User talk:Richard Dorson

Hi Richard Dorson, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like it here and decide to stay. Our intro page provides helpful information for new users—please check it out! If you have any questions, you can get help from experienced editors at the Teahouse. Happy editing! EdNg07 (talk) 08:20, 30 September 2020 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, Richard Dorson. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the page Folklore, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:


 * avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization or competitors;
 * propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the request edit template);
 * disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see Conflict of interest);
 * avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see WP:Spam);
 * do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. ''While these guidelines cover all your edits involving a conflict of interest, I'm posting this particularly in connection with your addition to Folklore placing undue emphasis on the American Folklore Society. In the context of a general article on folklore worldwide, this was an abrupt shift to a narrow focus on a single organization in a single country.'' Largoplazo (talk) 11:06, 30 September 2020 (UTC)