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Please do not add commentary or your own personal analysis to Misplaced Pages articles, as you did to Scottish Knights Templar. Doing so violates Misplaced Pages's neutral point of view policy and breaches the formal tone expected in an encyclopedia. If you would like to experiment, use the sandbox. Thank you.Sannhet (talk) 11:44, 11 October 2012 (UTC)
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Topic Ban
Please do not edit Scottish Knights Templar again until further notice from an administrator, or else your account may be blocked. , as well as your general editing history, suggests that you are engaged in WP:COI editing in a manner that is impermissible. Misplaced Pages is a not a place to promote an organization, regardless of the merits. You may place suggested edits on the article talk page and an uninvolved editor may consider them for inclusion. Jehochman 12:47, 12 October 2012 (UTC)
- I am revoking your topic ban, since it is not appropriate to topic ban someone for simply having a conflict of interest, and besides, an administrator cannot hand them out unilaterally anyway. However, please observe WP:BRD and take any editing disputes to the discussion page, because you can be blocked for edit-warring. If your editing does present a conflict of interest, it would serve you well to read Misplaced Pages:Conflict of interest first. Betty Logan (talk) 20:35, 12 October 2012 (UTC)