User talk:Crystal829

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place  on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome! — Kralizec! (talk) 19:54, 29 October 2011 (UTC)

Your edits to Associated Banc-Corp
Hello Crystal829. If you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Associated Banc-Corp, 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 you, 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. — Kralizec! (talk) 09:44, 9 November 2011 (UTC)

RE: Your email
Thank you for your email, but in the interest of transparency, discussions regarding Wikipedia articles should take place on a Wikipedia talk page (like this one) so that any other interested parties may review and participate. Here are a few suggestions I can make:


 * As per the Manual of style, only the first letter of a section header and proper nouns are capitilized, rather than every word. So as per WP:Section caps, "Regional Presence" should be "Regional presence".
 * Please consider using an edit summary each time you make an edit, as that will help your fellow editors better understand your changes.
 * Wiki markup should be used on Wikipedia articles rather than HTML code.
 * When adding a citation, you should make sure that the source actually says what you are citing. As an example, the citation you added in this edit is not actually supported by the listed source.
 * When adding specific numbers to articles (like here), you should strongly consider citing them to a reliable, third-party, published source. You did a great job of that with this edit.

However most importantly, you should be aware that our conflict of interest rules specifically prohibit "contributing to Wikipedia in order to promote your own interests or those of other individuals, companies, or groups." While improving an article is perfectly fine (and as a stub, the Associated Banc-Corp article could use a lot of improving), doing so to promote a marketing company's customer is not.

Please let me know if you have any questions, concerns, or issues. Thanks, — Kralizec! (talk) 00:26, 11 November 2011 (UTC)