User talk:K8knitz

Welcome
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K8knitz, good luck, and have fun. – Aboutmovies (talk) 14:44, 12 August 2014 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, K8knitz. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the page Michael Berland, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:


 * avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization or competitors;
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 * disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see Conflict of interest);
 * avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see WP:Spam);
 * do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. MB 18:22, 7 November 2019 (UTC)

January 2020
Please do not add promotional material to Wikipedia, as you did to Michael Berland. While objective prose about beliefs, organisations, people, products or services is acceptable, Wikipedia is not a vehicle for soapboxing, advertising or promotion. Thank you. Largoplazo (talk) 23:33, 8 January 2020 (UTC)

Inquiry
K8knitz, how are you related to Michael Berland, Owen Pogue, and OwenP? ST47 (talk) 22:10, 13 January 2020 (UTC)