User talk:Tomjstern

November 2014
Hello, I'm Winner 42. I noticed that you made a change to an article, Tom Stern (director), but you didn't provide a source. I’ve removed it for now, but if you’d like to include a citation to a reliable source and re-add it, please do so! If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. Winner 42 Talk to me!  20:57, 25 November 2014 (UTC)

Hello Winner 42. I'm not clear on how to respond to your message. Is this how I do it? By typing a response here? Anyway I am trying to update this Wikipedia article which is about myself. I am trying to make it more accurate and up to date. I did not start the article but I would like to improve it since I obviously know a lot about it's subject. How can I do this in a way that will not be changed back to the less accurate version?

Thanks Tomjstern (talk) 01:23, 26 November 2014 (UTC)

Welcome!
Hello, Tomjstern, and welcome to Wikipedia!&#32;Thank you for your contributions.

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited was Tom Stern (director), which appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article.&#32;Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

To reduce the chances of your contributions being undone, you might like to draft your revised article before submission, and then ask me or any other editor to proofread it. See our help page on userspace drafts for more details. If the page you created has already been deleted from Wikipedia, but you want to save the content from it to use for that draft, don't hesitate to ask anyone from this list and they will copy it to your user page.

One rule we do have in connection with conflicts of interest is that accounts used by more than one person will unfortunately be blocked from editing. Wikipedia generally does not allow editors to have usernames which imply that the account belongs to a company or corporation. If you have a username like this, you should request a change of username or create a new account. (A name that identifies the user as an individual within a given organization may be OK.)

Here are some pages that you might find helpful:
 * The plain and simple conflict of interest guide
 * The five pillars of Wikipedia
 * Contributing to Wikipedia
 * Tutorial
 * How to edit a page and How to develop articles
 * How to create your first article (using the Article Wizard if you wish)
 * Simplified Manual of Style

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on talk 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! - Marchjuly (talk) 05:15, 26 November 2014 (UTC)

Greetings from Tea House host
I answered your question in the teahouse but wanted to provide you with a bit more info. I know people have been leaving you a bunch of links to different articles but I'm going to leave a few more. That is the way things work here, when we have a disagreement we refer back to policies to support our arguments. The thing is there is no wikipedia bible. There are a bunch of different articles that define Wikipedia policies and they provide more a bunch of heuristics and guidelines rather than strict logical decision trees. And your particular issue: editing article(s) about yourself; is one that is probably one of the more complicated ones we deal with. (fyi copyright is probably the other). Anyway, here are two other articles that I think you might want to look at: Plain_and_simple_conflict_of_interest_guide and Autobiography  If you have questions about any of those articles or other issues feel free to reply here. I'll be watching this page so I'll see any changes you make. BTW, one thing that some new editors find confusing is that right now Wikipedia doesn't really have any software we use to capture these kinds of threaded discussions. We essentially use the same software for articles as we do for discussions about articles. We use some simple conventions
 * E.g., if you begin a paragraph with a ":" as I just did here, it will indent, each colon means one more level of indentation. That is how we get what look like threads in the tea house and on talk pages. And the same software that notifies an editor when an article they edited has been changed can also notify us when a talk page they have contributed to has changed. --MadScientistX11 (talk) 13:59, 26 November 2014 (UTC)