User talk:OliverPollak

Hello OliverPollak. 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.

If you are very close to a subject, here are some ways you can reduce the risk of problems:


 * Avoid or exercise great caution when editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with.
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Please familiarize yourself with relevant content policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, verifiability of information, and autobiographies.

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. Jim1138 (talk) 22:23, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

A great way to contribute
Hello, Professor. If you are really the author whose work was published in History Today, then I'm glad you've come to Wikipedia. Very few of us dare to contribute using our real names.

You can help by donating some of your copy-written work, if you willing to to release your contribution under the CC-BY-SA 3.0 License and the GFDL.

Just a word of caution. Being an author (and a "source") doesn't give you any extra rights here, and some people may assume you have a conflict of interest. If you need any advice handling anti-expert suspicion, just ask me. I may be able to smooth things over for you. --Uncle Ed (talk) 02:06, 27 February 2012 (UTC)