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Hi! I read your disclosure here, for which thank you! You've made a large number of edits to American Battlefield Trust, which as an editor with a paid interest you should not have done – please see WP:COI and WP:PAID for guidance. In a nutshell, paid editors are strongly discouraged from direct editing of any affected article, but may instead propose improvements using {{request edit}} on the relevant talk-page. I haven't reviewed your edits in detail, and for all I know they may be fine, but in any case you should have followed the recommended procedure. Would you kindly make a point of doing so in future? Thank you, Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 21:51, 9 June 2023 (UTC)

My apologies for failing to respond to your note earlier. I did not notice the alert. Nearly all of my dozens of edits have involved replacing a source link that is no longer functional (the page no longer exists) and replacing it with a valid source link. Dozens of edits have also involved updating the name of the organization, which has changed from the Civil War Trust to the American Battlefield Trust. And many edits have also been to update the number of acres preserved by the Trust on a particular battlefield. The Trust is constantly making new purchases -- about two dozen or more a year -- and the information on those various Wikipedia pages needs to be updated from time to time to be accurate. That is what I have been doing. All of my work has been to keep more than 100 Wikipedia pages accurate and up to date. Given the dozens and dozens of small changes that needed to be made, I figured it best to make them rather than unnecessarily tie up you folks with what amounts to routine maintenance. I have perhaps 40 or 50 more pages for which a source for one reference not needs to be updated as well as the name of the organization. How do you suggest I go about trying to do this? Again, my only aim, and that of the Trust, is to make Wikipedia more accurate and to replace a non-functional link on a source note with one that works. SaveOurHistory (talk) 15:29, 22 June 2023 (UTC)

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Graham87 04:15, 22 June 2023 (UTC)

You have shown absolutely no indication of responding to the important message above by @Justlettersandnumbers:. Your username is also highly opinionated; most usernames of established Wikipedia users don't contain imperatives. Graham87 04:15, 22 June 2023 (UTC)

My apologies for failing to respond to the note from Justlettersandnumber and to yours. I did not notice the alerts. I would be happy to switch to a user name that is not considered to be opinionated. As to the work I've done, nearly all of my dozens of edits have involved replacing a source link that is no longer functional (the page no longer exists) and replacing it with a valid source link. Dozens of edits have also involved updating the name of the organization, which has changed from the Civil War Trust to the American Battlefield Trust. And many edits have also been to update the number of acres preserved by the Trust on a particular battlefield. The Trust is constantly making new purchases -- about two dozen or more a year -- and the information on those various Wikipedia pages needs to be updated from time to time to be accurate. All of my work has been to keep more than 100 Wikipedia pages accurate and up to date. Given the small changes that needed to be made on dozens and dozens of pages, I figured it best to make them rather than unnecessarily tie up you folks with what amounts to routine maintenance. I have perhaps 40 or 50 more pages for which a source for one reference not needs to be updated as well as the name of the organization. How do you suggest I go about trying to do this? My only aim, and that of the Trust, is to make Wikipedia more accurate and to replace non-functional links on source notes with ones that work. Again, my apologies for not responding to these messages earlier. SaveOurHistory (talk) 15:28, 22 June 2023 (UTC) SaveOurHistory (talk) 15:38, 22 June 2023 (UTC)