User talk:Straife

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Hello, Straife, 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! Everard Proudfoot (talk) 21:21, 2 July 2010 (UTC)
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Conflict of interest
Welcome to Wikipedia. If you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article IPhone 4, you may have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, edits where there is a conflict of interest, or where such a conflict might reasonably be inferred, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:
 * 1) editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with;
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For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Thank you. Everard Proudfoot (talk) 21:21, 2 July 2010 (UTC)

Open a discussion on the articles' Talk pages, explain your conflict of interest, and ask others if you think the links are appopriate. You could also open a discussion at WP:ELN. Just be sure you reveal your conflict. Everard Proudfoot (talk) 23:55, 2 July 2010 (UTC)

iFixit Conflict of Interest on Editing
I would like to be completely honest with anyone who views my user page, I am an employee of iFixit. I am stating this because I do have a Conflict of Interest, and thus should not try to edit pages and add external links. I did attempt this earlier on three articles, to test the waters learning Wikipedia courtesies, stating with every edit that should an editor see my added links as "spam" to delete them.

iFixit provides a free wiki-style user-contributed collection of repair manuals and guides for multiple electronic devices. In particular, iFixit has focused on Apple products. Our Guides are useful to many users, and are free content provided by iFixit. A lot of Wikipedia articles would greatly benefit from having external links to iFixit's relevant content.

I will have another Section for suggested Wikipedia pages to add external links with relevant iFixit pages.

Straife (talk) 18:50, 30 July 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia Articles with iFixit Manuals/Guides (Apple)
I read through the Wikipedia: FAQ/Organizations Page and noticed this piece of information: "If the link is relevant, helpful and informative and should otherwise be included". I feel that the following list of articles and repair guides/manuals fit under the category of being "relevant, helpful, and informative" and should be added to the proposed articles.

Macs:

iFixit - iBook Repair Manuals IBook

iFixit - MacBook Air Repair Manual MacBook Air

iFixit - MacBook Repair ManualsMacBook

iFixit - MacBook Pro Repair Manuals MacBook Pro Also, someone placed an external link to a disassembly of a 15'' MacBook. That is a highly irrelevant link to a very specific model of MacBook Pro, the suggested link above for this article is much more useful to readers.

iFixit - PowerBook G3 Repair Manual PowerBook G3

iFixit - PowerBook G4 Titanium Repair Manual iFixit - PowerBook G4 Aluminum Repair Manual PowerBook G4 There currently is an external link to a less user friendly disassembly. It should be either replaced by the suggested links, or removed if the iFixit links are deemed unworthy. Also, the link above it is a dead link on Safari and Chrome.

iFixit - Mac Mini Repair Manuals Mac Mini

iFixit - iMac G5 Repair Manual iMac G5 There currently is an external link to a very advertisement heavy site, and the page is just not very easy to follow.

iFixit - iMac Intel Repair Manual Imac Intel

iFixit - Power Mac G5 Repair Manual Power Mac G5

iPods:

iFixit - iPod Repair Manuals iPod

iFixit - iPod Original Repair Manual iPod Classic

iFixit - iPod Mini Repair Manual iPod Mini

iFIxit - iPod Nano Repair Manuals iPod Nano

iFixit - iPod Touch Repair Manuals iPod Touch

iPhones:

Note: iFixit is used in multiple articles' as a reference related to the iPhone.

iFixit - iPhone Repair Manuals iPhone iFixit is referenced 9 times on this page.

iFixit - iPhone 1st Generation Repair Manual iPhone 1st Generation

iFixit - iPhone 3G Repair Manual iPhone 3G

iFixit - iPhone 3GS Repair Manual iPhone 3GS

iFixit - iPhone 4 Repair Manual Iphone 4

iPad: iFixit - iPad Repair Manuals iPad

Straife (talk) 20:53, 30 July 2010 (UTC)