User talk:Jstrongshaw

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Hello, Jstrongshaw, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions, especially your edits to Dorothy Brown. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful: Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or and a volunteer will visit you here shortly. Again, welcome! Hugh (talk) 22:06, 22 December 2014 (UTC)
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Hello, Jstrongshaw, and welcome to Wikipedia!&#32;Thank you for your contributions.

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited was Dorothy Brown, which 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.&#32;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. See our help page on userspace drafts for more details. 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.

One 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. Wikipedia generally does not allow editors to have usernames which imply that the account belongs to a company or corporation. If you have a username like this, you should request a change of username or create a new account. (A name that identifies the user as an individual within a given organization may be OK.)

Here are some pages that you might find helpful:
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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place  before the question. Again, welcome! Hugh (talk) 22:24, 22 December 2014 (UTC)

Wikipedia policy prohibits revealing personal information on the identity of fellow editors. However, I feel I must note in passing that Cook County Circuit Court Clerk Dorothy Brown's paid staff press relations officer is named Jalyne R. Strong-Shaw. Perhaps this is a co-incidence or an unfortunate choice of Wikipedia user name; if so, I apologize. Today Recently you deleted content that was deleted yesterday by User:Public Information CCC, and then restored by a fellow editor; may I ask, are you familiar with this user?

In any case I would like to ask you to discuss together several Wikipedia policies and guidelines which may or may not be relevant to your initial contributions, which were mostly deletions:


 * WP:BRD how we avoid edit wars
 * WP:NOT notability, how we decide what to include
 * WP:COI conflicts of interest
 * WP:SOCK multiple accounts

I look forward to hearing from you and answering any questions you might have. I am watching this page so please reply here. Thank you. And again welcome! Hugh (talk) 22:46, 22 December 2014 (UTC)

Also,


 * WP:BLP, special considerations for biographical articles of living persons
 * WP:MINOR, what types of edits are generally considered minor.

Thanks again, Hugh (talk) 23:02, 22 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Ms. Strong-Shaw, it's pretty obvious who you are. A conflict of interest in itself does not necessarily disqualify you from editing, but non-neutral editing does. In addition, I am pretty sure that you are related to User:Public Information CCC, an account I blocked previously. Here is the thing. You can edit here, but you should be very wary of editing articles you have a COI with. So far your edits on Dorothy A. Brown have not been according to our policies: the well-sourced material you removed was in no way libelous, and removing it is already a blockable offense. (If you disagree with that, you can have a look at Volunteer Response Team and perhaps email a volunteer with your comments.) In addition, the material you added to the article is not neutral and smacks of promotion, making your obvious COI even more a violation of our mandate to edit neutrally. In short, I urge you to get into conversation and to be very wary of your conflict of interest. Thank you. Drmies (talk) 17:15, 23 December 2014 (UTC)