User talk:Funk1975

November 2013
Hello, I'm ElKevbo. I wanted to let you know that I removed one or more references you added because it's quite odd that your only edits have been to add references from one particular author which makes it appear that you are promoting him or her instead of contributing new and useful information to this encyclopedia. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page, or take a look at our guidelines about links. Thank you. ElKevbo (talk) 18:30, 29 November 2013 (UTC)

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Hi Funk1975. Instructional design and so forth! We need experts in that field here. I notice you've added a bunch of refs to some articles to get started. That's great. Some of us old hands pore over new people's edits, and based on the pattern of your edits so far, we're worried about a Conflict of interest here. It's not necessarily a flat-out deal-killer or anything. If you read that page (I recommend it) you'll see that it's complicated.

We like to see people who come with here with expertise to be citing and drawing from work by a variety of different people. It's complicated because of course there are times when one person is a main go-to source, or when an editor is particularly versed in the work of one person, and so on. But think of it like this: drawing from a wide variety of sources by many writers is an opportunity to expand one's knowledge of the corpus of a given field, maybe.

If there is a conflict of interest, it's a good idea to be transparent about it. Otherwise we tend to get a little edgy. I mean you don't have to, but then we're left to make inferences and work from there. If (or even if not) you're a credentialed expert in the field, of course we don't want to put you off! We'd like your valuable contributions. Editing Wikipedia articles is a great thing and I hope you stay and continue to contribute. As you might imagine for such a popular website, we're bombarded with people trying to promote themselves too though, so we walk a fine line.

Anyway, that's we are right now. Looking forward to working with you going forward, Herostratus (talk) 07:00, 30 November 2013 (UTC)