User talk:Animalfair

Hi Animalfair, welcome to Wikipedia! This is a project to write an encyclopedia, where a sober, factual writing style is highly valued and opinionated advertising-like texts are not appropriate - see our neutral point of view policy.

Are you in any way affiliated with Wendy Diamond or Animal Fair magazine? If that is the case, please have a look at our Conflict of interest guidelines and be aware that Wikipedia is not a free advertising space - have a look at Wikipedia:FAQ/Business (especially the section "May I advertise my organization or its campaigns, products, services or leading individuals on Wikipedia?").

Today you reverted the edits of three other editors without explaining why you did so. For example, these two reverts made no sense, because the image in question does not exist any more. (If you want to know why it was deleted, have a look at the deletion log and ask the administrators who deleted it.)

Regards, HaeB (talk) 15:57, 10 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

July 2009

If you have a close connection to some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Wendy Diamond, 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:

editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with;
participating in deletion discussions about articles related to your organization or its competitors; and
linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Wikipedia: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. Thank you. Mfield (Oi!) 06:24, 4 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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