User talk:Kbchen2

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Hello, Kbchen2, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful: 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! WikiDan61 ChatMe!ReadMe!! 19:00, 2 July 2012 (UTC)
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Conflict of intersest
Hello, Kbchen2. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Strategis, you may have a conflict of interest or close connection to the subject.

All editors are required to comply with Wikipedia's neutral point of view content policy. People who are very close to a subject often have a distorted view of it, which may cause them to inadvertently edit in ways that make the article either too flattering or too disparaging. People with a close connection to a subject are not absolutely prohibited from editing about that subject, but they need to be especially careful about ensuring their edits are verified by reliable sources and writing with as little bias as possible.

If you are very close to a subject, here are some ways you can reduce the risk of problems:


 * Avoid or exercise great caution when editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with.
 * Be cautious about deletion discussions. Everyone is welcome to provide information about independent sources in deletion discussions, but avoid advocating for deletion of articles about your competitors.
 * Avoid linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Spam).
 * Exercise great caution so that you do not accidentally breach Wikipedia's content policies.

Please familiarize yourself with relevant content 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. Thank you. WikiDan61 ChatMe!ReadMe!! 19:00, 2 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Based on this blog at the Strategis website, I'm working on the assumption that you work for the firm. WikiDan61 ChatMe!ReadMe!! 19:00, 2 July 2012 (UTC)

Failed verifications
Please stop removing the failed verification templates from Strategis. Perhaps you don't fully understand the Wikipedia verifiability policy: when you provide a reference, a reader (like myself) should be able to go to that reference and find a statement that supports the fact that you have referenced. For example, if you make a statement such as:
 * Strategis' clients have included Ashworth Awards

and you reference that statement with a link to Ashworth Awards' website, I should be able to read at that website something that confirms that Ashworth has used Strategis as their marketing partner. However, since Ashworth's website makes no such statement, this is called a "failed verification", which means that the cited information was not verified by the citation given. Your job at that point, as the artice's author, is either to find a better citation, or to remove the fact that cannot be verified. Alternatively, I, as an independent author, am free to simply remove the unverifiable information. However, I would prefer to give you the chance to improve the article. However, if you simply continue to remove the maintenance template without actually addressing the problem, this may well be considered vandalism, and will not be looked on kindly by the administrators. WikiDan61 ChatMe!ReadMe!! 12:37, 3 July 2012 (UTC)

Nomination of Strategis for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Strategis is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Strategis until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion template from the top of the article. WikiDan61 ChatMe!ReadMe!! 17:36, 5 July 2012 (UTC)