User talk:C4162
Welcome to Wikipedia
[edit]Welcome!
Hello, C4162, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:
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Your question on the help desk
[edit]Hi C4162, this message is just to inform you that I have moved your question on the Wikipedia help desk to Wikipedia:Requests for feedback as this is the appropriate page for feedback on newly created articles, you can view the discussion by clicking here. Feel free to message me on my talk page if you have any questions. Regards, Jeffrey Mall (talk • contribs) - 14:51, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
Managing a conflict of interest
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Hello, C4162. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places, or things you have written about in the article James Duke Mason, 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);
- when discussing affected articles, disclose your COI (see WP:DISCLOSE);
- avoid linking to the Wikipedia article or to the 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 which forms all or part of work 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. Thank you.