User talk:Coastda/Archive

Spam in Joshua Marquis
Hello, this is a message from an automated bot. A tag has been placed on Joshua Marquis, by another Wikipedia user, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. The tag claims that it should be speedily deleted because Joshua Marquis is blatant advertising for a company, product, group, service or person that would require a substantial rewrite in order to become an encyclopedia article. To contest the tagging and request that administrators wait before possibly deleting Joshua Marquis, please affix the template to the page, and put a note on its talk page. If the article has already been deleted, see the advice and instructions at WP:WMD. Feel free to contact the bot operator if you have any questions about this or any problems with this bot, bearing in mind that '''this bot is only informing you of the nomination for speedy deletion; it does not perform any nominations or deletions itself. To see the user who deleted the page, click here''' CSDWarnBot (talk) 02:40, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Joshua Marquis
I have nominated Joshua Marquis, an article you created, for deletion. I do not think that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Articles for deletion/Joshua Marquis. Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time. SchuminWeb (Talk) 02:45, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject Orphanage
While it is good that you have added links to Joshua Marquis, WikiProject Orphanage has to do with how many incoming links the article has from other articles. Please read WP:O, and check out what links to Joshua Marquis. I have added an orphan tag to the article. Looking at the article, I would also suggest you read WP:Footnotes, which will give you the Wikipedia-standard on how to reference your article. I would also suggest you read our Manual of Style. Happy editing!--Aervanath lives in the Orphanage 16:51, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

About COI
If you have a close connection to some of the people, places or things you have written about, 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 from the tone of the edit and the proximity of the editor to the subject, 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;
 * 3) linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Spam); and,
 * 4) avoid breaching 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 conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for businesses. For more details about what, exactly, constitutes a conflict of interest, please see our conflict of interest guidelines. Katr67 (talk) 21:51, 19 December 2008 (UTC)