User talk:Chuck.julian

May 2008

If you have a close connection to some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Pere Marquette 1225, 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 from the tone of the edit and the proximity of the editor to the subject, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:

1. editing articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with;
2. participating in deletion discussions about articles related to your organization or its competitors;
3. linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam);

   and you must always:

4. avoid breaching relevant policies and guidelines, especially neutral point of view, verifiability, and autobiography.

For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have conflict of interest, please see Wikipedia:Business' FAQ. For more details about what constitutes a conflict of interest, please see Wikipedia:Conflict of Interest. Thank you. Also, to avoid potential problems regarding Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, please add citations to reliable sources that are independent of the subject. Slambo (Speak) 17:46, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

I see you've added your name to the Trains WikiProject participants list. If you take some time to browse through the WikiProject discussion area, you'll see that I'm a frequent contributor there too. We've been working hard to ensure that data on rail transport related articles is fully cited to reliable sources that are independent of the subject and therefore verifiable by independent researchers. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask. Slambo (Speak) 17:55, 21 May 2008 (UTC)