Rocksmith14

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Berncenter. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Michelle Bernard, you may have a conflict of interest.

All editors are required to comply with Wikipedia's neutral point of view content policy. People who are very close to a subject often have a distorted view of it, which may cause them to inadvertently edit in ways that make the article either too flattering or too disparaging. People with a close connection to a subject are not absolutely prohibited from editing about that subject, but they need to be especially careful about ensuring their edits are verified by reliable sources and writing with as little bias as possible.

If you are very close to a subject, here are some ways you can reduce the risk of problems:

• Avoid or exercise great caution when editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with.
• Avoid linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam).
• Exercise great caution so that you do not accidentally breach Wikipedia's content policies.

Please familiarize yourself with relevant content 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. -- dsprc ^[talk] 02:59, 14 July 2014 (UTC)

Your username

Welcome to Wikipedia. I saw that you edited or created Michelle Bernard, and I noticed that your username, "Berncenter", may not comply with our username policy. Please note that you may not use a username that represents the name of a company, group, organization, product, or website. Examples of usernames that are not allowed include "XYZ Company", "MyWidgetsUSA.com", and "Trammel Museum of Art". However, you are invited to use a username that contains such a name if it identifies you personally, such as "Mark at WidgetsUSA", "Jack Smith at the XY Foundation", and "WidgetFan87". Please also note that Wikipedia does not allow accounts to be shared by multiple people, and that you may not advocate for or promote any company, group, organization, product, or website, regardless of your username. Moreover, I recommend that you read our conflict of interest guideline. If you are a single individual and are willing to contribute to Wikipedia in an unbiased manner, please create a new account or request a username change that complies with our username policy. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. Thank you. -- dsprc ^[talk] 03:00, 14 July 2014 (UTC)

Rocksmith14, you are invited to the Teahouse!

Hi Rocksmith14! Thanks for contributing to Wikipedia. Be our guest at the Teahouse! The Teahouse is a friendly space where new editors can ask questions about contributing to Wikipedia and get help from peers and experienced editors. I hope to see you there! Osarius (I'm a Teahouse host) Visit the Teahouse This message was delivered automatically by your robot friend, HostBot (talk) 16:09, 14 July 2014 (UTC)

July 2014

Please do not remove content or templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Michelle Bernard, without giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your content removal does not appear constructive and has been reverted. Please make use of the sandbox if you'd like to experiment with test edits. Thank you. -- dsprc ^[talk] 16:07, 14 July 2014 (UTC)

Please stop your disruptive editing, as you did at Michelle Bernard. Your edits have been reverted or removed.

• If you are engaged in an article content dispute with another editor, discuss the matter with the editor at their talk page, or the article's talk page. Alternatively you can read Wikipedia's dispute resolution page, and ask for independent help at one of the relevant notice boards.
• If you are engaged in any other form of dispute that is not covered on the dispute resolution page, seek assistance at Wikipedia's Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents.

Do not continue to make edits that appear disruptive until the dispute is resolved through consensus. Continuing to edit disruptively may result in your being blocked from editing. -- dsprc ^[talk] 17:15, 14 July 2014 (UTC)

Your recent editing history at Michelle Bernard shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war. Being involved in an edit war can result in your being blocked from editing—especially if you violate the three-revert rule, which states that an editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Undoing another editor's work—whether in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material each time—counts as a revert. Also keep in mind that while violating the three-revert rule often leads to a block, you can still be blocked for edit warring—even if you don't violate the three-revert rule—should your behavior indicate that you intend to continue reverting repeatedly.

To avoid being blocked, instead of reverting please consider using the article's talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. See BRD for how this is done. If discussions reach an impasse, you can then post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection. -- dsprc ^[talk] 17:16, 14 July 2014 (UTC)

This is your last warning. The next time you disrupt Wikipedia, as you did at Michelle Bernard with this edit, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. ♥ Solarra ♥ ^{♪ 話 ♪} ߷ _{♀ 投稿 ♀} 18:29, 14 July 2014 (UTC)

Michelle Bernard

Namaste, Rock. I have left several messages on Talk:Michelle Bernard. We have lots of editors with differing opinions on things so, we use discussion to solve content disputes; please engage in such discussion so that we can iron this out. Hope to see you there! :) Also, please read that bit at the top of your talk page here about conflicts of interest. Thank you, and welcome to Wikipedia. -- dsprc ^[talk] 18:58, 14 July 2014 (UTC)

dsprc

Namaste, No association with MB; chose an incorrect username. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rocksmith14 (talk • contribs)

Twice in a row...? Please note that involvement does not exclude you from editing the article; it does change the way we edit it collectively, however; in that, it would require slightly more discussion about proposed changes. If you actually did have some sort of connection to Bern or the organizations she is involved with, the community looks favorably upon those with openly declared connections because it shows honesty and it helps to foster trust. If you would like to improve the article, the first paragraph in the 'bio' section needs inline citations for every one of those sentences and claims... and we need more third party sources other than Bern to back this stuff up; Right now most citations have Bern or connected sources as author/publisher, which is undesirable. Either way, please do not continue to vandalize the Bern article until you've addressed the issues I've written about on the talk page. We work by consensus here. Thank you and Namaste. :) -- dsprc ^[talk] 17:46, 25 July 2014 (UTC)

No malicious intentions here. Appreciate the advice. Namaste, Rocksmith14 (talk) 20:35, 25 July 2014 (UTC)