User talk:Mmitank

December 2010
Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, please do not add promotional material to articles or other Wikipedia pages, as you did to Storage tank. Advertising and using Wikipedia as a "soapbox" are against Wikipedia policy and not permitted. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you. ( Hohum  @ ) 18:22, 27 December 2010 (UTC)

I meant to use it as a reference vs. promotional material. What is the proper way to do this?


 * Since the site looks entirely promotional, I can't see a way. It seems you will also likely run into WP:COI issues arising from your user name. The following information about editing wikipedia may be of use. ( Hohum  @ ) 19:00, 28 December 2010 (UTC)

Welcome
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The Wikipedia tutorial is a good place to start learning about Wikipedia. If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump or ask me on my talk page. By the way, you can sign your name on Talk and discussion pages using four tildes, like this: &#126;&#126;&#126;&#126; (the software will replace them with your signature and the date). Again, welcome! ( Hohum  @ ) 18:57, 28 December 2010 (UTC)

Your username
Your username (Mmitank) may not meet Wikipedia's username policy, in particular WP:CORPNAME. Most of your contributions to date have been to insert information referring to MMI Tank & Industrial Services, Inc. This is likely to be interpreted as editing primarily to advertise a company (see WP:SPAM), and may represent a conflict of interest (WP:COI). I'd strongly recommend reading those three articles to better understand how you may usefully contribute to Wikipedia. If you feel you can contribute within those restrictions, I'd suggest you file for a change of username, or you may simply create a new, personal account and use that for editing. --RexxS (talk) 00:05, 29 December 2010 (UTC)