User talk:CCJA-ACJP

Your submission at Articles for creation: William Thomas (Bill) McGrath has been accepted
 William Thomas (Bill) McGrath, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.

You are more than welcome to continue making quality contributions to Wikipedia. . Thank you for helping improve Wikipedia! Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 19:54, 12 September 2017 (UTC)
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Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, CCJA-ACJP. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places, or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic, and it is important when editing Wikipedia articles that such connections be completely transparent. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. In particular, we ask that you please:


 * avoid editing or creating articles related to you and your family, friends, school, company, club, or organization, as well as any competing companies' projects or products;
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Please take a few moments to read and review Wikipedia's policies regarding conflicts of interest, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, sourcing and autobiographies.

Also please note that editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. GABgab 20:15, 12 September 2017 (UTC)

Fair point, thanks.

I've read the guidelines, and they all seem to say "avoid" creating ... Please note that I only created this page after accomplishing my larger goal, which was to produce other articles about criminal-justice history in Canada (note, too, that they're longer and more detailed). I did try my best to maintain a neutral tone in the article, and to carefully cite everything I wrote.

I hope this won't effect the existence of this page, which I truly believe is valuable to the historical record related to Canadian criminal-justice history. Regardless, thanks again for bringing this to my attention. CCJA-ACJP (talk) 20:31, 12 September 2017 (UTC)

September 2017
Welcome to Wikipedia. Because we have a policy against usernames which give the impression that the account represents a group, organization or website, I have blocked this account; please take a moment to create a new account with a username that represents only yourself as an individual and which complies with our username policy or request a change of username. You should also read our conflict of interest guideline and be aware that promotional editing is not acceptable regardless of the username you choose. If your username does not represent a group, organization or website, you may appeal this username block by adding the text at the bottom of your talk page. You may simply create a new account, but you may prefer to change your username to one that complies with our username policy, so that your past contributions are associated with your new username. If you would prefer to change your username, you may appeal this username block by adding the text at the bottom of your talk page. Thank you. GoldenRing (talk) 10:16, 13 September 2017 (UTC)