User talk:David Balaban

Welcome
 Hello David Balaban, and Welcome to Wikipedia!  Welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you enjoy the encyclopedia and want to stay. As a first step, you may wish to read the Introduction.

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David Balaban, good luck, and have fun. --Aboutmovies (talk) 06:20, 31 October 2012 (UTC)

October 2012
Hello, David Balaban. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Be Here Now (book), you may need to consider our guidance on conflicts of interest.

All editors are required to comply with Wikipedia's neutral point of view content policy. People who are very close to a subject often have a distorted view of it, which may cause them to inadvertently edit in ways that make the article either too flattering or too disparaging. People with a close connection to a subject are not absolutely prohibited from editing about that subject, but they need to be especially careful about ensuring their edits are verified by reliable sources and writing with as little bias as possible.

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Please familiarize yourself with relevant content 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. Yworo (talk) 15:54, 31 October 2012 (UTC)

In particular, the "Be Here Now Foundation" is unrelated to the book and the article on the book is not an appropriate place to add an uncited promotional blurb: it is a different topic and our articles cover only single, not multiple, topics. If the Foundation meets our notability requirements for organizations, then an article can be written on the Foundation. If it does not meet our notability requirements, there is no reason to mention it anywhere on Wikipedia. Finally, since you are clearly the same person who initially added the same material as User:Beherenowfoundation, you have a conflict of interest. You should not be adding anything about the Foundation to Wikipedia at all, but should leave it to other editors unconnected to the Foundation to decide whether and where such an addition would be appropriate. You may, if you think the Foundation meets our notability requirements, submit a request for another editor to write the article at the requested articles page. Yworo (talk) 16:02, 31 October 2012 (UTC)