User talk:MurrayKessler

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Hello, MurrayKessler, and welcome to Wikipedia!&#32;Thank you for your contributions.

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited was United States Equestrian Federation, 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.

To reduce the chances of your contributions being undone, you might like to draft your revised article before submission, and then ask me or another editor to proofread it. See our help page on userspace drafts for more details. If the page you created has already been deleted from Wikipedia, but you want to save the content from it to use for that draft, don't hesitate to ask anyone from this list and they will copy it to your user page.

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Conflict of interest Notice
Hello, MurrayKessler. 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 conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. 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, colleagues, company, organization or competitors;
 * propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the request edit template);
 * disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see Conflict of interest);
 * 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 are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. --McSly (talk) 21:05, 13 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Hello . Your user name is the same as the name of the president of the United States Equestrian Federation. As a reminder, if you have any sort of conflict of interest with that organization as listed in this section, please make sure that you disclose it before continuing to edit the article. Thanks. --McSly (talk) 21:59, 13 February 2020 (UTC)

February 2020
Hello, I'm C.Fred. I noticed that you added or changed content in an article, United States Equestrian Federation, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so. You can have a look at the tutorial on citing sources, or if you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. The nature of the claims require that you cite a reliable source before adding them to the article. —C.Fred (talk) 21:23, 13 February 2020 (UTC)


 * Facebook is not a reliable source. —C.Fred (talk) 21:38, 13 February 2020 (UTC)
 * I removed it. The "source" was just the facebook homepage for the organization. --McSly (talk) 21:49, 13 February 2020 (UTC)