User talk:SBricker

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

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited was Starkey Hearing Technologies, 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.

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December 2016
Your addition to Starkey Hearing Technologies has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted material, including text or images from print publications or from other websites, without an appropriate and verifiable license. All such contributions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images&mdash;you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. Chrissymad ❯❯❯  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯  19:39, 21 December 2016 (UTC)

Hello,

The edits I made are actually correct and factual. I work for the company and edited the entire page to accurately represent our factual history. We have permission to use all the text, which I wrote by the way! — Preceding unsigned comment added by SBricker (talk • contribs) 19:42, December 22, 2016 (UTC)


 * We don't know that you really are who you say you are. Even if you are an employee and did write the material it does not mean that you have the right to donate that material to Wikipedia. There are procedures that have to be followed to do so, and until that is done we simply cannot host material that is on the web with restrictions on its reuse. Soem of the material also appears to be somewhat promotional. This is one of the reasons we suggest athat editors with a conflict of interest (such as yourself) propose changes on an article's talk page rather than making hte edits themselces. Meters (talk) 20:14, 22 December 2016 (UTC)

Your recent editing history at Starkey Hearing Technologies shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war. To resolve the content dispute, please do not revert or change the edits of others when you are reverted. Instead of reverting, please use the talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. The best practice at this stage is to discuss, not edit-war. See BRD for how this is done. If discussions reach an impasse, you can then post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection.

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