Matisse412

October 21, 2010

Hello, Matisse412. You have new messages at Ltwin's talk page.
You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

Conflict of interest

Hello and welcome to Wikipedia! I notice in your recent edit to Katherine Jefferts Schori that you state that you work in the communications office of the Episcopal Church. Thank you for being honest and disclosing this. You should familiarize yourself with wikipedia's policy on Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest because you almost certainly qualify as having a conflict of interest, as defined by Wikipedia, on matters relating to the church. While you are still very welcome to contribute to the improvement of relevant pages, the guidelines do ask that you follow certain practices, such as "An editor with a conflict of interest who wishes to suggest substantive changes to an article should use that article's talk page. When making a request, please consider disclosing your conflict of interest to avoid misunderstanding." I encourage you to familiarize yourself with these guidelines. Again, thank you for contributing to Wikipedia. Mrhsj (talk) 18:15, 23 February 2011 (UTC)

Formal COI warning

Welcome to Wikipedia. If you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Katharine Jefferts Schori‎‎, you may have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, edits where there is a conflict of interest, or where such a conflict might reasonably be inferred, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:

1. editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with;
2. participating in deletion discussions about articles related to your organization or its competitors; and
3. linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam).

Please familiarize yourself with relevant policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, verifiability of information, and autobiographies.

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. Valfontis (talk) 20:24, 23 February 2011 (UTC)

PB Katharine's suggestion

Dear Matisse412,

Many who are new to Wikipedia make editing mistakes; this is common enough. Re. PB Katharine's suggestion, could you tell us what it was, concretely, that she suggested? It may help clarify, or perhaps there's some way we can incorporate the suggestion without resorting to removing the material entirely.

I'd be interested in discussing this further with you, but don't always get reliable notifications from this site, and publicly available talk pages may not be the best means of communicating. You can reach me at http://jmc41.wufoo.com/forms/contact-me/ and we can discuss further via e-mail - pardon the use of a contact form instead of a direct e-mail address, but it's not wise to post one's email address on public web pages, "spambots" pick them up and then you get lots of spam.

Thanks! Jmc41 (talk) 14:09, 18 March 2011 (UTC)

Dear Jmc41

Thank you so much for your kind response, I am happy to discuss this further with you, but I appear to be having technical difficulties. I tried to access the message link that you posted, but I am unable to view the two security words. Is it possible to recommend an alternate way to communicate?

Thank you!

Matisse412 (talk) 21:23, 21 March 2011 (UTC)

Dear Matisse412,

The "captcha" on the form - for the future - can be refreshed to show new words - in case you're trying to use other applications that use this type of captcha. Yes, they can be pesky things. I've removed the captcha so you can simply send a mail directly.

Kind regards,

Jmc41 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jmc41 (talk • contribs) 22:26, 21 March 2011 (UTC)

Dear Matisse412,

Unfortunately, the mail account to which I sent you a reply has somehow become inaccessible; I will let you know via e-mail if my access is restored. In the meantime, I'd like to draw your attention to some helpful links posted by JimCubb on +KJS's talk page - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons and also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons/Noticeboard . What also might be helpful to you is this help page for persons editing their own biographies - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons/Help - Jmc41 (talk) 11:10, 23 March 2011 (UTC)

Suggestion

Hi there, I have been involved in editing as a somewhat neutral editor, but we may have met in Albany. If you have any more suggestions, you may email or message me on my talk page. Bearian (talk) 01:28, 22 March 2011 (UTC)