User talk:Rudi444
April 2021[edit]
Hello, Rudi444, welcome to Wikipedia and thank you for your contributions. Your editing pattern indicates that you may be using multiple accounts or coordinating editing with people outside Wikipedia, such as Hong Kong Adventist Academy (talk · contribs). Our policy on multiple accounts usually does not allow this, and users who misuse multiple accounts may be blocked from editing. If you operate multiple accounts directly or with the help of another person, please disclose these connections. Thank you. Cabayi (talk) 07:01, 24 April 2021 (UTC)
I currently work for Hong Kong Adventist Academy. When I learned yesterday that our Wikipedia page had been merged falsely with Hong Kong Adventist College I jumped into action to correct it. As I have never used Wikipedia I created an account with the Academy email thinking that was common practice for an account that ties to the company. I quickly learned that this is not the case. So I used my personal account to recommend the necessary changes to the schools wiki page. I think it’s wrong for Wikipedia admin to take such drastically wrong actions without consulting the company. We are a non profit school that relies on the web for correctly portraying our school. Please understand I had no intention to go against Wikipedia’s terms of use. I’m just trying to bring light to the fact that we aren’t HKAC. Rudi444 (talk) 08:04, 24 April 2021 (UTC)
- Thanks for clarifying your actions. You have some basic misunderstandings about Wikipedia which will cause you problems if you continue without thinking them through.
- Wikipedia is an encyclopedia - WP:5P1
- It does not host the schools wiki page, it has an article about the school.
- The article is built on what reliable, verifiable, independent say about the school, not on what the school wishes to say about itself (WP:OWN) - we don't accept advertising (WP:PROMO).
- It follows that there is no situation in which editors would be "consulting the company" before making changes to the article.
- "I think it's wrong for Wikipedia admin to take such drastically wrong actions without..." - It wasn't the decision of one admin. It was a community decision made in a week-long discussion.
- "So I used my personal account to recommend the necessary changes..." - Recommendations would be made on the article's talk page. What you actually did was to revert the redirect to HKAC, over-riding the discussion without consulting anybody - Special:Contributions/Hong Kong Adventist Academy.
- Please take the time to learn how wikipedia works, and to make the necessary declarations :
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Sincerely, Cabayi (talk) 09:12, 24 April 2021 (UTC) (Leave me a message)
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