User talk:Peteredwardmartin

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Hi Peteredwardmartin,

I noticed your edit to the article Peter Martin (professor)‎ and just wanted to welcome you to Wikipedia and thank you for your contribution. A corollary of being “The encyclopedia that anyone can edit” is that we really need everyone to edit, so the project very much appreciates all contributions. I am personally particularly glad to see contributions on articles about contemporary academics as it is often very hard to find reliable information about them (for instance, our article on Samuel Schoenbaum, despite being one of the foremost Shakespearean scholars of the last century, is quite spare due to the lack of biographical sources about him).

By the way, I noticed your user name and am curious: are you in some way connected with or related to Prof. Martin? Please do not feel obliged to answer this question: Wikipedia has, by active choice, a strict policy on preserving editors' anonymity unless they choose to divulge their identity, so it is mere idle curiosity that you should feel entirely free to ignore. Regardless of that, you may find it useful to be aware of Wikipedia's Conflict of Interest guideline, since it is often considered applicable when an editor's username is similar or appears connected to the subject of an article. It is in form and goals essentially like most other such Conflict of Interest guidelines and so mostly falls within common sense (i.e. I wouldn't worry about it too much).

In any case, thank you for your contribution, and please do not hesitate to ask if there should be anything I can help with. Wikipedia has a lot of policies, guidelines, and cultural quirks that appear quite opaque, if not downright obtuse, compared with most people's frame of reference; and I know from experience that these can be quite tedious to discover and navigate on one's own. If you wish to get in touch with me you can do so by posting a message here (there should be an "[Edit]" link to the right of the heading for this message), on your User Talk page, or you can leave a message on my User Talk page (follow the “(talk)” link after my username at the end of this message, and you should find a “New Section” link at the top right of the page). You can also send me an email, if you would prefer not to post your message publicly, by clicking my username (“Xover”) and then the “E-Mail User” link in the menu on the left side of the page. I would be happy to help in any way I can. --Xover (talk) 15:21, 1 August 2011 (UTC)