User talk:Rbgcowley

Possible conflict of interest
Hi Richard and welcome to Wikipedia. I enjoyed your book - I read the last few pages on the way home tonight! - but I think you might run into problems with the perception of a Conflict of Interest (COI) given that it currently looks a bit like you are here to add links to your book. If you have a look at the COI link I give above you'll see some pointers about it; you might also want to see Wikipedia policy on External Links which talks about what is required of external links being added. I hope that these are helpful. I'm not planning on going round removing all your links but I think you might want to read up a bit and consider the possibility that someone else will! Hope this helps, happy walking, and best wishes, DBaK (talk) 16:11, 23 May 2014 (UTC)


 * I'd second the above. Please read Conflict of Interest (COI) before you continue adding references to your book to Wikipedia articles. And you should certainly not add references where they're completely irrelevant (e.g. Coast to Coast AM, which is an American radio station and nothing to do with the Coast-to-Coast walk). You may be acting in good faith, but you are in breach of Wikipedia policies on conflict of interest and also promotion. Even if your book is a suitable source, you should refrain from promoting it yourself. Wikipedia is not a soapbox or means of promotion. Dave.Dunford (talk) 15:26, 27 May 2014 (UTC)

May 2014
Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to add soapboxing, promotional or advertising material to Wikipedia, as you did at West Highland Way, you may be blocked from editing. Charles (talk) 13:19, 28 May 2014 (UTC)