User talk:John Towey

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, John Towey. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you have an external relationship with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article John Towey, you may have a conflict of interest or close connection to the subject.

All editors are required to comply with Wikipedia's neutral point of view content policy. People who are very close to a subject often have a distorted view of it, which may cause them to inadvertently edit in ways that make the article either too flattering or too disparaging. People with a close connection to a subject are not absolutely prohibited from editing about that subject, but they need to be especially careful about ensuring their edits are verified by reliable sources and writing with as little bias as possible.

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For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Thank you. General Ization ^Talk 02:55, 14 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

July 2015

Please do not write or add to an article about yourself, as you apparently did at John Towey. Creating an autobiography is strongly discouraged – see our guideline on writing autobiographies. If you create such an article, it may be deleted. If what you have done in life is genuinely notable and can be verified according to our policy for articles about living people, someone else will probably create an article about you sooner or later (see Wikipedians with articles). If you wish to add to an existing article about yourself, please propose the changes on its talk page. Please understand that this is an encyclopedia and not a personal web space or social networking site. If your article has already been deleted, please see: Why was my page deleted?, and if you feel the deletion was an error, please discuss it with the deleting administrator. Thank you. General Ization ^Talk 02:55, 14 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Response

Hello General Ization,

I am actually John Towey's son; we have the same name. I appologize for revising the page. I was unaware of the COI policy. My mother died in 2007 and my father remarried just last year; I was simply trying to make the page reflect this. I will use the talk page for any further suggestions for edits. John Towey (talk) 03:56, 14 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]