Talk:Voltaire Foundation

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This edit request by an editor with a conflict of interest has now been answered.

I have been doing paid consultancy for the Voltaire Foundation, and while the focus of that has been articles about Voltaire's works, the articles about the Voltaire Foundation and its publications Complete Works of Voltaire and Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment are presently a bit of an embarrassment. The problems include peacock terms such as "leading research" or "the prestigious prize", external links in body text, and text that is too similar to the cited source. I have spoken to staff at the Foundation about Wikipedia's policies on neutrality and conflict of interest.

Because of WP:COI considerations, I have not edited the articles directly. I have created these user-space drafts:

If you agree that these drafts are improvements on what's already there, please copy the text into the mainspace article (remembering to preserve the categories). Thanks in advance for any help, MartinPoulter (talk) 16:00, 22 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Done Hello MartinPoulter - I have accepted all of your changes and have implemented them on the article. --st170e^talk 16:19, 22 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]