User talk:Bakirfarhi

January 2014
Hello, I'm John Cline. I wanted to let you know that I undid one of your recent contributions, such as the one you made with this edit to Mean, because it didn’t appear constructive to me. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. —John Cline (talk) 11:36, 3 January 2014 (UTC)

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Edit warring, promotion, and conflict of interest
I see that you have been repeatedly trying to put a link to your article into the Wikipedia article Mean. There are several problems with this. Firstly, repeatedly making the same, or very similar, changes to a page when one or more editors have reverted those changes, known as "edit warring", is considered unhelpful. Instead, it is more helpful to collaborate with others, and to try to reach a consensus rather than repeatedly undoing other users' edits once it is known that there is a disagreement. If you find yourself in an editing dispute, use the article's talk page to discuss controversial changes; work towards a version that represents consensus among editors. Secondly, you have added your link as a "reference", but it does not appear to me that it in any way supports any of the statements in the article. It seems rather to be an attempt to call attention to your work. Wikipedia is not a medium for promoting or publicising anything. Thirdly, Wikipedia's conflict of interest guidelines strongly discourage editing on a subject in which you have a direct connection, as you evidently do in this case. If you continue to edit in the same way, you are likely to be blocked from editing. You are, of course, welcome to contribute in a neutral way to the encyclopaedia, but not to use Wikipedia to promote your work. JamesBWatson (talk) 14:10, 3 January 2014 (UTC)