Cynthia W. Sheppard

User talk: Cynthia W. Sheppard

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Hello, Cynthia W. Sheppard, and welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you are stuck, and looking for help, please come to the New contributors' help page, where experienced Wikipedians can answer any queries you have! Or, you can just type {{helpme}} and your question on this page, and someone will show up shortly to answer. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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December 2013

Hello, Cynthia W. Sheppard. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Dorothy Otnow Lewis, you may have a conflict of interest or close connection to the subject.

All editors are required to comply with Wikipedia's neutral point of view content policy. People who are very close to a subject often have a distorted view of it, which may cause them to inadvertently edit in ways that make the article either too flattering or too disparaging. People with a close connection to a subject are not absolutely prohibited from editing about that subject, but they need to be especially careful about ensuring their edits are verified by reliable sources and writing with as little bias as possible.

If you are very close to a subject, here are some ways you can reduce the risk of problems:

• Avoid or exercise great caution when editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with.
• Be cautious about deletion discussions. Everyone is welcome to provide information about independent sources in deletion discussions, but avoid advocating for deletion of articles about your competitors.
• Avoid linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam).
• Exercise great caution so that you do not accidentally breach Wikipedia's content policies.

Please familiarize yourself with relevant content policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, verifiability of information, and autobiographies.

For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Thank you. --Orange Mike | Talk 18:33, 5 December 2013 (UTC)

Talkback

Hello, Cynthia W. Sheppard. You have new messages at Wikipedia:Help desk#Dorothy Otnow Lewis page.
Message added 20:55, 5 December 2013 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

Cyphoidbomb (talk) 20:55, 5 December 2013 (UTC)

Your userpage

Your userpage should be a place to tell us who you are, Cynthia, and what you hope to accomplish here. Instead, you've put up a bogus near-advertisement, written in the third person and studded with the grossly inappropriate use of "Attorney Sheppard" instead of "Sheppard" in a third-person text. Please re-write it in a more human manner, if you plan to stick around here for legitimate purposes and not just to serve as your client's advocate in violation of our ethics. --Orange Mike | Talk 02:23, 6 December 2013 (UTC)

I have blanked your user page as inappropriate and promotional. GiantSnowman 22:51, 7 December 2013 (UTC)

Dorothy Otnow Lewis article

Hi Cynthia. I opened a thread at Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard/Archive190#Dorothy Otnow Lewis[1] for you to post any concerns you may have about the Dorothy Otnow Lewis article. If that does not help, please let me know on my talk page. -- Jreferee (talk) 22:42, 7 December 2013 (UTC)