User talk:Richard Sanfield

Welcome!
Hello, Richard Sanfield, and welcome to Wikipedia!&#32;Thank you for your contributions.

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article.&#32;Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

To reduce the chances of your contributions being undone, you might like to draft your revised article before submission, and then ask me or another editor to proofread it. See our help page on userspace drafts for more details. If the page you created has already been deleted from Wikipedia, but you want to save the content from it to use for that draft, don't hesitate to ask anyone from this list and they will copy it to your user page.

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 * The plain and simple conflict of interest guide
 * The five pillars of Wikipedia
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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place  before the question. Again, welcome! —C.Fred (talk) 01:31, 25 April 2018 (UTC)

Wikipedia is not an official website
Greetings! I saw the notice you placed at the bottom of User:Richard Sanfield/sandbox, and I wanted to advise you that it is entirely unacceptable per Wikipedia policies. Individual editors do not own article they create; other editors are free to edit them as they see fit. Further, pages do not act as official repositories; if an article is to be created about Sanfield, it should be based upon independent reliable sources, written from neutral point of view, and ideally not created by an editor like you with a conflict of interest.

Further, your username is a violation of the WP:Username policy, because you are not Sanfield. If Sanfield is deemed notable enough to have an article, then your username is clearly inappropriate because it is confusing: you are not Sanfield, but your username implies that you are. —C.Fred (talk) 01:31, 25 April 2018 (UTC)