User talk:David Dilley

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, David Dilley. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the article 2018 Atlantic hurricane season, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. Editing for the purpose of advertising or promotion is not permitted. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:

avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, company, organization or competitors;
propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (see the {{request edit}} template);
disclose your COI when discussing affected articles (see WP:DISCLOSE);
avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see WP:SPAM);
do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID). Thank you. 331dot (talk) 14:02, 23 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

More specifically, posting a link to something that you created could be seen as spam. Wikipedia pages are not collections of links. You also should not be the one to post about your own work directly even if it does somehow merit mention on the article. It should only be posted about if independent third parties write about your work. In any event, you should first discuss any additions related to your work on the relevant article talk page. 331dot (talk) 14:05, 23 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

January 2018

Hello, I'm 331dot. I noticed that you made a change to an article, 2017 Atlantic hurricane season, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so! If you need guidance on referencing, please see the referencing for beginners tutorial, or if you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. 331dot (talk) 14:22, 23 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]