User talk:Sarahb101

Welcome!
Hello, Sarahb101, and welcome to Wikipedia!&#32;Thank you for your contributions.

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited was The Pollinator Pathway, 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 any other 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 firm 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: 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! Dennis Bratland (talk) 15:07, 16 June 2014 (UTC)
 * The plain and simple conflict of interest guide
 * The five pillars of Wikipedia
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 * How to edit a page and How to develop articles
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June 2014
Your recent editing history at The Pollinator Pathway shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war. Being involved in an edit war can result in your being blocked from editing&mdash;especially if you violate the three-revert rule, which states that an editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Undoing another editor's work—whether in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material each time—counts as a revert. Also keep in mind that while violating the three-revert rule often leads to a block, you can still be blocked for edit warring&mdash;even if you don't violate the three-revert rule&mdash;should your behavior indicate that you intend to continue reverting repeatedly.

To avoid being blocked, instead of reverting please consider using the article's talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. See BRD for how this is done. You can post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection. Copy-paste of marketing buzzwords http://www.pollinatorpathway.com/about/ © 2014 Pollinator Pathway® Dennis Bratland (talk) 15:08, 16 June 2014 (UTC)

Hello, and some tips
Hi Sarah, welcome to Wikipedia. I hope you haven't been put off by the boilerplate notices above. Here's a suggestion that to avoid the appearance of improper editing, you make comments on the Pollinator Pathway's talk page (here), instead of editing the article. This is a technique we've come to adopt in the Wikipedia community that allows people connected with a topic to still make great contributions. Again, welcome and I look forward to collaborating. — Brianhe (talk) 17:58, 17 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Another note - if you created more than one account, you should not use them on the same article. This violates the sock puppetry policy. — Brianhe (talk) 19:20, 17 September 2014 (UTC)

Hello! I just figured out how to respond. Briannhe, I posted somewhere on your page in an attempt to reply. I'm pasting it below.

Hi Brianhe! I saw your posts- and thank you. I'm a newbie user so I had just plugged in some basic info, intending to finish it later. Im sorry for bumbling my way around. I saw your suggestion that I paste in my edits but can't figure out where to do so, even after following your suggested link. I'm going to plug in another edit and hope you don't mind my doing so. Some of the edits made were incorrect, and so my hope is my edits will help clarify it more accurately, so it can then be fine tuned. I removed a couple things that were incorrect and would be happy to clarify if you like. If you don't mind pointing me to where I can make suggestions from here on out, that would be great- thanks. Wikibits1 (talk) 08:45, 22 September 2014 (UTC)
 * It's OK, see the article talkpage for some feedback. — Brianhe (talk) 18:26, 22 September 2014 (UTC)