User talk:Conniefield

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Hello, Conniefield, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. 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! Johnuniq (talk) 01:38, 23 June 2011 (UTC)
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Your user name
I see that your first contribution was in 2007, so your account is well established. However, you may encounter an issue due to your user name because there is a policy about using the name of a well known person. If my user name was "melgibson", I would have to either prove that I was Mel Gibson, or put a prominent notice on my user page saying that I am not "the" Mel Gibson. The method of proof involves certain email—see WP:REALNAME.

Another issue concerns a possible conflict of interest (see WP:COI). I am not concerned about either of these points, but I am mentioning them because sooner or later you will encounter an editor who forcefully makes statements about COI or whatever, and you may want to be prepared for that. You can edit an article in which you have a COI provided you do so with caution (in brief, stick to well-sourced facts; don't insert peacock terms of praise; don't make an article read like what would be expected on a personal website).

I have seen Fair Play and it was excellent. If you have any questions please reply here (or you can put a new section on my talk page using the link in my signature). Johnuniq (talk) 01:38, 23 June 2011 (UTC)

Have You Heard From Johannesburg?
I noticed your edits at Have You Heard From Johannesburg?. More information is good, although it needs to be verifiable. However, what you have done needs reworking, and I will see if I can do some editing myself, although that is unlikely to be for a day or two. There is far too much in the infobox (at the top, on the right hand side). I am not familiar with Wikipedia's conventions in this area, but clearly "starring" means two or three stars, not everyone appearing (there are many great people, but no real "stars" in the doco). The film names in bold caps will have to be toned down, and probably a blank line inserted before each so they display as separate paragraphs. Bad news: the reviews have to be removed as they are not encyclopedic information. Ideally, a secondary source (e.g. an indepth article from a major media outlet) would have written about the project, and material from there could be paraphrased into the article, with the source as a reference.

I should raise these issues on the talk page of the article (Talk:Have You Heard From Johannesburg?, which you can reach by clicking "discussion" at the top of the article), but I thought it may be better here for now. I'll do some editing in due course. Johnuniq (talk) 01:38, 23 June 2011 (UTC)