User talk:Commonwealth Writers

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I noticed that one of the first articles you edited was Commonwealth Writers' Prize, which appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article. Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

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@Jc86035:

Dear JC86035

Thankyou for the welcome. I am indeed new to Wikipedia, and understand to some extent the issues surrounding conflict of interest.

Yes I do work for Commonwealth Writers. The latest edits I have made have been aimed at collecting information on Commonwealth Writers and the Commonwealth Short Story Prize on just a couple of pages and avoiding misunderstanding for people interested in our work. Much of the information on the plethora of pages relating to the various pages wrongly associated with Commonwealth Writers is misleading.

Can you help by suggesting a method by which we can establish more clarity?

Thanks

CW

I merged the Commonwealth Book Prize, Short Story Competition and Writer's Prize into a single article Commonwealth Foundation prizes. It was confusing with many small articles. I also moved the winners of the new Short Story Prize to Commonwealth Short Story Prize which is also easier. -- GreenC 14:32, 7 July 2015 (UTC)

@Jc86035: Thankyou! Could it be useful to add another line to Commonwealth Foundation prizes to clarify that all these prizes are now discontinued, and that the current prize (to which all interested readers should somehow be led) is the Commonwealth Short Story Prize, managed by Commonwealth Writers?

and what do you think about adding to the Commonwealth Writers page the following info: 'Commonwealth Writers' activities take place in Commonwealth Countries but the reach of the community is global'?

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