User talk:Ndownend

March 2022
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 * Hi Diannaa. Thank you for your note. Can you please let me know how I violated the Copyright rules? I was updating the page for my boss (who is the subject of the page). It seems now that the page has reverted to the old posting and I've lost all of the revisions I made?   69.206.253.210 (talk) 21:23, 30 March 2022 (UTC)

Conflict of Interest: John David Coles
Hello, Ndownend. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page John David Coles, 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 article subjects for more information. We ask that you:


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Vegantics (talk) 16:17, 20 March 2024 (UTC)