User talk:Scottmurray1234

David Langer
David Langer is one of the worlds foremost prominent big wave tow-in surfers. Surfing Bio

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Hello, Scottmurray1234, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful: Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing 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! JohnCD (talk) 23:03, 21 February 2014 (UTC)
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Advice
I am sorry that I did not get around to this yesterday.

The first thing to say is that, although we do not do as good a job as we might in explaining this to new users, Wikipedia is not a place for people to write about themselves or their own concerns. As you are Mr Langer's agent, you have from our point of view a WP:Conflict of interest and should read the Plain and simple conflict of interest guide. In brief, you should not edit directly about Mr Langer, but may submit a draft article for review. The advice page I link to below will explain how to do that.

Two important differences from places like LinkedIn and Facebook are:


 * The tone. Entries there are written to promote the subject, with PR-speak, promotional language and peacock terms, but an encyclopedia article requires a neutral point of view. Wikipedia is specifically not for promotion of any kind, and is very resistant to anything that looks like it.


 * A Wikipedia article is not owned by anyone, not its first author and certainly not its subject. Anyone can edit, and you would not be able to insist on your preferred version. If you want a page about Mr Langer that you can control, this is not the site for you.

As I have this conversation rather often, I have written User:JohnCD/Advice. It is written for someone looking to write about his company, but if you allow for that, the same advice applies.

Regards, JohnCD (talk) 22:22, 23 February 2014 (UTC)