Johnjharrisons

August 2009

Please do not delete content or templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Indianapolis Zoo, without giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your content removal does not appear constructive, and has been reverted. Please make use of the sandbox if you'd like to experiment with test edits. Thank you. Regarding your edit summary: two of the three are directly related to the zoo (as in, it happened in the zoo), two of the three are sourced (and the third could easily be sourced). This is not "prejudicial grandstanding" (which is rather subjective) and the fact that similar things happen elsewhere has no bearing on this article. Please refrain from removing this information again without gaining a consensus on the page's talk page. Thank you. 13² 13:56, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

If you have a close connection to some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Indianapolis Zoo, you may have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, edits where there is a conflict of interest, or where such a conflict might reasonably be inferred from the tone of the edit and the proximity of the editor to the subject, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:

1. editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with;
2. participating in deletion discussions about articles related to your organization or its competitors; and
3. linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam).

Please familiarize yourself with relevant policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, verifiability of information, and autobiographies.

For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. For more details about what, exactly, constitutes a conflict of interest, please see our conflict of interest guidelines. Thank you. Given the nature of your edits, the articles you've focused on so far, and how you vehemently removed negative information on the zoo (despite being sourced and directly related), I feel the issue of COI needs to be brought up. 13² 13:59, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

I have started a relevant discussion about this issue here. Please feel free to discuss this there and work to gain a consensus. Thank you. --13² 14:28, 26 August 2009 (UTC)