Welcome!

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Hello, EZMedMan, and welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you may find helpful:

Need some ideas of what kind of things need doing? Try the Wikipedia:Task Center. You may also want to complete the Wikipedia Adventure, an interactive tour that will help you learn the basics of editing Wikipedia. You can visit the Teahouse to ask questions or seek help. I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or post a question on your own talk page. Again, welcome!  — rsjaffe 🗣️ 18:20, 2 November 2022 (UTC)Reply

A lengthy welcome

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Hi EZMedMan. Welcome to Wikipedia. I hope you don't mind if I share some of my thoughts on starting out as a new editor on Wikipedia: If I could get editors in your situation to follow just one piece of advice, it would be this: Learn Wikipedia by working only on non-contentious topics until you have a feel for the normal editing process and the policies that usually come up when editing casually. You'll find editing to be fun, easy, and rewarding. The rare disputes are resolved quickly and easily in collaboration.

Working on biographical information about living persons is far more difficult. Wikipedia's Biographies of living persons policy requires strict adherence to multiple content policies, and applies to all information about living persons including talk pages.

If you have a relationship with the topics you want to edit, then you will need to review Wikipedia's Conflict of interest policy, which may require you to disclose your relationship and restrict your editing depending upon how you are affiliated with the subject matter. Regardless, editing in a manner that promotes an entity or viewpoint over others can appear to be detrimental to the purpose of Wikipedia and the neutrality required in articles.

Some topic areas within Wikipedia have special editing restrictions that apply to all editors. It's best to avoid these topics until you are extremely familiar with all relevant policies and guidelines.

If you work from reliable, independent sources, you shouldn't go far wrong. WP:RSP and WP:RSN are helpful in determining if a source is reliable.

If you find yourself in a disagreement with another editor, it's best to discuss the matter on the relevant talk page.

I hope you find some useful information in all this, and welcome again. --Hipal (talk) 18:20, 4 November 2022 (UTC)Reply

Updates to Primerica Page

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Hi there, EZMedan. I am a representative of Primerica's corporate office. Appreciate the edits you made to the Primerica page, however, although they are accurate, we would ask that you revert these changes given you have a COI since you work for e-Telequote a company owned by us (see [Conflict of Interest]. Apologies for being a stickler about this, but as a company we want to be respectful of all Wikipedia guidelines. You'll notice on the TALK page we have some outstanding update requests for consideration. That is how usually get the page updated and ensures that it has been reviewed properly and meets guidelines. Thanks so very much. TermLifeOG (talk) 17:15, 11 November 2022 (UTC)Reply

Of course! I will do so. EZMedMan (talk) 17:17, 11 November 2022 (UTC)Reply
Thanks so much!!! Appreciate you trying to help! Happy editing! TermLifeOG (talk) 17:25, 11 November 2022 (UTC)Reply

Promotional edits

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  Please do not add promotional material to Wikipedia. While objective prose about beliefs, organisations, people, products or services is acceptable, Wikipedia is not a vehicle for soapboxing, advertising or promotion. Thank you. Sam Kuru (talk) 18:09, 12 December 2022 (UTC)Reply