User talk:Gizmowriter

Here's wishing you a welcome to Wikipedia, Gizmowriter. Thank you for your contributions. Here are some useful links, which have information to help editors get the most out of Wikipedia:
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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! If you have any questions, feel free to leave me a message on my talk page, consult Questions, or place helpme on your talk page and ask your question there.

Again, welcome! Jytdog (talk) 10:56, 29 March 2016 (UTC)

Spam
You have added many links to topgizmo.com. Your username makes it appear that you are affiliated with that website. I have reverted them as spam.

Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a collection of links, nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate links include, but are not limited to, links to personal websites, links to websites with which you are affiliated (whether as a link in article text, or a citation in an article), and links that attract visitors to a website or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam guideline for further explanations. Because Wikipedia uses the nofollow attribute value, its external links are disregarded by most search engines. If you feel the link should be added to the page, please discuss it on the associated talk page rather than re-adding it. Thank you. Jytdog (talk) 10:58, 29 March 2016 (UTC)

Reliable sourcing
Please make sure you read WP:RS which is our guideline for sourcing content in Wikipedia. Several of the sources you have been provided have been to wikis or wikipedia mirrors. Please see WP:CIRCULAR and WP:SPS. If you have any questions about that, please feel free to ask me here. Jytdog (talk) 10:59, 29 March 2016 (UTC)

Conflict of interest in Wikipedia
Hi Gizmowriter I work on conflict of interest issues here in Wikipedia. As I noted above, several of your edits to date have added links to topgizmo.com. I'm giving you notice of our Conflict of Interest guideline and Terms of Use, and will have some comments and requests for you below.

Hello, Gizmowriter. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. In particular, please:


 * avoid editing or creating articles related to you and your circle, your organization, its competitors, projects or products;
 * instead propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (see the request edit template);
 * when discussing affected articles, disclose your COI (see WP:DISCLOSE);
 * avoid linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see WP:SPAM);
 * exercise great caution so that you do not violate Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID).

Please familiarize yourself with relevant policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, sourcing and autobiographies. Thank you.

Comments and requests
Wikipedia is a widely-used reference work and managing conflict of interest is essential for ensuring the integrity of Wikipedia and retaining the public's trust in it. As in academia, COI is managed here in two steps - disclosure and a form of peer review. Please note that there is no bar to being part of the Wikipedia community if you want to be involved in articles where you have a conflict of interest; there are just some things we ask you to do (and if you are paid, some things you need to do).

Disclosure is the most important, and first, step. While I am not asking you to disclose your identity (anonymity is strictly protecting by our WP:OUTING policy) would you please disclose if you have some connection with topgizmo or any of the other sites to which you have linked? You can answer how ever you wish (giving personally identifying information or not), but if there is a connection, please disclose it. After you respond (and you can just reply below), perhaps we can talk a bit about editing Wikipedia, to give you some more orientation to how this place works. Please reply here just below this - I am watching this page. Thanks! Jytdog (talk) 11:00, 29 March 2016 (UTC)

Sources for articles within Wikipedia project Medicine
Hi Gizmowriter. Please read WP:MEDRS; the Hair loss article falls within its requirements. Information from non-medical sources is likely to be removed from such articles, along with any links to such sources. Thanks for reading this. Haploidavey (talk) 10:36, 18 October 2016 (UTC)

September 2021
Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did at Gaming computer, you may be blocked from editing. It is considered spamming and Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or promotion. Because Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, additions of links to Wikipedia will not alter search engine rankings.  MrOllie (talk) 11:32, 28 September 2021 (UTC)