User talk:AAOwen

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AAOwen, good luck, and have fun. --PamD 11:54, 25 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Conflict of interest

Hello AAOwen. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest or close connection to the subject.

All editors are required to comply with Wikipedia's neutral point of view content policy. People who are very close to a subject often have a distorted view of it, which may cause them to inadvertently edit in ways that make the article either too flattering or too disparaging. People with a close connection to a subject are not absolutely prohibited from editing about that subject, but they need to be especially careful about following the reliable sources and writing with as little bias as possible.

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Please familiarize yourself with relevant content 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 a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Thank you. --Deskford (talk) 14:00, 17 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

January 2012

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at List of students of Nadia Boulanger. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted or removed. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. Dori ☾Talk ⁘ Contribs☽ 00:20, 18 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Talkback

Hello, AAOwen. You have new messages at DoriSmith's talk page.
Message added 01:08, 25 January 2012 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.[reply]

Dori ☾Talk ⁘ Contribs☽ 01:08, 25 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, AAOwen. You have new messages at Deskford's talk page.
You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

--Deskford (talk) 16:01, 25 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]