User talk:BJS.Farrauto

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Hello, BJS.Farrauto, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions, especially what you did for Brad Sherman. 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! -- Cirt (talk) 18:42, 10 September 2010 (UTC)
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September 2010
Welcome to Wikipedia. We welcome and appreciate your contributions, including your edits to Brad Sherman, but we cannot accept original research. Original research also encompasses novel, unpublished syntheses of previously published material. Please be prepared to cite a reliable source for all of your information. Thank you. -- Cirt (talk) 16:49, 14 September 2010 (UTC)

Conflict of interest at page Brad Sherman
Welcome to Wikipedia. If you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Brad Sherman, you may have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, edits where there is a conflict of interest, or where such a conflict might reasonably be inferred, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:
 * 1) editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with;
 * 2) participating in deletion discussions about articles related to your organization or its competitors; and
 * 3) linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Spam).

Please familiarize yourself with relevant 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. -- Cirt (talk) 16:58, 14 September 2010 (UTC) Hi BJS.Farrauto. It seems you've run up against some of our core policies in that article, which is why your edits keep getting reverted. Please don't get into an edit-war over this, as those almost always lead to revocation of editing ability. Rather, here are some tips as to exactly what the problems are. Please click the links for more detailed information on each: I hope this helps! Arakunem Talk 19:26, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
 * First, please review our Guidelines for editing when you have a potential Conflict Of Interest). In a nutshell, if you have a close connection to a topic (which you appear to in this case), you are strongly discouraged from making direct edits to the article. I realize this seems counter-intuitive, as you would naturally assume to have the most knowledge of the topic. While this is often true, over time we have found that many such editors have a tendency, even unconsciously, to not maintain a Neutral Point of View in their edits. This doesn't mean we don't want the benefits of your knowledge (quote the contrary, we welcome it!), but just that you need to take special steps to ensure it gets added according to our policy. The best way to do this is to make edits to the article's Talk Page (the "discussion" tab that every article has), and describe the nature of the edits you want to make. Discussion then happens, and the agreed-upon text gets added to the article by an uninvolved editor, which keeps everything nice and neutral.
 * Speaking of neutrality, your recent edits included language that was non-encyclopedic in tone, but sound more like press releases or campaign blurbs: "Imposing tough sanctions against Iran is one of Congressman Sherman’s top priorities", "Sherman proved that at least one elected official has a good sense of humor", and so on. It is important that all text in articles is completely neutral in tone and doesn't try to impress an opinion on the reader, either positive or negative. The way to look at this is: one should not be able to tell from the article whether the author loves or hates the subject.
 * Lastly, we need to ensure that the edits you make include information that is Verifiable through Reliable Sources that are unrelated to the topic itself. The rule of thumb for this bit is: We don't write about things we know, we write about things that others have already written about. Wikipedia is a "tertiary source" in that regards.

November 2010
Please stop the promo edits and conflict of interest edits at article page Brad Sherman. -- Cirt (talk) 03:24, 2 November 2010 (UTC)