User talk:Houston RiceU

Hello, Houston RiceU, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.

I notice that one of the first articles you edited appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article. Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

To reduce the chances of your contributions being undone, you might like to draft your revised article before submission, and then ask me or any other editor to proofread it. To start creating a draft article, just click your user name at the top of the screen when you are logged in, and edit that page as you would any other. If the page you created has already been deleted from Wikipedia, but you want to save the content from it to use for that draft, don't hesitate to ask anyone from this list and they will copy it to your user page.

The one firm rule we do have in connection with conflicts of interest is that accounts used by more than one person will unfortunately be blocked from editing. It is also worth noting that Wikipedia generally does not allow editors to have usernames which specifically link them to one company or corporation. If your username does have such a name, it would be advisable for you to request a change of username.

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Question for administrator


--Houston RiceU (talk) 17:13, 30 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Hello, as you can see from the message above, you need to be aware of our COI guidelines and I suggest that you open discussion at the article's discussion page before making any further edits. But more importantly, your username is not allowed by our username policy because it appears to represent the school rather than you, the individual editor. I must insist that you make a request here to have your account renamed to something that clearly represents only you.
 * As for adding a photo to the article: it is a fairly simple process, but you will need to have at least a basic understanding of our copyright policies, so you should probably start by reading this page. I hope this didn't come across too harsh, but some of our rules are very important to follow, particularly as the article in question is a biography of a living person.
 * I am leaving this request open for now so that another administrator may comment, but if you have any further questions, please feel free to ask. ​—DoRD (talk)​ 22:26, 30 March 2012 (UTC)


 * I must second DoRD's request that a username change be completed before any request can go forward. Once that process has run its course then questions of images and the policies that govern their use may be discussed.  Tide  rolls  01:11, 31 March 2012 (UTC)