Winterjps
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Welcome to Wikipedia, Winterjps! I am Yousaf465 and have been editing Wikipedia for quite some time. I just wanted to say hi and welcome you to Wikipedia! If you have any questions, feel free to leave me a message on my talk page or by typing {{helpme}} at the bottom of this page. I love to help new users, so don't be afraid to leave a message! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:
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yousaf465' 03:56, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
Hi yousaf465, thanks for the cookies! Does somebody else offer milk?
Thanks for making contact and providing links to wiki guides, I appreciate it. All the guidelines can seem at bit overwhelming at first. Looks like I have some reading to do.
I do have a couple of questions right now: how serious is my "conflict of interest" tag? The article I'm adding is about my wife. What prompted me to add it was finding an article on our friend T. Thorn Coyle, which has an empty link to an article about my wife (Sharon Knight). I'm not trying to use wikipedia to advertise ourselves, and want to be conscientious about following wiki conventions. I've looked at other artists' pages first to get an idea of what is commonly done. Do all articles have to be authored by someone uninvolved with the subject?
My other question concerns notability. Should I even bother getting this right, or is my "subject" so far below the radar that the article will get pulled anyway?
Thanks for your help. Cheers Winter (talk) 04:36, 16 March 2009 (UTC)Winterjps
Managing a conflict of interest
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Hello, Winterjps. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the article Sharon Knight, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. In particular, please:
- avoid editing or creating articles related to you and your circle, your organization, its competitors, projects or products;
- instead propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (see the {{request edit}} template);
- when discussing affected articles, disclose your COI (see WP:DISCLOSE);
- avoid linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see WP:SPAM);
- 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 familiarize yourself with relevant policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, sourcing and autobiographies. Thank you. - CorbieV ☊ ☼ 00:47, 24 April 2016 (UTC)
In more detail, I'm looking over your contributions and, over the course of the entire seven years you've been here, I don't see a single edit that has not been a conflict of interest. This looks to be a single purpose account, used solely to promote your band, band members and musical collaborators. Almost all of these edits have been made after you were informed about COI on the article you created about your wife (which was your first edit, though the pattern has not changed since then). This can be interpreted as spamming the 'pedia, as well as ignoring policy and warnings, no matter what your intention. - CorbieV ☊ ☼ 03:43, 24 April 2016 (UTC)