User talk:P5000

Welcome!

Hello, P5000, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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BNW

Please try to remember to leave edit summaries, so that other editors can more easily understand ambiguous edits like this edit. I'm not sure why you've been deleting that content from the Brave New Waves article. Is there something incorrect or against policy in there? (you can reply here). Thanks :) --Quiddity 01:18, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Also make them bring Brave New Waves back ;_; - BalthCat 06:11, 6 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

December 2023

Hello, I'm Yoshi24517. I noticed that you made a change to an article, Patti Schmidt, but you didn't provide a source. I’ve removed it for now, but if you’d like to include a citation to a reliable source and re-add it, please do so! If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. Yoshi24517 (Chat) (Online) 21:08, 8 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

hi I'm patti schmidt. and i'm trying to update and clarify my page. i was just about to come back and add links and things P5000 (talk) 21:13, 8 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

can you please restore what i've been working on? P5000 (talk) 21:15, 8 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, P5000. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Patti Schmidt, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. 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, colleagues, company, organization, clients, or competitors;
propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the {{edit COI}} template);
disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see Wikipedia:Conflict of interest § How to disclose a COI);
avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam § External link spamming);
do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. ... discospinster _talk 01:54, 9 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

hi thank you for your reply. this page has been out of date, missing information and inaccurate on several points for some time. i welcome any checks to the text and its accuracies. and i have added references to support. P5000 (talk) 02:04, 9 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry I didn't see your message until this morning, as I wasn't online yesterday evening. I haven't really been a major contributor to it at all, to be honest: while I've certainly popped in a few times to make minor edits like adding or revising categories or wikilinks, I really haven't ever had very much involvement in the article's content at all. But that said, I can tell you that when it comes to the writing tone, we want it to be neutral and objective, rather than reading like a promotional advertisement that was written by a PR agent. It's actually a very tricky balance to get this right when you're writing about yourself, because people generally have a hard time being strictly objective about themselves, and tend to think they're writing neutrally when in fact they aren't — which is precisely why our COI rules strongly discourage editing on topics you have a direct personal investment in.
We are, of course, happy to update articles with new or corrected information if they contain errors or are out-of-date, but we just need to be careful to ensure that the writing tone and the referencing stay within what's considered proper Wikipedia format. Generally speaking, when that's the situation you're encouraged to propose the desired changes on the article's talk page, so that Wikipedia editors can review what's neutral and what's promotional and make the necessary adjustments, rather than just directly editing the article yourself. So I've actually taken a look at the edits you made yesterday, and make some changes to it to ensure that it complies with our rules. I've kept the facts fundamentally intact, but have cleaned up some of the writing around them, and have added improved referencing for various things. Bearcat (talk) 13:40, 9 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
understood.thanks for taking a look through that. P5000 (talk) 16:15, 9 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]