User talk:Nonprofitassoc

Welcome![edit]

Hello, Nonprofitassoc, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing 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! Mind matrix 16:11, 4 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Links to company website[edit]

Please do not add links to a company website for promotional purposes. Wikipedia is not a web directory. Your additions have been reverted. Mind matrix 16:11, 4 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Please take a look at what you're deleting before deleting. Very helpful templates for nonprofits.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Nonprofitassoc (talk • contribs)

Link additions must be consistent with Wikipedia policy. As I said above, Wikipedia is not a web directory, and such links are not suitable for inclusion on Wikipedia articles. Mind matrix 00:34, 5 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Again, for the second time. They're not promotional. You can't buy them, you can't hire that company to do them for you. They are strictly free legal forms that any person needing to form a Religious Corporation, Public Benefit Corporation, or tax exempt corporation absolutely needs. I challenge you to find free templates for these on the web. Even the states themselves don't provide them with the IRS tax exempt language. Even the IRS doesn't provide tax exempt articles to form a non profit with. I counsel nonprofits, and added these links because of how useful they are for so many people on a very confusing topic. Please do your homework before making assumptions.

Wikipedia policies[edit]

Nonprofitassoc, welcome to Wikipedia, and thank you for your contributions. I will respond to your addition of the external link that Midmatrix is referencing above at the discussion you created at Talk:Nonprofit organization#Non profit templates to form a nonprofit. But on a related note, I would like to emphasize to you the importance of familiarizing yourself with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines, for your recent edit summaries indicate that you are not aware of them or are inappropriately invoking them. For example, you should assume good faith and not characterize other editors' edits that you disagree with as "vandalism" unless the edit clearly is a deliberate attempt to compromise the integrity Wikipedia; good-faith edits (like the reversions made my Mindmatrix) are not vandalism, even if you perceive them as misguided. Please see WP:VANDAL for more information.

Furthermore, per WP:CONSENSUS, consensus is the fundamental decision-making process that Wikipedia uses in making editorial decisions. When a change is proposed by one editor and not accepted by another, the burden is on the proponent of the change to establish consensus in support of the change before it becomes permanent. Thus, if your edit is reverted by another editor, the appropriate action is to refrain from making that change again, discuss your reasons for the edit on the article's talk page, and establish consensus with other editors before making the change again—you should not simply re-edit the article as you please. If no consensus can reached, then per WP:NOCONSENSUS, the result is that the change is not accepted.

Finally, as I mentioned in an edit summary, you should also keep in mind the three revert rule, which states that after reverting the same edit 3+ times in a single day, an editor may be temporarily blocked from editing.

If you have any questions, I encourage you to check out the resources available at Wikipedia:New contributors' help page, or feel free to message me. –Prototime (talk · contribs) 04:08, 6 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

P.S. It'd be very helpful if you could sign your posts on talk pages; to do so, type the ~ symbol four times in a row after your comment. –Prototime (talk · contribs) 04:16, 6 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

March 2017[edit]

Welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your username, "Nonprofitassoc", may not meet Wikipedia's username policy because CORP, group acct. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. As an alternative, you may ask for a change of username by completing this form, or you may simply create a new account for editing. Thank you. Widefox; talk 11:39, 18 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]