Wmshultz

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Welcome!

Hello, Wmshultz, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited was SimpliVity, which appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article. Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

To reduce the chances of your contributions being undone, you might like to draft your revised article before submission, and then ask me or another editor to proofread it. See our help page on userspace drafts for more details. If the page you created has already been deleted from Wikipedia, but you want to save the content from it to use for that draft, don't hesitate to ask anyone from this list and they will copy it to your user page.

One rule we do have in connection with conflicts of interest is that accounts used by more than one person will unfortunately be blocked from editing. Wikipedia generally does not allow editors to have usernames which imply that the account belongs to a company or corporation. If you have a username like this, you should request a change of username or create a new account. (A name that identifies the user as an individual within a given organization may be OK.)

In addition, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID).

If only I would have seen these links last week, especially the tutorial.Wmshultz (talk) 13:55, 28 October 2016 (UTC)

Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

• The plain and simple conflict of interest guide
• The five pillars of Wikipedia
• Contributing to Wikipedia
• Tutorial
• How to edit a page and How to develop articles
• How to create your first article (using the Article Wizard if you wish)
• Simplified Manual of Style

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on talk 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 on this page and then place {{Help me}} before the question. Again, welcome! CNMall41 (talk) 22:24, 27 October 2016 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Wmshultz. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places, or things you have written about in the article SimpliVity ‎, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic, and it is important when editing Wikipedia articles that such connections be completely transparent. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. In particular, we ask that you please:

• avoid editing or creating articles related to you and your family, friends, school, company, club, or organization, as well as any competing companies' projects or products;
• instead, you are encouraged to propose changes on the Talk pages of affected article(s) (see the {{request edit}} template);
• when discussing affected articles, disclose your COI (see WP:DISCLOSE);
• avoid linking to the Wikipedia article or to the website of your organization in other articles (see WP:SPAM);
• exercise great caution so that you do not violate Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID).

Please take a few moments to read and review Wikipedia's policies regarding conflicts of interest, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, sourcing and autobiographies. Thank you. Toddst1 (talk) 13:08, 28 October 2016 (UTC)

NOTES for how to use Wikipedia

Anyone else who wants to post ideas, help, thoughts please do = electronic notepad:

Duck Test https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:The_duck_test Looks like a duck, walks like a duck it is a duck. Editors can delete based upon their own opinion if they think someone is doing something wrong Insert a _____ in the content when ____

Sock Puppetry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sock_puppetry One editor, one account. Could mean that one person is using multiple accounts to post, talking differently on purpose to game the system Insert a ______ when

Can anyone make these accusations or only editors who have gone through ________ type of program.

Meatpuppery https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sock_puppetry#Meatpuppetry Similar to sock puppetry but this is many people accessing the article, all with a common goal. This is a good section - read below on how to prove you're not with a group. I'd think that pretty much every company page out there has this going on, unless you think Bill Gates is the only person doing Microsoft's wikipedia page for example.

Speedy Deletion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Criteria_for_speedy_deletion#G11

Wmshultz (talk) 13:53, 28 October 2016 (UTC)

Help for Maintenance Lots of links on here for using the templates https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal

Larger FONT and BOLD large fontBold text Big text

Neutral POV https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view