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January 2013

Hello, Bnlawrance. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may need to consider our guidance on conflicts of interest.

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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. 99.136.252.89 (talk) 18:43, 16 January 2013 (UTC)

Regarding copyright violations, WP:PARAPHRASE is relevant, as well. 99.136.252.89 (talk) 18:55, 16 January 2013 (UTC)

Talkback

Hello, Bnlawrance. You have new messages at Talk:Benjamin Lawrance.
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—Darkwind (talk) 20:10, 16 January 2013 (UTC)

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Your recent edits

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...kind of more of same

Welcome to Wikipedia. It might not have been your intention, but your recent edit removed maintenance templates from Wikipedia. When removing maintenance templates, please be sure to either resolve the problem that the template refers to, or give a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry, as your removal of this template has been reverted. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia, and if you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. 99.136.252.89 (talk) 20:46, 18 January 2013 (UTC)

• Yes, the templates are valid. Please don't delete them again. You are editing the article on you, which is strongly discouraged, especially if, as it seems, you are not editing in accordance with Wikipedia's guidelines on neutrality. An encyclopedic article should not look like a resume. Thank you, Drmies (talk) 21:14, 18 January 2013 (UTC)

This is your only warning; if you use Wikipedia for soapboxing, promotion or advertising again, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. Dear Bnlawrance, this can't go on. You keep re-adding content that at least three editors (two of them administrators) have removed. You have not responded to any of the messages on your talk page or on the article's talk page, and you aren't giving edit summaries explaining what you're doing and why. Moreover, it is appears like you are really interested in Wikipedia only to post your resume. That cannot be. If you return to this article, and if you again make the kind of edits that has been reverted again and again, I will have no choice but to block you. Sorry, but that's the way it is; I hope it doesn't get that far. Drmies (talk) 23:38, 18 January 2013 (UTC)

Drmies, I apologize. I didn't realize I'd returned material that was removed. I did respond to specific requests, deleting the Rotary reference, and some fellowships, and other material. I won't touch it further. (Bnlawrance (talk) 14:59, 19 January 2013 (UTC))

• Dear Bnlawrance, we're not out to get you or to delete your article. We are interested, of course, in a decent article on a notable person. We can't automatically forbid you from editing it, nor do we want to, but if you do edit an article which which you have a conflict of interest, you need to be double sure that such edits are neutral and well-verified, and that they agree with guidelines in WP:BLP, our policy for biographies of living persons. Thank you, Drmies (talk) 18:36, 19 January 2013 (UTC)