User talk:Dai Berry

Hello, Dai Berry. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest or close connection to the subject.

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 * Your name does make it appear that you are David Berry himself, so I'd really like you to read over our general editing policies. It's not that you can't edit your own page, it's just that you have to be very, very careful about what and how much you do in order to avoid the typical concerns of someone with a conflict of interest coming on to edit their page. I'd also like to explain why I've been removing sources. The basic reason is that the sources only list you briefly as a reference. Being used as a reference is, at most, considered to be a WP:TRIVIAL source on Wikipedia. It can't really show notability when it comes down to it and in this instance when we've already established notability, it's considered to be rather superfluous. What we need at this particular point in time would be sources that would go into more depth for you as a person. The other biggie is that the blog for Becky Lees is considered to be a blog. She is in charge of the Chester Students' Union, but it would be considered to be somewhat iffy if we ran it through the reliable sources noticeboard (WP:RSN). Since this is a trivial source at best, it's generally just better to remove them. The thing to remember about trivial sources is that having a lot of them on the page doesn't really do anything to show notability, even if they were posted in a major place.


 * That said, I don't think you are editing in bad faith, you're just trying to add more sources. I just really wanted to warn you about the whole COI thing because people tend to be a little overly cautious about stuff like that. You can still edit, but you need to be very careful and read over our basic policy guidelines carefully to avoid any big issues. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)   11:17, 8 March 2014 (UTC)