User talk:Dbickers

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Hello, Dbickers, 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 talk 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! --Lexein (talk) 17:32, 17 December 2012 (UTC)
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Book mention
Thanks for contributing the photo to Canyon Lake, California, and to Commons - it's excellent. The book mention, however, is in jeopardy because although I personally do not doubt the book's existence: I have modified your edit as a self-published (Lulu) "primary sourced" claim (the book itself), moved the publisher information to an inline citation, and removed the online purchase link, per usual. Other editors may not wish to retain the book mention based on stronger criteria. Two questions:
 * Wikipedia requires independent WP:verification in reliable sources for all claims made in Wikipedia articles. This means reviews. See this concise blurb: WP:42.
 * Wikipedia is extraordinarily allergic to WP:PROMO, so I've toned down everything promotional about your edit.
 * Editors with a vested interest in an edit or article, such as yourself (about the book), have a "conflict of interest". In such cases, they should not perform that edit, but should request it in Talk, for discussion and possible addition to the article by other editors.
 * Got any reviews published in any papers outside the Canyon Lake area?
 * Is there an ISBN number (the Lulu page doesn't indicate one)? --Lexein (talk) 17:31, 17 December 2012 (UTC)