User talk:Joshyslas

Your recent edits
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Conflict of interest
If you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about, you may have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, edits where there is a conflict of interest, or where such a conflict might reasonably be inferred, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:
 * 1) editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with;
 * 2) participating in deletion discussions about articles related to your organization or its competitors; and
 * 3) linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Spam).

Please familiarize yourself with relevant policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, verifiability of information, and autobiographies.

For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. JamesBWatson (talk) 11:43, 2 March 2010 (UTC)

Adding links to articles
Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to David Toledo (artist). Wikipedia is not a collection of links. 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 links should be added to the article, please discuss then on the article's talk page rather than re-adding it. Thank you. JamesBWatson (talk) 12:29, 2 March 2010 (UTC)

Existence and notability
I see that you made a post on Duffbeerforme's talk page, in which you said, amongst other things, "His [David Toledo's] involvement with Unified Outreach is very real and easily authenticated". Wikipedia is not a discriminate collection of information on everything, and for a subject to warrant an article it is not sufficient for it to really exist: it must also be notable. What Wikipedia regards as "notable" is defined in a number of guidelines. I suggest you look at the general notability guideline and the notability of people guideline to get an idea what is required. You may also like to look at Existence ≠ Notability, which is not an official guideline or policy document, but is still quite useful in explaining the distinction. JamesBWatson (talk) 12:43, 2 March 2010 (UTC)


 * Let me clearly add that multiple votes in an AFD is disruptive may lead to a block ... and WP:SOCK violations (especially with both accounts vote in the same AFD) is an immediate block ... let me know if I can clarify further. ( talk→  BWilkins   ←track ) 17:11, 3 March 2010 (UTC)