David L Duff

March 2018

Hello, I'm Oshwah. I noticed that you made a change to an article, We the People (band), but you didn't provide a source. I’ve removed it for now, but if you’d like to include a citation to a reliable source and re-add it, please do so! If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. ~Oshwah~^{(talk) (contribs)} 04:39, 22 March 2018 (UTC)

Deletion of a legitimate edit

I am editing this as a member of the group WE THE PEOPLE...all I am doing is updating info and I would appreciate it if u would leave it as I wrote it..the source material is myself as a band member.... David L Duff (talk) 04:57, 22 March 2018 (UTC)

See the response I made to your message on my user talk page here. It should answer your questions. If you have more questions, please feel free to respond to your original message and ask :-) ~Oshwah~^{(talk) (contribs)} 05:15, 22 March 2018 (UTC)

Welcome!

Hello, David L Duff, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited was We the People (band), which appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article. Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

To reduce the chances of your contributions being undone, you might like to draft your revised article before submission, and then ask me or another editor to proofread it. See our help page on userspace drafts for more details. If the page you created has already been deleted from Wikipedia, but you want to save the content from it to use for that draft, don't hesitate to ask anyone from this list and they will copy it to your user page.

One rule we do have in connection with conflicts of interest is that accounts used by more than one person will unfortunately be blocked from editing. Wikipedia generally does not allow editors to have usernames which imply that the account belongs to a company or corporation. If you have a username like this, you should request a change of username or create a new account. (A name that identifies the user as an individual within a given organization may be OK.)

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Hi David L Duff. If, as you posted above, you are a member of We the People (band), then you have a conflict of interest with anything written about the band on Wikipedia. Wikipedia does not expressly forbid conflict-of-interest editing, but it is something which is highly discouraged because it can lead to some serious problems if one's not careful, which is why I have added the above welcome template to your user talk page. The template contains links to various pages which discuss Wikipedia policies and guideline related to COI editing. I suggest you take a little time to read through these to better familiarize yourself with the kinds of edits that Wikipedia generally considers acceptable for COI editors to make. As for the notification left above by Oshwah, try to remember that "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog". Obviously, I don't think you're a dog, but at the same time I have no way of verifying who you say you are. Perhaps on a personal level I would just take you at your word, but Wikipedia requires something more substantial which can be properly verified. How Wikipedia does this is through citations to be reliable sources. So, if the band has an official website or you are aware of any other reliable sources which state you are a member of the band, then start a discussion on the article's talk page and someone will help you add the information to the article. Please note that Wikipedia defines "reliable sources" in a particular way and only such sources should be cited.

Finally, one last thing about your username. You can use your real name is you like, but you should be aware of WP:REALNAME. In some cases, well-know individuals may be asked to provide verification of their identity just to protect against the possiblilty of harmful impersonation. If you're not going to edit regularly, then this probably is not going to be necessarily; however, if you plan on regularly editing/adding content about yourself or the band on Wikipedia, then you may eventually be asked for such verification. This is usually done by private email and is handled by a Wikimedia OTRS volunteer who are approved to deal with such matters. -- Marchjuly (talk) 05:31, 22 March 2018 (UTC)