User talk:JacobJacobJacob2423
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[edit]Hello, Jacob SalterMitchellPR, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.
I noticed that one of the first articles you edited was Chuck Wolfe (executive), which appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article. Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.
To reduce the chances of your contributions being undone, you might like to draft your revised article before submission, and then ask me or another editor to proofread it. See our help page on userspace drafts for more details. If the page you created has already been deleted from Wikipedia, but you want to save the content from it to use for that draft, don't hesitate to ask anyone from this list and they will copy it to your user page.
One rule we do have in connection with conflicts of interest is that accounts used by more than one person will unfortunately be blocked from editing. Wikipedia generally does not allow editors to have usernames which imply that the account belongs to a company or corporation. If you have a username like this, you should request a change of username or create a new account. (A name that identifies the user as an individual within a given organization may be OK.)
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- The plain and simple conflict of interest guide
- The five pillars of Wikipedia
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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on talk 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 {{Help me}} before the question. Again, welcome! Ifnord (talk) 18:53, 7 December 2018 (UTC)
Further information relating to Wikipedia's conflict of interest guidelines
[edit]Here are some comments relating to the "conflict of interest" issue that Ifnord has told you about in the message above, which I offer you in the hope they may be helpful to you.
The message above gives links to various pages. It may well be that there are, in fact, too many links, as you are confronted with such a large volume of information that it is unreasonable to expect you to read and remember all of it. The full official position on the issue is given at Wikipedia:Conflict of interest, which is not linked to above. Unfortunately, like most Wikipedia policies and guidelines, it is rather long and complex (in my opinion far too long and complex), and some editors have attempted to provide simpler summaries of the essential points at Wikipedia:Plain and simple conflict of interest guide and at Wikipedia:Best practices for editors with close associations, which are linked in the message above. Unfortunately, although the "Plain and simple guide" was evidently written with the intention of helping by being simpler than the full guideline, over the years it has been extended and added to, and it is now actually longer than the official guideline, and I am not sure how much advantage there is in reading the "Plain and simple guide" rather than going directly to the official guideline. "Best practices", however, is much shorter, and does give a brief and accessible summary of the basic points, so you may therefore find it helpful to look at it, if you haven't already done so. In any case, you should read at least one of those three pages before doing any more editing (again, if you have not already done so).
If you look at any one of those pages you will see that they tell us that we should not edit articles about subjects to which we have a personal connection, but should instead suggest changes for other editors to consider making. I mention this because I see that you have continued to do such editing after receiving the above message. I am not at all surprised at that, since, as I have said above, so much information was thrown at you that you could not be expected to read it all and take it all in, and it for that reason that I have written these comments. As I said above, I hope they may be helpful to you. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 10:38, 11 December 2018 (UTC)