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Hello, Vertebralstapling, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question and then place {{helpme}} before the question on your talk page. Again, welcome! --Ronz (talk) 16:29, 9 March 2008 (UTC)Reply

Conflict of interest

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  If you have a close connection to some of the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, 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 from the tone of the edit and the proximity of the editor to the subject, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:

  1. editing 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;
  3. linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam);
    and you must always:
  4. avoid breaching relevant policies and guidelines, especially neutral point of view, verifiability, and autobiography.

For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have conflict of interest, please see Wikipedia:Business' FAQ. For more details about what constitutes a conflict of interest, please see Wikipedia:Conflict of Interest. Thank you. [1] --Ronz (talk) 16:29, 9 March 2008 (UTC)Reply

See also WP:SOAP --Ronz (talk) 16:29, 9 March 2008 (UTC)Reply

Inappropriate username

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Hello Vertebralstapling. Please consider creating a new account that does not resemble so closely the name of the web site vertebralstapling.com. Wikipedia is very sensitive to user names that appear promotional. If you don't change it, the possibility exists that an administrator might block the current name as an inappropriate username. EdJohnston (talk) 22:20, 9 March 2008 (UTC)Reply

FYI: Discussion

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You may want to read and contribute to the discussion here: Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Spam#http:.2F.2Fspam.vertebralstapling.com. --Ronz (talk) 18:22, 10 March 2008 (UTC)Reply