User talk:Laurajdahl

AfD nomination of Laura J. Dahl
An article that you have been involved in editing, Laura J. Dahl, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Articles for deletion/Laura J. Dahl. Thank you. Do you want to opt out of receiving this notice? You should wait for others to write an article about subjects in which you are personally involved. This applies to articles about you, your achievements, your band, your business, your publications, your website, your relatives, and any other possible conflict of interest.

Creating an article about yourself is strongly discouraged. If you create such an article, it might be listed on articles for deletion. Deletion is not certain, but many feel strongly that you should not start articles about yourself. This is because independent creation encourages independent validation of both significance and verifiability. All edits to articles must conform to No original research, Neutral point of view, and Verifiability.

If you are not "notable" under Wikipedia guidelines, creating an article about yourself may violate the policy that Wikipedia is not a personal webspace provider and would thus qualify for speedy deletion. If your achievements, etc., are verifiable and genuinely notable, and thus suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia, someone else will probably create an article about you sooner or later. (See Wikipedians with articles.)

Grutness...wha?  00:49, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

=Your conflict of interest in self-promotion=

If you have a close connection to 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 from the tone of the edit and the proximity of the editor to the subject, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:
 * 1) editing 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;
 * 3) linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Spam);
 * and you must always:
 * 1) avoid breaching relevant policies and guidelines, especially neutral point of view, verifiability, and autobiography.

For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have conflict of interest, please see Business' FAQ. For more details about what constitutes a conflict of interest, please see Conflict of Interest.

Articles on Wikipedia
If you write an article on Wikipedia you should strive for a tone that is encyclopedic, with verifiable information from referenced sources, good grammatical structure of English, and high readability. Wikipedia also does not allow you to post personal advertisements about goods you have for sale. I have edited much of your article, and the article may be deleted. However, if you have good sources to establish your personal notability and wish to have help in adding the information to the article, please post them on the article's talk page and other editors may be willing to help you. --Blechnic (talk) 21:58, 20 April 2008 (UTC)