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Conflict of interest at Associated Banc-Corp

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  Hello, Tgutie1. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you have an external relationship with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Associated Banc-Corp, you may have a conflict of interest or close connection to the subject.

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Official bank of the Badgers

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Can you please explain why you removed the 'official bank of the Badgers' reference on the Associated Banc Corp page?

As explained in the edit summary, the assertion needs a source. Any assertion in an article without a source can be removed. This one had been tagged as needing a source for 17 months. Time for it to go.
BTW, you have a conflict of interest. You are also being paid by your employer for your editing. As the two warnings you've already received state: (1.) you need to disclose your employer and affiliation with respect to your edits; (2.) you need to be very, very cautious in editing your employer's article. The best practice is to suggest edits on the article's talk page, where an uninvolved editor can review them and add them if they are neutral. You need to read the warnings and take them seriously. Just yesterday 381 users who failed to reveal their affiliation, in violation of Wikimedia’s Terms of Use were blocked from editing. 32.218.152.109 (talk) 04:12, 2 September 2015 (UTC)Reply

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