User talk:Mrubenstone

April 2017

Please do not remove content or templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to On the Sly: In Search of the Family Stone, without giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your content removal does not appear to be constructive and has been reverted. If you only meant to make a test edit, please use the sandbox for that. Thank you. — Malik Shabazz ^Talk/_Stalk 03:38, 27 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Mrubenstone. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places, or things you have written about in the article On the Sly: In Search of the Family Stone, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic, and it is important when editing Wikipedia articles that such connections be completely transparent. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. In particular, we ask that you please:

avoid editing or creating articles related to you and your family, friends, school, company, club, or organization, as well as any competing companies' projects or products;
instead, you are encouraged to propose changes on the Talk pages of affected article(s) (see the {{request edit}} template);
when discussing affected articles, disclose your COI (see WP:DISCLOSE);
avoid linking to the Wikipedia article or to the website of your organization in other articles (see WP:SPAM);
exercise great caution so that you do not violate 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).

Please take a few moments to read and review Wikipedia's policies regarding conflicts of interest, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, sourcing and autobiographies. Thank you. — Malik Shabazz ^Talk/_Stalk 03:39, 27 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]