User talk:Rva24

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June 2021

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Federal University of Minas Gerais has been reverted.
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June 2021: Federal University of Minas Gerais

Hello, Rva24. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:

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Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you.--Quisqualis (talk) 17:20, 26 June 2021 (UTC)

My Answers

Hi, thank you for letting me know. Before I can take the time to go through the Wikimedia Foundation regulations on righteous editing, I can already answer to some of the things you mentioned.

I have nothing to disclose other than the following: my only relationship to the Federal University of Minas Gerais is that I graduated from this institution years ago. I no longer have any affiliation to it. I might know some researchers in research groups from there, and might and eventually coauthor some of their publications.

I just happened to notice that the English version of this article was, and still is, very incomplete and outdated. I took the time to start to try to update it and complete information lacking. I know that it was incomplete and outdated due to the fact that I went there, I know the institution. I thoroughly used the University's website as reference for there is no other source of information to cite, to prove that that is the complex institutinal organization and public administration of this University. The only information that might have been biased is adjectives I might have used to describe the research output of some departments. Rva24 (talk) 18:02, 26 June 2021 (UTC)

• I don't have any current ongoing projects related to this University Rva24 (talk) 18:07, 26 June 2021 (UTC)

Rva24 (talk) 18:11, 27 June 2021 (UTC)

• I read some of the materials about the Wikimedia Foundation policies and guidelines. Of course, I did not have the time to go through all of the important contents, exactly because I am not getting paid to have any business with Wikipedia editing, which means I am only doing so to try to help when I have spare time, which is never. My only interest in editing the UFMG page is because the prior version, mostly produced around 2005 and 2006 is outdated, eventually wrong, and that can contain biased views in itself. This institution is one of the most important in Brazil, to be honest. It deserves to have a thoroughly done English version on Wikipedia, because it is really not an irrelevant institution in the Brazilian educational scenario. I will now try to edit the page again, with the most neutral attitude possible, and I could only say that I spare bona fides in doing so. Rva24 (talk) 18:36, 27 June 2021 (UTC)