User talk:Sdjmw

October 2011
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Hello, Sdjmw, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion 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! Drmies (talk) 03:49, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
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 * Sorry, but I have reverted your edits to the article: they seemed to me to be non-neutral and more interested in promoting the subject's career than presenting facts objectively and with reference to reliable sources (your version didn't have any). Thank you. Drmies (talk) 03:52, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Drmies - please don't remove all the work I did adding new information to David Jenkins page! If the content is not neutral enough I can make edits. You are correct, there are no sources listed at this time, that was my next step, to add all the resources to the article. I hoped that the note at the top of the article noting that the page was {in use} would suggest that it is still a work in progress. Sdjmw (talk) 05:01, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Maybe, but claims like "Jenkins is the visionary, leader and financier in the creation of the world’s first carbonated protein drinks" have no place in an encyclopedic article, and the rest of your edits bore the same non-neutral marks. If you started with adding verified facts before making such grand statements, it would be a different thing. Sorry, but we have to be neutral here. Drmies (talk) 05:05, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Hello again. Thank you for your feedback, I completely understand. I am going to begin adding new information to the page a little bit at a time and including sources as I go. If you could please let me know if there are any issues with the new text or it meeting wiki standards before deleting it, that would be most appreciated. If there are problems I will correct them immediately. Thank you so much for your assistance. Sdjmw (talk) 21:24, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

Copyright violations in David Jenkins (athlete)
Large chunks of the article were copied from http://xapp.com/fizz-not-fat.htm - see warning on the talk page. Wikipedia will not accept material copied from elsewhere: please read Copy-paste. It is possible for the copyright holder to make a formal copyright release, as described in WP:DCM, but that is very seldom worth doing, because the tone of websites like that is almost always too promotional for an encyclopedia article - and indeed this one was tagged for speedy deletion as Unambiguous advertising or promotion. After trimming out the copyright violations, the article is much better in that respect, so I have declined the speedy deletion nomination; please don't replace the copied material or spam it up again. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 21:21, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

Hello JohnCD. Thank you for your explanation regarding the removal of text from the David Jenkins page. The information that I added to the page was created by me, it is actually XAPP.com that is using my text. I have a relationship with the company and was asked to update their wiki page and unbeknownst to me, they utilized the text that was created for the wikipedia page by adding it to their product website. If I have them remove the content from their website, will that remove any copyright issues and I could therefore replace the deleted content? Thank you for your assistance. Best regards. Sdjmw (talk) 02:36, 3 November 2011 (UTC)
 * So you know, you have admitted a conflict of interest for this article. That doesn't preclude you from editing on Wikipedia, but it would be best practice to not edit this article and, instead, to makes suggestions on the talk page.  You can read more about this at WP:COI.  LedRush (talk) 22:19, 18 November 2011 (UTC)