User talk:Alanprewrath

January 2013
Hello, Alanprewrath. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Prewrath, you may need to consider our guidance on conflicts of interest.

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Thanks for your email, although as I say on my talk page I'm happier about discussions such as this one being transparent and on-Wiki. You can ask at WP:ELN about your link. I didn't know that Strong Tower was subsidy publishing, there's no basic difference between that and self-publishing from our point of view as I understand it. You might post to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Christianity/Noticeboard about your book. And about the others, which perhaps shouldn't be there either. Dougweller (talk) 16:23, 23 January 2013 (UTC)