User talk:Brett james ogle

Note to other editors/admins: This account was created from Brett Ogle's official website, using his official email address. Please do not report or block this account on the basis that you believe this to be an imposter. Please contact me (as the member of the Account Creation Team who created it) if there are any problems. -- PhantomSteve/talk|contribs\ 23:05, 29 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome!

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

The five pillars of Wikipedia
Tutorial
How to edit a page and How to develop articles
How to create your first article (using the Article Wizard if you wish)
Manual of Style

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{helpme}} before the question. Again, welcome! -- PhantomSteve/talk|contribs\ 23:00, 29 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Possible conflict of interest

When I created your account, I noticed that you work for a your own website as a website owner (Professional Golfer). I would refer you to the guidelines on Conflict of Interest (see here).

If your intention is to edit articles about the your own website (or yourself), I would suggest that anything that you want to add/change/remove is discussed on the relevant talk page (just click at the top of the article's page on the discussion tab) - and provide reliable and independent sources for anything to be changed (see Wikipedia:Independent sources and Wikipedia:Reliable sources). Also declare your connection with the your own website.

If your intention is to create an article about the your own website (or yourself), I would suggest that you put a request in at Requested Articles, explaining your connection to the company, and what you would like to be put into an article. Ideally, this would include sources of information that are reliable and independent of the your own website.

If your intention is to edit in other areas, then please accept my apologies — as you will no doubt appreciate, we have a lot of people who create accounts to edit areas in which they are personally involved!

Enjoy editing here, and if you have any questions, ask for help by using any of the methods mentioned in my welcome message above!

Regards, -- PhantomSteve/talk|contribs\ 23:05, 29 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Real name accounts

You might want to read the User name policy, particularly the section entitled Real names which explains the potential problems with using an account which is your real name. If you decide that you would rather not use your real name, please follow the instructions on the User name policy for changing your user name (but please note that you are still covered by the Conflict of Interest guidelines -- PhantomSteve/talk|contribs\ 23:05, 29 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Editing the article about yourself

You are strongly discouraged from editing the article about yourself (or other articles mentioning you), as it can be hard to maintain a neutral point of view when writing about yourself!

May I suggest that any alterations you wish to make (or additions/removals) are discussed on the talk page (here), along with reliable and independent sources that back up the changes? Although you obviously know a lot about yourself (!), Wikipedia requires that information (especially in biographies of living people) has reliable sources for information, so that this can be verified by others.

If you have any other questions, please feel free to contact me.

Regards, -- PhantomSteve/talk|contribs\ 23:28, 29 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I see that you added information to the article, which was reverted. Please follow my advice above, namely:
1. Ensure that all information to be added/removed/amended has reliable sources
2. Discuss the changes on the article's talk page.

Without reliable sources, alterations to articles about living people are usually reverted on sight. As a warning, editors who keep adding unsourced information can face temporary blocks from editing Wikipedia - and I really don't want to see that happen to you!

The best sources are places like national/international newspapers and magazines (NY Times, Washington Post, London Times, Guardian, etc etc) - but not press releases. -- PhantomSteve/talk|contribs\ 00:32, 30 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]