User talk:Jddsd

Problems with Joel Dykstra article
Hello! By your user name, I'm assuming you are state Rep. Joel D. Dykstra and the subject of Wikipedia's Joel Dykstra article. Unfortunately, your three edits have violated some of Wikipedia's policies/guidelines.


 * 1) Your edits have violated the Conflict of Interest policy and Autobiography guideline. This article is not your personal webpage and you don't own it.  Please read through those policies so you'll know in the future what you can and cannot edit about this article.  If you want a major change, please discuss it first on the talk page.
 * 2) The information you put into the article is taken word for word from your official bio. It doesn't break Wikipedia's copyright policy (I can't find any copyright on your website at all), but it's still frowned on to copy and paste text from sites outside Wikipedia.  We can use the info in your bio to improve your article, but it can't be a direct copy of your bio.
 * 3) You should have discussed removing the content you removed. We're all working together to create an encyclopedia.  You have to work with other editors.  If you disagree with something in the article, please discuss it on the talk page.  Plus, you removed notable content, specifically there's no mention now of your senate race.  Without that, the article is in danger of being deleted.

We hope you will continue to contribute to Wikipedia, but please keep these policies in mind. Also, a great way for you to contribute would be to upload a free license picture of yourself that we can use for the article. The only pictures I can find of you are on the internet and they might only count as fair use pictures. But if you upload your own picture as a free license, then we can definately use that. That would be very helpful. - Lex 21:41, 16 October 2007 (UTC)