User talk:Libertytowerone

July 2007
Welcome to Wikipedia. It might not have been your intention, but your recent contribution removed content from David Yurman. Please be more careful when editing pages and do not remove content from Wikipedia without a good reason, which should be specified in the edit summary. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. If you would like to experiment again, please use the sandbox. Thank you. ''You might also want to familiarize yourself with Conflict of interest if you are, as you indicated, connected with the subject of the biography (or the subject himself). If you want to propose controversial edits, you might want to be particularly careful to discuss them with other editors before making sweeping changes to text. Moonriddengirl 18:16, 23 July 2007 (UTC) '' Moonriddengirl 18:16, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

actually, I did mean to edit this content. I was correcting information that was incorrect. I am an employee of DAVID YURMAN, inc.

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. Please consult with other editors before replacing the article in its entirety with what appears to be promotional press release amterial. Regards. -- Whpq 18:41, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

I see you've completely replaced the article again. Can you please explain what objections you have to the original article that needs correcting at talk:David Yurman so we can have a discussion of what changes to make rather than unilaterally replacing all of teh content with one supplied by an employee of David Yurman. Wikipedia is a collaberative effort. Thanks. -- Whpq 18:51, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

David Yurman
I see that other editors have contributed to your talk page since you wrote to me, so it may be that your questions have been answered. I think there are several problems with your edits to David Yurman. First of all, the format of your version violates Manual of Style, which is likely to rouse editor suspicions of vandalism, particularly as your edits remove material like the categories listed at the bottom of the page. Second, your verbiage violates one of the central tenets of Wikipedia, the neutral point of view. Particularly without sources, statements like "is recognized as America's premier jewelry and timepiece designer" read like advertisement and will never be allowed to stand. See this section of What Wikipedia is Not for more on why. I urge you to read Business' FAQ as User:Whpq suggested. It is possible to write entries on yourself or a company you work for, but it is very difficult. Since your edits have broken the formatting, I am going to revert them again. I'd be very happy to help you integrate correct information if you'd like to discuss what you believe is wrong on Talk:David Yurman. You are, of course, more than welcome to edit it yourself, but please do pay attention to the Manual of Style and do not remove categories or wikilinks or emplace words that violate neutral point of view. If it sounds more like a press release than an encyclopedia article, it's very likely to be challenged. Moonriddengirl 19:09, 24 July 2007 (UTC)