User talk:Branchc

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Happy editing! SwisterTwister talk 22:09, 16 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Nomination of Gleb Tsipursky for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Gleb Tsipursky is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

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Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Chetsford (talk) 06:46, 4 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello, I'm Ronz. I wanted to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions have been undone because they appeared to be promotional. Advertising and using Wikipedia as a "soapbox" are against Wikipedia policy and not permitted; Wikipedia articles should be written objectively, using independent sources, and from a neutral perspective. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you.

See also WP:COI in case it might apply. --Ronz (talk) 16:59, 20 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for responding. Maybe this will help, information that I offer to new and inexperienced editors:

If I could get editors in your situation to follow just one piece of advice, it would be this: Learn Wikipedia by working only on non-contentious topics until you have a feel for the normal editing process and the policies that usually come up when editing casually. You'll find editing to be fun, easy, and rewarding. The rare disputes are resolved quickly and easily.

Working on biographical information about living persons is far more difficult. Wikipedia's Biographies of living persons policy requires strict adherence to multiple content policies, and applies to all information about living persons including talk pages.

If you have a relationship with the topics you want to edit, then you will need to review Wikipedia's Conflict of interest policy, which may require you to disclose your relationship and restrict your editing depending upon how you are affiliated with the subject matter.

Some topic areas within Wikipedia have special editing restrictions that apply to all editors. It's best to avoid these topics until you are extremely familiar with all relevant policies and guidelines.

You hit all three with your edits: promotional editing with a conflict of interest, in biographies, many of which are under general sanctions. It's very thin ice. --Ronz (talk) 21:51, 21 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

"PSIM (dismbiguation)" listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect PSIM (dismbiguation). Since you had some involvement with the PSIM (dismbiguation) redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so. TheAwesome Hwyh 01:52, 30 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Of course the page with “disambiguation” spelled wrong should be deleted; I thought I had done that. As far as the disambiguation page itself, I vaguely remember creating it when I searched for PSIM and found only a reference to an Indonesian football club. Pretty sure most people looking for PSIM would expect to find the common security industry term instead. Branchc (talk) 02:08, 30 March 2020 (UTC) Branchc (talk) 02:08, 30 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]