User talk:Spenceobrien

Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, Spenceobrien. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:


 * avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, company, organization or competitors;
 * propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the request edit template);
 * disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see Conflict of interest);
 * avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see WP:Spam);
 * do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. GermanJoe (talk) 16:14, 25 September 2019 (UTC)


 * Aside from a possible conflict of interest, please note that Wikipedia can't accept copypasted contributions from external sources (unless they are Public Domain or under an explicit free license and properly attributed). Generally all content should be written in your own words. Thank you for your consideration. If you have further questions, please feel free to ask at WP:Teahouse, a forum for new editors. GermanJoe (talk) 16:17, 25 September 2019 (UTC)

October 2019
Your addition to ASSIST (student exchange organization) has been removed in whole or in part, 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 very seriously and persistent violators of our copyright policy will be blocked from editing. See Copying text from other sources for more information. GermanJoe (talk) 08:57, 1 October 2019 (UTC)

Please do not add promotional material to Wikipedia. While objective prose about beliefs, organisations, people, products or services is acceptable, Wikipedia is not a vehicle for soapboxing, advertising or promotion. '' Please also disclose your apparent conflict of interest as requested in the previous message on top. Thank you for your consideration.'' GermanJoe (talk) 09:01, 1 October 2019 (UTC)