User talk:Andrew Moorhouse

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Hello, Andrew Moorhouse, and welcome to Wikipedia!&#32;Thank you for your contributions.

I noticed 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.&#32;Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

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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! Pam D  08:41, 5 February 2021 (UTC)


 * OK, that's a standard templated "Welcome message with potential conflict of interest", and a lot of it doesn't really apply to a one-man business like yours, which I've enjoyed reading about. I noticed your recent edit to Simon Armitage and then saw that all or most of your edits are to add information about your publications. Wikipedia is very wary of advertising and self-promotion, so you should not be doing this. You could add a note to the talk page of an article, with a note acknowledging your "conflict of interest", to suggest that such and such an extra piece of information could be added, providing a source for it, and another editor would then add the content if appropriate. All of your edits seem purely factual and neutral, and indeed informative, but you run the risk that someone will try to block you from editing as a "promotion-only account". Pam  D  08:53, 5 February 2021 (UTC)


 * It's also useful to create a "User page" with something, anything, so that your username appears in blue rather than red in lists of contributions to an article. You could usefully declare make a statement about your connection with Fine Press Poetry, in the interests of transparency, on such a page. Pam  D  08:56, 5 February 2021 (UTC)