User talk:Meldooley13

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I noticed that one of the first articles you edited was William J. Flanagan Jr., which 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.&#32;Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

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 * Hi, Melody,
 * I know you are not a bot - you are, apparently, a person associated with Admiral Flanagan. However, we have specific rules about sourcing information on WP, namely WP:V and WP:RS. The rules are extra strict concerning living people, and can be found at WP:BLP. Your updates do not meet those standards. In addition, you have declared a conflict of interest with the subject, and there are guidelines for how to manage that (see the above section). While it is understandable that a person might want to control what is on their Wikipedia page, that is not how Wikipedia works.
 * The information you are adding is undersourced, and it's excessively detailed for what we expect in an article - every placement, every ship's status achieved (which are likely to be meaningless to the reader), these are not necessary, and if you absolutely must include them must be sourced. It is not enough to have sources, you need to be putting them in the article, and they must meet the standards of the reliable source policy. Information directly from personal experience or from talking to the Admiral would be considered original research and is not permitted.
 * I'd be happy to help expand the article to include information that you or the Admiral think are important, but simply adding back your version is not the way to go about this. EasyAsPai (talk) 15:02, 11 May 2024 (UTC)