" and "neutral point of view." Understanding these principles, specifically in the context of Wikipedia, is critical to being a member of the Wikipedia community. Here's links to the guildlines discussing these three concepts.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:RS

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:N

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:NPOV

I have posted this information on your talk page, as well.

Let's continue our dicussion there! I'll meet you there. I'd love to help you in any way I can.

Sincerely,

Bryan Hopping ^T 23:50, 10 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for taking the time to explain Wikipedia guidelines to me. In the future, I will be sure to limit any editing I do on the site to updating factual and statistical information, such as updating statistics about the profession.--Americanosteopathic (talk) 16:20, 18 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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