User talk:WireEDMguy

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

I notice that one of the first articles you edited was Leatherman, 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.

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Leatherman

Thank you for the note. First, many of the edits you made were an improvement over a rather poor article (your edit). And factual updates are always appreciated, and your edit to the beginning was a big improvement. What got the radar going was the removal of some sourced content, specifically in the history area, plus these lines:

dedicated to the repair and rebuilding from any misadventure
will be replaced with an equivalent tool and sent back within several days

Those sentences and in general that area of content you added comes across as marketing. So, if you revert my reversion of your edit, but re-insert the removed history portion (some of it you just moved), and then tone down or remove the area that comes across as marketing, then the edits are basically fine. Some if it still needs to sourced (see our policy on verifiability, plus what a reliable source is). Otherwise, happy editing. Aboutmovies (talk) 16:41, 21 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]