User talk:Tjmullinax

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Hello, Tjmullinax, 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! -- Jytdog (talk) 14:39, 6 May 2015 (UTC)
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Question
COI issues get a bit ... interesting in Wikipedia, since we allow editors to be anonymous here. Please do read WP:COI. Conflict of interest in Wikipedia is managed via disclosure and a form of peer review.

While I am not asking you to disclose your identity (anonymity is strictly protecting by out WP:OUTING policy) would you please disclose if you have some relationship with goodfruit.com or with Okanagan Specialty Fruits? You can answer how ever you wish, but if there is a COI, please disclose it. After you respond (and you can just reply below), perhaps we can talk a bit about editing Wikipedia, to give you some more orientation to how this place works. Thanks! Jytdog (talk) 14:42, 6 May 2015 (UTC)

Thanks, I actually am new and will be going through the links above to update my profile. I actually found a reference and link that was bad so I was trying to figure out how to fix it. I took an extra step and included a few updated stories from two different perspectives about the Arctic topic for consideration. Thanks again and I've got a lot of reading to do! ~TJ
 * Thanks for replying! yes it is clear that you are new... I would be happy to help you get your feet down, but would you please answer the question I asked? Thanks. Jytdog (talk) 15:17, 6 May 2015 (UTC)