User talk:Awindell

Hello
I note that you have created User:Awindell/Blackstone Media. As an employee of the company, you need to be aware of our conflict of interest guidelines. I have looked at the material you have created thus far, and it is far too promotional for a Wikipedia article. In particular, it does not include a single reference to a third party, neutral source. I will watch this article for a couple of days, but if its promotional nature is not remedied by that time, I will be deleting the page as unambiguous advertising or promotion. Below I have included a welcome template that will help you to identify many of our core policies and guidelines. In particular, I urge you to review neutral point of view and reliable sources policies. Risker (talk) 02:26, 24 October 2013 (UTC)

Welcome!
Hello, Awindell, 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 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.)

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