User talk:Lemonswirl

June 2014
Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Procrastination. Wikipedia is not a collection of links, nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate links include, but are not limited to, links to personal websites, links to websites with which you are affiliated (whether as a link in article text, or a citation in an article), and links that attract visitors to a website or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam guideline for further explanations. Because Wikipedia uses the nofollow attribute value, its external links are disregarded by most search engines. If you feel the link should be added to the page, please discuss it on the associated talk page rather than re-adding it. Thank you. McGeddon (talk) 16:02, 17 June 2014 (UTC)


 * Thank you for your feedback. I am new to editing Wikipedia pages so please excuse any lapse in standard protocol. I added the link to this author/blogger because her work is highly relevant to this topic. I believe that it should be included based on the similarity to at least one link that pre-existed in this section before my edit. The two links that I included are not promotional in nature and are simply speaking on the topic of procrastination. I believe that they are an invaluable resource to visitors to this Wikipedia page who are looking to overcome procrastination. Can you please advise me on how I could better include these links on the procrastination page? Lemonswirl (talk) 15:25, 17 June 2014 (UTC)


 * Per WP:BLOGS, a self-published blog source can be used if written by "an established expert on the subject matter, whose work in the relevant field has previously been published by reliable third-party publications". Does Hillary Rettig meet this criterion?
 * If you have any personal or professional connection to Rettig, however, you should never add a link directly and should instead suggest it on the article's talk page, explaining your conflict of interest. --McGeddon (talk) 13:55, 18 June 2014 (UTC)

Promoting Hillary Rettig
Hello, Lemonswirl. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest.

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.
 * 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.--McGeddon (talk) 16:08, 17 June 2014 (UTC)