User talk:Rkarkas

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

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited was Hillary Schieve, which 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.

One rule we do have in connection with conflicts of interest is that accounts used by more than one person will unfortunately be blocked from editing. Wikipedia generally does not allow editors to have usernames which imply that the account belongs to a company or corporation. If you have a username like this, you should request a change of username or create a new account. (A name that identifies the user as an individual within a given organization may be OK.)

Here are some pages that you might find helpful:
 * The plain and simple conflict of interest guide
 * The five pillars of Wikipedia
 * Contributing to Wikipedia
 * Tutorial
 * How to edit a page and How to develop articles
 * How to create your first article (using the Article Wizard if you wish)
 * Simplified Manual of Style

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! 331dot (talk) 02:18, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

I say the following assuming you had registered "City of Reno, Nevada" as your username before. Thanks for using a new one. I would also add that no one owns any page or has singular rights to dictate what goes on a page, even if the page is about themselves. If you have a conflict of interest in a subject you need to take great care in editing about it and should not do so directly in most circumstances, at least not without outside review. I urge you to review the links above. 331dot (talk) 02:24, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

About myself
My name is Ryan Karkas, and I am a paid Program Intern for the City of Reno, Mayor's Office.


 * Thank you for declaring that you have a conflict of interest with respect to articles related to Reno and its mayor, Hillary Schieve. Please make sure you abide by the guidelines for paid editors with a conflict of interest. —C.Fred (talk) 00:43, 26 February 2016 (UTC)

February 2016
Welcome to Wikipedia. It might not have been your intention, but your recent edit removed maintenance templates from Hillary Schieve. When removing maintenance templates, please be sure to either resolve the problem that the template refers to, or give a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry, as your removal of this template has been reverted. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia, and if you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. As a paid editor, you should not, under any circumstances, remove the COI tag from the article. —C.Fred (talk) 00:47, 26 February 2016 (UTC)