User talk:Resabed

Hello, Resabed, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.I am Earlymen, I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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Possible Conflict of Interest

Hello, I see that you might be affiliated with the 278, and would like to point you to our advice for military representatives at User:Bahamut0013/Unit representatives. I strongly suggest you read it to prevent making any accidents. Also, your username does not comply with our policies for WP:User name, specifically WP:ORGNAME because it represents an official organization. I would strongly suggest that we change it, which you can do through Wikipedia:Changing username. If you have any questions feel free to contact me, Sadads (talk) 13:45, 27 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, biggest advice in avoiding any negative reaction based on Conflict of interest concerns is making sure that all of the information that you add to your Wikipedia page is Verifiable. Remember, Wikipedia articles are meant to summarize what is available public knowledge about an organization, which means that you carefully reference the information so that people can verify that in fact this knowledge is truthful. Also, try to keep an even balance between all represented opinions about the unit that have been published in reliable WP:Secondary sources, to help the content meet our Neutral Point of View policy. I would suggest looking at the style of writing and referencing, of some of WP:WikiProject Military History's featured articles, which are listed in their Showcase and includes similar unit pages like 13th Airborne Division (United States) and their good articles and a-class articles like 102nd Intelligence Wing and 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team which offer good models which to do your work. Though you probably shouldn't expect your first editing work to immediately look like this, these are community reviewed examples to aspire to. I also invited User:Bahamut0013 to provide feedback/support as well, because I have been doing less work in Military history recently, and am busy in real life :P If you ever need any other help, or we are not very responsive (respond within 24 hours to a question on a discussion page), feel free to leave a message at WT:MILHIST, and someone else who specializes in Military topics will come along and try to support you. I am monitoring your edits to the article on your unit, so will make sure that you don't do anything that doesn't quite work, and will inform you when you do, Sadads (talk) 14:08, 27 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks a bunch mate, I'll look over the sites you linked and start digging out the references for the previous edits. I appreciate your interest and help. 278ACR (talk) 14:14, 27 May 2011 (UTC) (soon to be resabed)[reply]

I would suggest making sure that you include footnotes using the <ref> </ref> tags around citations of the various references you are using to verify the information. I would suggest the "Cite" tab at the top right of the edit screen to help you write the citations using citation templates, Sadads (talk) 15:42, 27 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]