User talk:Markbook

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Hello, Markbook, 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.

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Leroy Parsons
Welcome to Wikipedia and thank you for contributing. Please take a few hours and read about our core policies and guidelines at The Five Pillars. In particular, our policies for verifiability and notability underlie the reasons for your changes to Astoria, Oregon being reverted.

Leroy E. "Ed" Parsons may well be notable, but to demonstrate that we need an article about him titled by his most well known name (per WP:NAME) which is likely Leroy Parsons, which contains multiple citations to reliable sources which, when considered together, would demonstrate his notability.

Once his article is firmly established, then adding him to Astoria would be appropriate, especially if the fact of his association with Astoria is documented and cited in his biographical article.

You can click on the redlink above to create the article once you are an autoconfirmed editor. That requires an account at least four days old and 10 edits.

Thanks! —EncMstr (talk) 22:28, 13 June 2013 (UTC)