User talk:Alicezorn

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

I notice that one of the first articles you edited was Arrhythmia (novel), which 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 undone for this very reason.

To reduce the chances of your contributions being undone, you might like to draft your revised article before submission, and then ask me or any other editor to proofread it. See our help page on userspace drafts for more details. If the page you created has already been deleted from Wikipedia, but you want to save the content from it to use for that draft, don't hesitate to ask anyone from this list and they will copy it to your user page.

One firm rule we do have in connection with conflicts of interest is that accounts used by more than one person will unfortunately be blocked from editing. Wikipedia generally does not allow editors to have usernames which imply that the account belongs to a company or corporation. If you have a username like this, you should request a change of username or create a new account. (A name that identifies the user as an individual within a given organization may be OK.)

Here are some pages that you might find helpful: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place  before the question. Again, welcome! Nat Gertler (talk) 15:53, 6 October 2013 (UTC)
 * The plain and simple conflict of interest guide
 * The five pillars of Wikipedia
 * Tutorial
 * How to edit a page and How to develop articles
 * How to create your first article (using the Article Wizard if you wish)
 * Simplified Manual of Style

Editing your own page
Alice,

As a fellow author who also has a Wikipedia page against them, let me caution you against doing major edits on the Wikipedia page about you. The edits will be viewed with strong doubt and are likely to be reverted. (You may want to review the Wikipedia guidelines for editing topics on which you have a conflict of interest.) Instead, raise your concerns on the talk page for the article, make suggestions there; this allows some third party to look over what you're asking for and address it with a more neutral eye. It's generally worked for me. (I think I've done two actual edits to my own page, one correcting the format of an ISBN number, the other reverting blatant vandalism; edits like that will usually be understood.) --Nat Gertler (talk) 16:08, 6 October 2013 (UTC)