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February 2012
Hello MikeLikesPunk. 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 or close connection to the subject.

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 following the reliable sources and writing with as little bias as possible.

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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. CharlieEchoTango ( contact ) 20:47, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

Again I would like to remind you of our conflict of interest guideline, since you continue to add reviews from "Property of Zack" to Wikipedia articles. The website does not appear to meet Wikipedia's criteria for reliable sources, as it is a self-published source without a sufficient reputation in the field. We do not allow reviews from just any website, only those that have established themselves as reliable and authoritative within the field of music criticism. Generally this is done by demonstrating that the website itself is notable, by showing that it has received coverage from other reliable sources (newspapers, music industry publications, etc.). Property of Zack is less than 3 years old and does not appear to have established sufficient notability or reputation in the field of music criticism to warrant inclusion in Wikipedia articles. If you disagree, please go to WT:ALBUMS and bring the site up for discussion to see if it should be added to WP:ALBUMS/REVSITE. Until the site is vetted by the Wikipedia community as a reliable source for criticism, I must ask that you please stop adding reviews from it to articles. Since you are obviously Michael Meeze from the site's staff, your continued insertions of the site's reviews into articles represents a conflict of interest and borders on promotion. --IllaZilla (talk) 05:15, 16 February 2012 (UTC)