User talk:RBrustein

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January 2014
Hello, RBrustein. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Robert Brustein, 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 ensuring their edits are verified by 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.
 * Be cautious about deletion discussions. Everyone is welcome to provide information about independent sources in deletion discussions, but avoid advocating for deletion of articles about your competitors.
 * Avoid linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Spam).
 * Exercise great caution so that you do not accidentally breach Wikipedia's content policies.

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. Hitro  talk  19:04, 22 January 2014 (UTC)

Tip
Hi. I see you've been informed about the conflict of interest policy. It shouldn't be a problem as long as you think about writing in the third person and without any bias one way or the other. You can't, for instance, offer your own opinions or analyisis unless they come from published sources.

The tip I have for you is that you shouldn't sign edits to articles, as you did with one of yours. Sign talk page comments, but not article edits. I suppose you might have done it to show that the information was coming from you, but that's not necessary - technically, anything added without a citation from a reliable source is subject to being removed, but that generally only happens to controversial or disputed material. (However, fair warning, if some other editor decides that the info you added needs to be cited, they can, if they want, remove it from the article, and it wouldn't be allowed to go back in without a citation. On the other hand, they could be nice and simply tag it with a "citation needed" tag, and leave it in place.  If you haven't gathered already, this place can be something of a free-for-all at times, that's just the way it's set up.) Best, BMK (talk) 15:21, 23 January 2014 (UTC)