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CutOffTies (
talk) 17:12, 9 May 2011 (UTC)
Your content is unsourced, but in general it is not a good idea to do these similar additions to multiple articles all at once. It has the feeling of promoting the CNBC website/poll more than actually improving the articles. Thank you -- CutOffTies ( talk) 17:18, 9 May 2011 (UTC)
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CutOffTies (
talk) 17:31, 9 May 2011 (UTC)
Hello Laurenrose3091. If you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things
you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a
conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's
neutral point of view policy, edits where there is a conflict of interest, or where such a conflict might reasonably be inferred, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:
- editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with;
- participating in deletion discussions about articles related to your organization or its competitors; and
- linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam).
Please familiarize yourself with relevant policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, verifiability of information, and autobiographies.
For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Thank you. You seem to have a connection to CNBC CutOffTies ( talk) 17:32, 9 May 2011 (UTC)
Please stop your
disruptive editing. If you continue to violate Wikipedia's
neutral point of view policy by adding commentary and your personal analysis into articles, as you did at
Talk:Texas with
this edit, you may be
blocked from editing.
Meph
talk 18:42, 9 May 2011 (UTC)
Please do not continue to revert your edits on the Minnesota page without discussion on the article [ page]. Be mindful of the three revert rule and the fact that violating it can bring a block on editing. SeanNovack ( talk) 18:47, 9 May 2011 (UTC)
- Thank you for commenting here. To clarify, the article does not belong to me, or to anybody. The Wikipedia Project is designed to be a collaborative effort of all editors working to improve the articles. There are policies in place, however, to ensure that the information here is as accurate as possible with a collaborative effort. One of these policies includes the three revert rule, which you violated. I put in a report before you made this comment, but since you are willing to discuss things I will pull it.
- Contributions have to be verifiable, reliably sourced, and the information has to be relevent and notable. I encourage you to familiarize yourself with the Five Pillars of Wikipedia and other policies before putting in mass edits in order to avoid unintentional infractions and rubbing others the wrong way. I don't believe you are one, based on your comment above, but know that there are a lot of point-of-view pushers and intentional vandals that troll the articles. I also recomment the Wikipedia:New contributors' help page. Finally, please "sign" your posts on talk pages (not articles!) with 4 "tildies" that look like a "~", this puts your username and a timestamp on the comment. Happy editing! SeanNovack ( talk) 19:48, 9 May 2011 (UTC)
First, please read out policy on conflict of interest and single-purpose accounts. Though CNBC meets our reliable sources policies, we do not permit canvassing of links, regardless of quality. OhNoitsJamie Talk 18:07, 11 May 2011 (UTC)
Which article are you discussing? Laurenrose3091 ( talk) 18:17, 11 May 2011 (UTC)
- Read the links posted above. Every one of your contributions has been to add a link to CNBC. That's called a "single purpose account," and it implies a "conflict of interest." OhNoitsJamie Talk 18:24, 11 May 2011 (UTC)
I don't see any links. Laurenrose3091 ( talk) 18:27, 11 May 2011 (UTC)
- When words are the color blue, it means they are links. I bolded them to make it easier. OhNoitsJamie Talk 18:32, 11 May 2011 (UTC)