User talk:Neilrlw

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Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, please do not add promotional material to articles or other Wikipedia pages, as you did to Amorphous metal . Advertising and using Wikipedia as a "soapbox" are against Wikipedia policy and not permitted. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you. Materialscientist (talk) 22:49, 30 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Amorphous metal. Wikipedia is not a collection of links, nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate links include (but are not limited to) links to personal web sites, links to web sites with which you are affiliated, and links that attract visitors to a web site or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam guideline for further explanations. Because Wikipedia uses the nofollow attribute value, its external links are disregarded by most search engines. If you feel the link should be added to the article, please discuss it on the article's talk page rather than re-adding it. Thank you. Materialscientist (talk) 01:03, 31 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

March 2011

Please do not add unsourced or original content, as you did with this edit to Amorphous metal. Doing so violates Wikipedia's verifiability policy. If you continue to do so, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Logan _Talk ^{Contributions} 01:28, 31 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Neilrlw. If you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, edits where there is a conflict of interest, or where such a conflict might reasonably be inferred, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:

editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with;
participating in deletion discussions about articles related to your organization or its competitors; and
linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam).

Please familiarize yourself with relevant policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, verifiability of information, and autobiographies.

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. According to what you posted on User talk:Materialscientist. Source everything you add. Information is not "valid" if not sourced. Jasper Deng (talk) 01:35, 31 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

This is your last warning; the next time you vandalize Wikipedia, as you did at Amorphous metal, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. Logan _Talk ^{Contributions} 01:36, 31 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Amorphous metal. Users are expected to collaborate with others and avoid editing disruptively.

In particular, the three-revert rule states that:

Making more than three reversions on a single page within a 24-hour period is almost always grounds for an immediate block.
Do not edit war even if you believe you are right.

If you find yourself in an editing dispute, use the article's talk page to discuss controversial changes; work towards a version that represents consensus among editors. You can post a request for help at an appropriate noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases it may be appropriate to request temporary page protection. If you continue to edit war, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. Jasper Deng (talk) 01:37, 31 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note

The issue is not in the veracity of your addition, but in its promotional nature, and, most of all, your persistent attempts to reinstate it. Materialscientist (talk) 01:43, 31 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Please avoid questioning editors expertise - it does not matter on wikipedia who we are, it does matter what we can write. Your writing was focused on developing a capacitor discharge power supply - a minor technological project on the scale of an encyclopedia and amorphous metal topic. (We could argue for ages on why Caltech asked you that. It is a common practice all around the world for researchers to approach a company for such tasks, and such projects are usually not notable unless your achieved a breakthrough in capacitor discharge power supplies, and if so this should go the the article related to that topic). Materialscientist (talk) 02:00, 31 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

To decipher what Materialscientist said: On Wikipedia, do not try to discredit the ideas of others based on their background, you are trying to add content related to something you're affiliated with, and you are not showing that what you're adding is relavent to the article and notable. See WP:CIVIL, WP:NPA, WP:COI, and WP:Notability. Please read them.Jasper Deng (talk) 02:19, 31 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Your recent edits

Hello. In case you didn't know, when you add content to talk pages and Wikipedia pages that have open discussion, you should sign your posts by typing four halfwidth tildes ( ~~~~ ) at the end of your comment. You could also click on the signature button located above the edit window. This will automatically insert a signature with your username or IP address and the time you posted the comment. This information is useful because other editors will be able to tell who said what, and when. Thank you. --SineBot (talk) 01:52, 31 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

You have been blocked from editing for a period of 24 hours for edit warring, as you did at Amorphous metal. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make useful contributions. If you would like to be unblocked, you may appeal this block by adding the text {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}, but you should read the guide to appealing blocks first. — HelloAnnyong ^{(say whaaat?!)} 02:56, 31 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

During a dispute, you should first try to discuss controversial changes and seek consensus. If that proves unsuccessful, you are encouraged to seek dispute resolution, and in some cases it may be appropriate to request page protection.

For reference, this is also because a second account was used to continue edit warring; see Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Neilrlw. — HelloAnnyong ^{(say whaaat?!)} 02:57, 31 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]