Welcome! edit

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February 2017 edit

  Hello, I'm CorbieVreccan. I noticed that you made a change to an article, Dan Davies, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so! If you need guidance on referencing, please see the referencing for beginners tutorial, or if you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Please read up on sourcing. If you cannot find a reliable source, you cannot add the content. Do not revert-war with editors. - CorbieV 01:57, 17 February 2017 (UTC)Reply

  Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. You appear to be repeatedly reverting or undoing other editors' contributions at Dan Davies. Although this may seem necessary to protect your preferred version of a page, on Wikipedia this is known as "edit warring" and is usually seen as obstructing the normal editing process, as it often creates animosity between editors. Instead of reverting, please discuss the situation with the editor(s) involved and try to reach a consensus on the talk page.

If editors continue to revert to their preferred version they are likely to be blocked from editing Wikipedia. This isn't done to punish an editor, but to prevent the disruption caused by edit warring. In particular, editors should be aware of the three-revert rule, which says that an editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Edit warring on Wikipedia is not acceptable in any amount, and violating the three-revert rule is very likely to lead to a block. Thank you. - CorbieV 02:03, 17 February 2017 (UTC)Reply

Managing a conflict of interest edit

  Hello, ShannonJosephDoyle. 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 COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic, and it is important when editing Wikipedia articles that such connections be completely transparent. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. In particular, we ask that you please:

  • avoid editing or creating articles related to you and your family, friends, school, company, club, or organization, as well as any competing companies' projects or products;
  • instead, you are encouraged to propose changes on the Talk pages of affected article(s) (see the {{request edit}} template);
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  • exercise great caution so that you do not violate 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).

Please take a few moments to read and review Wikipedia's policies regarding conflicts of interest, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, sourcing and autobiographies. I notice you've been aggressively editing in a narrow field of interest, so this raises this question. Please take some time to read the links above and familiarize yourself with Wikipedia and how we do things here as a community. Thanks. - CorbieV 02:09, 17 February 2017 (UTC)Reply

February 2017 edit

  Please stop making disruptive edits, as you did at Dan Davies.

If you continue to disrupt Wikipedia, you may be blocked from editing. You clearly have not read any of the links I posted. You are still adding bare URLs to unusable sources. Blogs are not usable. IMDb is not usable. You need to let this rest. In what way are you connected to this subject? - CorbieV 02:56, 17 February 2017 (UTC)Reply

  You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you blank out or remove content from Wikipedia, as you did with this edit to West of Thunder. Jim1138 (talk) 00:12, 18 February 2017 (UTC)Reply

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