User talk:Downholder40

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July 2011
Please do not add or change content without verifying it by citing reliable sources, as you did to United Press International. Please review the guidelines at Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. HrafnTalkStalk(P) 17:54, 5 July 2011 (UTC)

Please do not add unsourced content, as you did to United Press International. This contravenes Wikipedia's policy on verifiability. If you continue to do so, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia. HrafnTalkStalk(P) 05:23, 6 July 2011 (UTC)

Hello Downholder40. If you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article UPI, you may have a conflict of interest, or close connection to the subject.

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 following the reliable sources and writing with as little bias as possible.

If you are very close to a subject, here are some ways you can reduce the risk of problems:


 * 1) Avoid or exercise great caution when editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with.
 * 2) Be cautious about deletion discussions. Everyone is welcome to provide information about independent sources in deletion discussions, but avoid advocating for deletion of articles about your competitors.
 * 3) Avoid linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Spam).
 * 4) Exercise great caution so that you do not accidentally breach Wikipedia's content policies.

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. ''From the notes on your user page it appears that you may have a conflict of interest on this subject. '' Veriss (talk) 07:41, 6 July 2011 (UTC)

January 2012
Welcome to Wikipedia. It might not have been your intention, but your recent edit removed content from Reuters. When removing content, please specify a reason in the edit summary and discuss edits that are likely to be controversial on the article's talk page. If this was a mistake, don't worry; the content has been restored, as you can see from the [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Reuters&action=history page history]. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia, and if you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. The source is academic research if you have some problems please use talk. Shrike (talk) 07:01, 8 January 2012 (UTC)