User talk:Jdcoates

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I do have to ask that you not list your own bylined magazine pieces if they were not used as actual references to support facts in a Wikipedia article. This is considered a violation of the WP:COI ("Conflict of Interest") behavioral guideline.

Of course, if a footnoted fact does come from one of your articles, then by all means include your article as a footnote citation! But please don't simply add lists of your articles. Indeed, Wikipedia guidelines state that articles are not collections of external links/lists.

Thanks for understanding. As someone who writes frequently about comics professionals and comic-book history here, I and, I'm sure, many other longtime WikiProject Comics editors look forward to knowledgeable, in-depth, articulate and well-researched contributions by a comics journalist/historian such as yourself. If we can be of any help, we're more than glad to offer a hand! Welcome! --Tenebrae (talk) 05:22, 6 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Please do not put names of magazines IN ALL CAPS. They are italicized. Also, if you are solely inserting articles you have written, then that is, again, WP:COI ("Conflict of Interest"), and you must stop. -- Tenebrae (talk) 05:35, 14 March 2010 (UTC)