User talk:South9border

January 2010
Your addition to Dave Patten has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of article content such as sentences or images. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. Beloved Freak  15:17, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

Dave Patten
Hello, just to let you know that this article has been nominated for deletion. If you wish to contest this, please see WP:PROD and WP:Notability (people). Best wishes, Boleyn (talk) 18:08, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

Articles for deletion nomination of Dave Patten
I have nominated Dave Patten, an article that you created, for deletion. I do not think that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Articles for deletion/Dave Patten. Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time.Please contact me if you're unsure why you received this message. Jclemens (talk) 20:28, 2 February 2010 (UTC)

Conflict of interest editing
Hello, South9border. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the article Dave Patten, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. In particular, please:


 * avoid editing or creating articles related to you and your circle, your organization, its competitors, projects or products;
 * instead propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (see the request edit template);
 * when discussing affected articles, disclose your COI (see WP:DISCLOSE);
 * avoid linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see WP:SPAM);
 * exercise great caution so that you do not violate Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID).

Please familiarize yourself with relevant policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, sourcing and autobiographies. Thank you. Melcous (talk) 05:52, 31 March 2016 (UTC)