Mclark35

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Hello, Mclark35, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited was George Mason University, 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.

To reduce the chances of your contributions being undone, you might like to draft your revised article before submission, and then ask me or another editor to proofread it. See our help page on userspace drafts for more details. If the page you created has already been deleted from Wikipedia, but you want to save the content from it to use for that draft, don't hesitate to ask anyone from this list and they will copy it to your user page.

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{Help me}} before the question. Again, welcome! Gab4gab (talk) 19:13, 12 June 2019 (UTC)

Thanks Gab4gab, I'm under the impression I can't create a userspace draft on an article that has already been created, for instance, the George Mason University page. Is there another way I should have editors review my changes? Mclark35 (talk) 19:49, 12 June 2019 (UTC)

Hello again Mclark35, thanks for providing your disclosure on you user page. It is a bit confusing that the advice given aims at creating new article rather than updating existing ones. To update existing articles the suggested approach is to use an edit request. The steps to do that are available here. Please let me know if you have any other questions. Gab4gab (talk) 20:08, 12 June 2019 (UTC)