User talk:AlexMission

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Hello, AlexMission, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.

I notice that one of the first articles you edited appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article. Your recent contributions may have already been reverted for this very reason.

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Mission Sports Managment citations
The citations that you've been adding to various sportsmen and women's articles about "Mission Sports Managememt" do not confirm that they are indeed managed by the company (anyone can set up a website and add pages on someone). To add these statements to Wikipedia a a reliable and verifiable source should be referenced. Unless one is the material may be challenged or removed, as I've done on a number of pages already - Ba se me nt 12  (T.C) 16:15, 27 April 2011 (UTC)

Mission Sport references
Thank you for contacting me about the editing that I am doing. I can confirm that Mission Sports Management do represent the athletes whose pages I am editing. Although I understand that anyone can make a website and put profiles on it, is there any way to show that Mission Sports are their representatives?
 * You would need to find a third party, reliable source for each athlete in question, for example a newspaper or magazine article that mentions the management company. At the moment your efforts look like WP:CITESPAM in an effort to promote the company. And please sign all your talk page comments by using four tildes ( ~ ) after your post to leave your username the time and date. Thanks - Ba se me nt 12  (T.C) 16:25, 27 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Ok understood. Are the other updates to the athletes medal records all allowed under the Wikipedia rules? AlexMission (talk) 16:53, 27 April 2011 (UTC)
 * On this one, I can't speak for other sports, but for cycling we have discussed before which medals should be included. We have no doubt about medals for senior world, continental and major multi-sport championships. However, there is more debate for junior championships. We generally would not include medals for World Cups. We order the medals first by colour, then by year, first to last. Hope this helps :) SeveroTC 18:57, 27 April 2011 (UTC)

Just an idea, but one area where you could really help is by sourcing/providing photos of your people that meet Wikipedia standards. Photos are always one of the most difficult areas to improve (see NYT). Take a look at Images which details the image use policy - in a nut shell, if you could help to provide quality images with a Creative Commons license, they would almost definitely be used and make a positive contribution to Wikipedia, not to mention your athletes! If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask :) SeveroTC 19:07, 27 April 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know about the medal table information, will make sure I stick to those guidelines. As far as photos are concerned I will see what I can do after I have read the Image use policy. AlexMission (talk) 08:54, 3 May 2011 (UTC)

Severo, if I have found the medal results for the athletes whose pages I have been updating on their agency's website, is that a credible source to quote as a reference on the page as well? Thanks. AlexMission (talk) 08:29, 4 May 2011 (UTC)
 * You mean on the website of the agency that the sportsperson employs? This would not normally count as a reliable third-party source. But, for results, there are often results archives websites which are often reliable and can be used (for cycling results we often use http://www.cyclingarchives.com - but it is a little thin for track results). SeveroTC 10:13, 4 May 2011 (UTC)