User talk:Dburkhead


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Nomination of Lawyers in Hell for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Lawyers in Hell is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Lawyers in Hell until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on good quality evidence, and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion template from the top of the article. Orange Mike  &#x007C;   Talk  01:04, 24 June 2011 (UTC)

Conflict of interest and self-advancement
Hello Dburkhead. If you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Lawyers in Hell, 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 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. -- Orange Mike  &#x007C;   Talk  01:13, 24 June 2011 (UTC)


 * Interesting how "conflict of interest" is being used in order to shut down people who are actually knowledgeable about a topic. It's basically being used as a form of argument ad hominem--argument based on who says something rather than the content of what is said.  My edits have been limited to a brief, factual synopses of a story listing major characters and settings so as to link to those characters and settings own Wikipedia articles.  There is nothing in the least unethical about doing so and attempts to brand it so by loaded terms like "conflict of interest" are themselves questionable (in the larger sense, regardless of the details of Wikipedias written standards) and fallacious.

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