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Welcome!

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

I noticed that one of the first articles you created was Alastair Driver, which appears to be an article about yourself. This is a common mistake made by new Wikipedians—as this is an encyclopedia, we wouldn't expect to have an article about every contributor. Your user page, however, is a great place to write about yourself, making sure to stay within user page guidelines. Just click your user name at the top of the screen when you are logged in, and edit it normally.

The page you created about yourself may well be deleted from the encyclopedia. If it is deleted and you wish to retrieve its contents, don't hesitate to ask anyone from this list and they will copy it to your user page.

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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! ɯɐɔ 💬 23:46, 30 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Alidriver, you are invited to the Teahouse!

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Hi Alidriver! Thanks for contributing to Wikipedia.
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January 2017

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Information icon Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. We welcome and appreciate your contributions, but it appears you have written or added to an article about yourself, at Alastair Driver. Creating an autobiography is strongly discouraged – see our guideline on writing autobiographies. If you create such an article, it may be deleted. If what you have done in life is genuinely notable and can be verified according to our policy for articles about living people, someone else will probably create an article about you sooner or later (see Wikipedians with articles). If you wish to add to an existing article about yourself, please propose the changes on its talk page. Please understand that this is an encyclopedia and not a personal web space or social networking site. If your article has already been deleted, please see: Why was my page deleted?, and if you feel the deletion was an error, please discuss it with the deleting administrator. Hi! I have a feeling that you may have a conflict of interest with the article you've been editing lately; I'm not sure there's an issue with notability, per se, just that you probably shouldn't be writing an article about yourself. I'll give you more information in the section down below. Cheers! ɯɐɔ 💬 23:45, 30 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Managing a conflict of interest

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Information icon Hello, Alidriver. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Ali's Pond Local Nature Reserve, 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:

In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Paul W (talk) 11:01, 31 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]