User talk:SMCornes123

Welcome!

Hello, StevieCornese2v, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited was e2v, 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 any other 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.)

Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

The plain and simple conflict of interest guide
The five pillars of Wikipedia
Contributing to Wikipedia
Tutorial
How to edit a page and How to develop articles
How to create your first article (using the Article Wizard if you wish)
Simplified Manual of Style

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! Dpmuk (talk) 22:28, 13 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

{{Help me}} Hello Dpmuk, I am new to Wikipedia so am just getting used to how to use it. Further to your advice, I have completely removed the dubious entry from the page. We will get the facts verified and then update the page accordingly. With regards to changing my username, I would like to do this as you advised - I followed the link you sent to the page that tells you about this, but I cannot see anywhere that allows you to request that your username gets changed - are you able to advise please? Thank you StevieCornese2v (talk) 16:17, 14 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry for not getting back to you sooner. As you may have noticed from my user page I'm not really very active on wikipedia anymore - I mainly just edit when I come across something while I am browsing the site for some reason. Anyway, first off, I want to note that I do no think your user name is a problem as it clearly applies to a single person in the company rather than the company itself. That said there is nothing stopping you changing it, and personally I think this is probably a good idea anyway. The link to do so is at the bottom of Wikipedia:Changing username, labelled 'Simple' and is specifically Wikipedia:Changing_username/Simple (assuming you don't want to take a username already in use - and you are unlikely to be successful at this even if you did). I will try and keep a better eye on your posts here.

Finally I'm guessing here that you're some sort of technical person as by copying the markup, rather than the displayed code, for the help me request you actually did it wrong. What you copied is used to display the code properly on someone user's page. What you actually needed to add to your page is simply Help me inside two curly brackets. Help me is a template - essentially a short cut to mark up stored elsewhere - that is then displayed in any page the template is added to. To add a template to a page you enclosed it in two curly brackets. Obviously that means we can't just type the code here to show you what to do, so we use another template tlc that then displays the code properly on the displayed user page. I'm sorry if that's not very clear - I don't think I've described it very well. (As an aside a template may also add a page to a category and this is part of what help me does so people can see you're looking for help). Dpmuk (talk) 23:56, 22 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your help. I think I have now submitted the request to change my username. Regarding your second comment, I am not a technical person, I just copied and pasted what I saw on the screen, apologies if this was wrong. StevieCornese2v (talk) 11:25, 24 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]