User talk:Viewfromsc

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Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing 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! --do ncr am 20:47, 27 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Harmony, Florida and COI

The welcome message above is a canned-type message, but I do personally welcome you to Wikipedia. You addressed a question or two directly to me at Talk:Harmony, Florida. Let me suggest that I think you probably could read Wikipedia:Conflict of interest about our Conflict of Interest policy, which might apply to you and pretty surely applies to George Schiro, regarding the Harmony, Florida article. George, and maybe you, should try to comply with procedure, which seems to be that COI editors shouldn't edit directly in an article, but rather should post to the Talk page and make an "Edit Request" for an uninvolved person to come and make a decision. That's what's going on.

I don't "own" the Harmony article, and I didn't decide on the Edit request outstanding. I just commented. As you can see higher up in the Talk page, i got involved by chance following Sphilbrick editor to the page, and I tried some to help out before.

My two cents of advice, which I also told George previously: please try contributing to some Wikipedia articles where you have no possible conflict of interest for a while and learn the ropes, learn how things work. It will probably be much easier, much less frustrating that dealing with an apparently controversial topic where there is a lot of scrutiny and administration going on. Then come back in 6 months or so, and see what you can contribute. You don't have to follow this advice of course. But if your only interest is in the one article, and you have a slant that you want it to be really positive or really negative or some other agenda, then you would not be a help to Wikipedia. Me and a couple thousand other frequent editors are trying to build an encyclopedia, not post grievances or perform PR or otherwise help others achieve goals that should not be done within encyclopedic articles. Anyhow, I do assume you are acting in good faith, and I appreciate your interest. I'll watch for any response here, but feel free to post at my Talk page if I haven't replied. Cheers, --do ncr am 20:47, 27 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]