User talk:DAField
March 2014
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Hello, I'm Excirial. Wikipedia is written by people who have a wide diversity of opinions, but we try hard to make sure articles have a neutral point of view. Your recent edit to The Independent Games Developers Association seemed less than neutral to me, so I removed it for now. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. Excirial (Contact me,Contribs) 21:13, 4 March 2014 (UTC)
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page The Independent Games Developers Association has been reverted.
Your edit here to The Independent Games Developers Association was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove links which are discouraged per our external links guideline. The external link(s) you added or changed email address removed) is/are on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. If the external link you inserted or changed was to a media file (e.g. an image file) on an external server, then note that linking to such files may be subject to Wikipedia's copyright policy and therefore probably should not be linked to. Please consider using our upload facility to upload a suitable media file.
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Hi
[edit]Hi I have been editing the TIGA page - I work for TIGA, but can also assure you all the edits were entirely accurate, is is possible to revert? I am happy to collaborate on creating a more neutral tone, if genuinely needed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by DAField (talk • contribs) 21:17, 4 March 2014 (UTC)
- If you are an employee of the subject of TIGA, i would first point you to the Conflict of interest policy. Since the page is rather long i suppose i can summarize it as "If you have vested interest in an article that goes beyond providing encyclopedic content, it is strongly discouraged that you edit the article directly". Editors who have a conflict of interest often have difficulty writing neutral and unbiased text, and the edit you made is no example to this rule as it is clearly non neutral. I would note that the Wikipedia definition of "Neutral" tends to be several degrees of magnitude more stringent then most people would use while writing a text. Excirial (Contact me,Contribs) 18:53, 5 March 2014 (UTC)