User talk:Daniel Draney

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Conflicts of Interest

Daniel, you might want to take a minute to review our conflict of interest guidelines before continuing to add references to your own works to Wikipedia articles. To avoid even the appearance of impropriety, it's usually best to offer suggestions in Talk rather than adding material directly to articles if it's a subject in which you have a direct, vested interest. ElKevbo (talk) 15:38, 4 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the reply.

Yes, citing your own work can be perceived as a conflict of interest by some editors. We simply can't easily tell if someone citing their own work is genuinely contributing to the encyclopedia or if they're editing more to promote their own work and increase its use and prominence. It might seem a bit absurd but this is an odd environment in which to work and the relative anonymity of the very large, heterogeneous community of editors greatly affects how we operate and interact. In general, it's probably best to just post to Talk with specific suggestions if you think your own work should be cited; in most cases, editors are glad to take concrete suggestions that are supported by good evidence. That would erase most doubts about your motivation for citing your own work since you didn't directly edit the article.

(Personally, I tend to avoid some of the topics in which I am an expert because I find that whole dance too frustrating. I understand why skepticism must be one of the driving forces in a project being built by a huge group of anonymous strangers but I grow impatient having to justify every single thing. "Trust me - I know!" isn't a valid reason to add or remove information from an encyclopedia even when the information is completely accepted and known within my community of peer experts.)

Best of luck and let me know if you have any questions or need any help! ElKevbo (talk) 21:51, 4 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation

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Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia! Bonkers The Clown (Nonsensical Babble) 07:25, 6 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/John Murdoch MacInnis concern

Hi there, I'm HasteurBot. I just wanted to let you know that Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/John Murdoch MacInnis, a page you created has not been edited in at least 180 days. The Articles for Creation space is not an indefinite storage location for content that is not appropriate for articlespace. If your submission is not edited soon, it could be nominated for deletion. If you would like to attempt to save it, you will need to improve it. If the deletion has already occured, instructions on how you may be able to retrieve it are available at WP:REFUND/G13. Thank you for your attention. HasteurBot (talk) 21:09, 4 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Your article submission John Murdoch MacInnis

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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. HasteurBot (talk) 01:17, 5 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]