User talk:Aquascience

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Hello, Aquascience, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion 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! -- Jytdog (talk) 23:52, 27 March 2015 (UTC)
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Hello Aquascience, and welcome to Wikipedia. Your addition to AquaBounty Technologies has had to be removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material without permission from the copyright holder. While we appreciate your contributing to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from your sources to avoid copyright or plagiarism issues here.


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It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Jytdog (talk) 23:53, 27 March 2015 (UTC)

Conflict of interest warning
Hello, Aquascience. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest or close connection to the subject.

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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. Jytdog (talk) 23:53, 27 March 2015 (UTC)

hi
Hi - from your edits it seems that you work for on behalf of AquaBounty Technologies. Please let me know if that is true. Thanks. Jytdog (talk) 23:54, 27 March 2015 (UTC)

Yes, I am director of communications for AquaBounty. If I cannot correct the errors on this page then can you do that for me? If not, then how is one to provide the correct information? Aquascience (talk) 00:10, 28 March 2015 (UTC)


 * Thanks for answering! You are what we call a "paid editor".  Please read WP:COI and follow what it says there.  Key points are:
 * 1) per the Terms of Use, you need to disclose your role at Aquabounty. Please do that on your userpage, which is User:Aquascience.
 * 2) please do not edit the article directly. Instead, if you want something changed, please ask for the change to made on the article's Talk page.  I watch that article, as do others, and we will see your request and will work with you on it.  Whatever goes into the article needs to comply with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines... we are an encyclopedia, not a directory or vehicle for promotion...  (please see WP:NOT)
 * 3) please keep in mind that everybody here is a volunteer. things take time. since we are an encyclopedia and not a newspaper, there is WP:NODEADLINE here, so please be patient.
 * thanks again.. see you around! Jytdog (talk) 00:26, 28 March 2015 (UTC)

OK; lots of reading to do I see. I will provide my suggested corrections on this page and then you can tell me what is acceptable and what is not. This is my first time interacting with Wikipedia so I have a learning curve to climb. Thanks for all the info. Aquascience (talk) 00:35, 28 March 2015 (UTC)
 * yeah sorry there is a lot to learn. but you seem plenty reasonable so it should be more or less painless. as for suggestions, please leave suggestions for the article, on the article's talk page. here: Talk:AquaBounty Technologies. thanks. Jytdog (talk) 00:36, 28 March 2015 (UTC)

It appears that somebody is having fun changing the first paragraph in our entry, see: AquaBounty Technologies is a biotechnology company, engaged in the research, development, and commercialization of products that aim to genetically modify fish so they have arms and legs and thereby increase the productivity of aquaculture.[2]