User talk:AlyssaRamos

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AlyssaRamos, good luck, and have fun. – &mdash; MusikAnimal talk 20:42, 12 March 2014 (UTC)

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Thank you. --SineBot (talk) 21:20, 17 March 2014 (UTC)

April 2014
Hello, AlyssaRamos. 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 Dan Bilzerian, you may have a conflict of interest or close connection to the subject.

All editors are required to comply with Wikipedia's neutral point of view content policy. People who are very close to a subject often have a distorted view of it, which may cause them to inadvertently edit in ways that make the article either too flattering or too disparaging. People with a close connection to a subject are not absolutely prohibited from editing about that subject, but they need to be especially careful about ensuring their edits are verified by reliable sources and writing with as little bias as possible.

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 * 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.
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Please familiarize yourself with relevant content 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. —Bagumba (talk) 08:39, 9 April 2014 (UTC)

Dhar Mann
Hello, AlyssaRamos! I understand (and thank you for being upfront about it) that you are the public relations person for Dhar Mann. But that is a reason why you should NOT be editing his article, much less trying to remove anything negative from it. Please read and heed the good advice in the note above this one. You have a conflict of interest and should not be trying to bias the article. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia and must present the verified information using a neutral point of view - not a boosterish or only-the-good-stuff point of view.

Wikipedia articles are based on what we find in reliable sources. Those reliable sources include his reputation as a "ganjapreneur," and they include information about his conviction. In fact, his "ganjapreneur" reputation is the only thing that makes him notable - the only reason his article was not deleted after the recent deletion discussion. Without that information, his article would have been deleted as not meeting Wikipedia's notability standards.

I know this must be frustrating for you, because you feel your job is to control the message. But in this case, you CAN'T control the message, and if you keep trying to whitewash his article you could find yourself getting into trouble for edit warring. If you disagree with me, or feel I am out of line in pointing this out to you, I can request a neutral administrator to talk to you about it. --MelanieN (talk) 22:17, 22 April 2014 (UTC)

Hi Melanie, thank you so much for your response, I apologize, I am new to editing on Wikipedia and didn't even see the above message about Dan's page as well. I will relay the message and discontinue trying to change it. One question though if you don't mind - in the event that he didn't want to be on Wikipedia at all, could his page be taken down, or is that not up to him? Thanks AlyssaRamos (talk) 23:34, 22 April 2014 (UTC) Alyssa
 * Thanks for understanding, Alyssa. I know it can be confusing when you come to "the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit" - and find out that there are limits on what you can say. This is an encyclopedia; it isn't Facebook!
 * If a subject wants their article removed, they can email Wikipedia at info-en-q@wikimedia.org. Information is here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Contact_us_-_Subjects . Trained volunteer Wikipedians will consider his request. He would have to send the message himself, and he may need to prove to them that the message is authentically from him. I'm not sure how they do that but they will tell him.  --MelanieN (talk) 00:51, 23 April 2014 (UTC)
 * BTW since you are new to Wikipedia, you may not have known about the "View history" link at the top of the page. That shows a record of every edit that has been made to the article, by whom, and (usually) why. You may have wondered why your edits were vanishing from the page; if you had looked at the history you would have seen why I was reverting them. --MelanieN (talk) 05:34, 23 April 2014 (UTC)