User talk:PacificBasin

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Honolulu Magazine
Hello, welcome to Wikipedia. I have a question for you. (You can answer just by clicking Edit and adding your text after this). Are you in any way connected to Honolulu Magazine? Notinasnaid 09:23, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Yes, I am the Marketing Manager for PacificBasin Communications which publishes HONOLULU Magazine. Please let me know if you have any questions.PacificBasin 09:34, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Hello. I thought this would be a good time to mention some of Wikipedia's rules and guidelines to avoid any misunderstandings. Wikipedia's editorial policies are designed with only one aim: to produce a trustworthy encyclopedia. This means there are rules about verifiability for instance (there must be another reliable source that can be used to check the facts: although this is missing in many articles, it is likely to be insisted on more and more in future, and anything unsourced is liable to be removed).
 * In this case, what is particularly relevant is the guidelines in External links. The major thing here is that there is no situation in which you should post an external link to a web site you are connected with. This avoids any future suspicion that the encyclopedia was being used to promote what is linked to. What you can do is suggest links on the talk (discussion) page for any article, and allow a consensus of other editors to make up their mind.
 * What Wikipedia needs, however, much more than links, is improvements to the articles themselves. New editors often focus on adding links, but where practical, what is of value in the link should be used (in a non-copyright infringing way, naturally) to improve the article itself. If you want to participate a good place to start is your own local knowledge. Category:Hawaii is a directory of links to articles and categories related to Hawaii.
 * I hope this is of value to you, Notinasnaid 10:26, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the clarification. I didn't notice that in the policies. What about the topics that directly relate to the publication (say HONOLULU Magazine's entry)? That is something I have a lot of knowledege about and want to make sure it is accurate. If external links aren't of interest, that makes my life a little easier. I was doing this in my spare time rather than an employee task if that make any difference.PacificBasin 10:58, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

This may be a year after the fact, but I've reverted your changes to the article on Honolulu Magazine. The page is a complete copy of Honolulu Magazine's About Us page and thus appears to be a copyright violation and thus is unusable on Wikipedia. Secondly, please avoid using all capital letters when referring to the magazine in the article, even if that is how the name is styled on the magazine itself, as this is against Wikipedia's WP:MOS Manual of Style. I am unfamiliar with WP's policy on editing a topic you are directly affiliated with, but please feel free to edit the page again using your own words unless another editor says otherwise. 青い(Aoi) (talk) 09:38, 14 January 2008 (UTC)