User talk:Vannbaker

August 2009
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; and
 * 3) linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Spam).

Please familiarize yourself with 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 organizations. For more details about what, exactly, constitutes a conflict of interest, please see our conflict of interest guidelines. BusterD (talk) 21:38, 12 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Welcome to Wikipedia! I placed the above standard warning to provide you links to information about Wikipedia policy, but didn't revert the insertion of the link. It's not for me to judge the worth of the content of the website you've linked, but generally speaking, inserting links to organizations with which you have a clear and vital association is considered a conflict of interest. I've stepped into these waters myself, and it's tricky to keep the need to build a first class encyclopedia above a desire to see our own worthy endeavor get the link. It's to your credit you chose to make these contributions under your own name, and for that reason (primarily) I'm treating your link insertion as a good faith contribution. Be aware other editors may not agree with me, and may choose to remove the link as "spam." For this reason I urge you to consider two suggestions: 1) please refrain from adding the link to other Wikipedia pages, and 2) please feel invited to read and edit other Wikipedia pages, to better familiarize yourself with how we get things done around here. Good luck, and if you find you need help, feel free to contact me on my talk page. BusterD (talk) 21:58, 12 August 2009 (UTC)