User talk:Leigh Cowan

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Hello, Leigh Cowan, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.

I notice that one of the first articles you edited 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. 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.

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 * The plain and simple conflict of interest guide
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ATT: Mr Ollie
I made a contribution to Wikipedia because the existing definition of 'marketing' was wrong, embarrassingly wrong, misleadingly wrong, and demeans the implied benefits of Wikipedia.

I lectured for 6 years in the graduate School of Business at UTS, have worked for 40 years in marketing, have some world-wide acclaimed achievements during that time, consulted to 3M, TNT, P&G, Unilever, Mars and others.

You previous definition would not pass scrutiny in Fundamentals of Marketing 101.

Mr Ollie sent me a message suggesting I have a conflict of interest in correcting the mammoth inaccuracy of the previous definition. Does he suggest returning to this ignorantly inaccurate definition?

On the contrary, anyone who insists upon delivering incorrect definitions or misinformation is far my conflicted than I.


 * If you wish to suggest major changes to an article, you need to discuss them with other contributors on the talkpage. You can get to the talkpage by typing Talk:Article_name into the search box. ~ Charmlet -talk- 22:42, 3 October 2013 (UTC)