Welcome!

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Hello, Elijah Thomas Webb Residence, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions, especially your edits to User:Elijah Thomas Webb Residence. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:

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Issues

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It looks like you are trying to create an article about a historic house. First of all, you should create an account or username for yourself as a individual editor. This account has the name of what you intend to be an article. I would create a new account and abandon this one. The text here will not be lost, you can copy it. But the better place to construct an article is in your sandbox. This current page is a USER page where editors optionally provide info about themselves. MB 18:28, 22 August 2020 (UTC)Reply

Your submission at Articles for creation: sandbox (August 22)

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Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by UnitedStatesian was: Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.
UnitedStatesian (talk) 21:00, 22 August 2020 (UTC)Reply
 
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Managing a conflict of interest

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  Hello, Elijah Thomas Webb Residence. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the page Elijah Thomas Webb Residence, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:

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Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Please follow the instructions on how to disclose a COI. Thanks. MB 19:30, 25 August 2020 (UTC)Reply

Hi, I am the homeowner and and the pictures that were taken for the NRHP forms were all taken by me and the historic photo is from the 1890s and was a promotional souvenir booklet for Webb City and I own one of the original booklets. I have not posted anything that would benefit me in any way. Sorry if I have caused any problems. Elijah Thomas Webb Residence (talk) 02:10, 26 August 2020 (UTC)Reply
This looks sufficient. It is important since you do have a relationship with the subject. Thanks for doing this and trying to follow our policies. (On talk pages, we use colons for indentation to show which editor said what. I have added them here). MB 02:24, 26 August 2020 (UTC)Reply
No problem, and thank you for all your help. By the way...is it possible to change the name on this account and retain it, or is it a total wash? (talk) 02:58, 26 August 2020 (UTC)
Yes, you should change your username if you plan to continue editing. The instructions are at WP:RENAME. But it may be easier to just stop using this account and create another account with a name that conforms to WP:UPOL. (When you indent on talk pages with a colon, you need to increase the number each reply to indent further as I have done above.) MB 03:37, 26 August 2020 (UTC)Reply
Got it and again thanks for all your help!

Elijah Thomas Webb Residence (talk) 04:06, 26 August 2020 (UTC)Reply