User talk:Martinbean

Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, Martinbean. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. Editing for the purpose of advertising or promotion is not permitted. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:


 * avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, company, organization or competitors;
 * propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (see the request edit template);
 * disclose your COI when discussing affected articles (see WP:DISCLOSE);
 * avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see WP:SPAM);
 * do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID).

Also please note that editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Tornado chaser (talk) 12:58, 5 January 2018 (UTC)


 * Which edit/page is this in relation to? The only page I’ve edited was for a darts referee, and that was formatting changes. Martinbean (talk) 14:37, 5 January 2018 (UTC)


 * This looks like I made a mistake, I must have mistaken your userpage for a wikipedia article, and thought you were editing an article on yourself, but no, you do not look like you have a COI. Tornado chaser (talk) 21:07, 5 January 2018 (UTC)

Your userpage
Please see WP:UPYES and WP:UPNOT about what you may and may not have on your user page, and in particular consider removing the links to your own website which appear promotional. thank you, Melcous (talk) 21:16, 5 January 2018 (UTC)


 * @Melcous Thanks for adding the banner. Reading WP:UPYES, it seems a link to my home page is OK:


 * "You are also welcome to include a simple link to your personal home page"


 * Is biographical information allowed on a user page like I have done? As I’ll amend it if not. Martinbean (talk) 22:06, 6 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks Martin. Personally, I think the key issue with your user page is that you have tried to make it look like an article. For example, most of the information in the infobox is irrelevant and would seem to stretch the boundaries of "Limited autobiographical content", and it means you have linked to your home page twice which seems excessive. If you think about your user page as the place other wikipedia editors go to find out what kind of editor you are, rather than as a social network page where you list all the details about yourself (which is how it currently reads to me), that might help? Cheers, Melcous (talk) 03:02, 7 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Gotcha. I’ll amend it then. Thanks for the pointers. Martinbean (talk) 17:30, 7 January 2018 (UTC)