Dcates63

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Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Dcates63. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the article USS Alabama (SSBN-731), you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. Editing for the purpose of advertising or promotion is not permitted. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:

• avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, company, organization or competitors;
• propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (see the {{request edit}} template);
• disclose your COI when discussing affected articles (see WP:DISCLOSE);
• avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see WP:SPAM);
• do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID). Thank you. - ^theWOLFchild 10:18, 11 February 2018 (UTC)

February 2018

Welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate your contributions, including your edits to USS Alabama (SSBN-731), but we cannot accept original research. Original research refers to material—such as facts, allegations, ideas, and personal experiences—for which no reliable, published sources exist; it also encompasses combining published sources in a way to imply something that none of them explicitly say. Please be prepared to cite a reliable source for all of your contributions. Thank you. - ^theWOLFchild 10:19, 11 February 2018 (UTC)

Please do not add original research or novel syntheses of published material to articles as you apparently did to USS Alabama (SSBN-731). Please cite a reliable source for all of your contributions. Thank you. - ^theWOLFchild 10:20, 11 February 2018 (UTC)

Hello

I see that you're new here and you have run into some problems. Just so you know, I have also removed the content you added to Alabama's page, as it was still not properly sourced. We can't just add information, even if we know it personally to be true and/or correct. That is called original research. You need to find a reliable source to support this info and attach it to your edit properly.

Also, once you were reverted, you shouldn't have tried to re-add the same content, that is the first step in what in known here as edit warring and that can lead to your account being blocked. Instead, once you are reverted, you should go to the article's talk page to discuss the matter. I see in this you did make an effort to discuss on a talk page, but you did that on BilCat's user talk page. I can't speak for him, but most editor's here prefer you keep comments about an article to an article's talk page. You should consider moving your comment to there; Talk:USS Alabama (SSBN-731)

Another issue is that you've stated you have a close relationship with/to the subject you're editing. There is a potential conflict of interest there you should be aware of.

That said, it's not all bad news. I've added a 'welcome' template with plenty of "links" to information for new users to help them learn their way around. Please read through it and learn the editing guidelines here. I've also added notices following your edits to the Alabama page, as well as a 'conflict of interest' notice. Please read through them and the links they contain, again there is more useful information there.

Lastly, I added links to the critical points I've addressed with here in my comments. Please read them, especially before you edit again, either the Alabama page or any other page. I'll watch this page, and if you have any questions, post them here and I'll reply as soon as I can (when I'm online and on-wiki). Cheers - ^theWOLFchild 10:47, 11 February 2018 (UTC)