User talk:Urbanetryst

Spamming Wikipedia
If you have a close connection to some of the people, places or things you have written about, 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 from the tone of the edit and the proximity of the editor to the subject, 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;
 * 2) participating in deletion discussions about articles related to your organization or its competitors;
 * 3) linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Spam); and,
 * 4) avoid breaching relevant policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, verifiability of information, and autobiographies.

For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for businesses. For more details about what, exactly, constitutes a conflict of interest, please see our conflict of interest guidelines. -- Orange Mike  &#x007C;   Talk  21:06, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

Article creation
The usual procedure is to write the article first, then publish it. You wouldn't submit your first set of sketchy notes to the editor of, say, Harper's; you would submit a finished article. You can, if you like, use a sandbox; this makes it easier to get the Wiki markup language right. -- Orange Mike  &#x007C;   Talk  21:25, 13 August 2008 (UTC)