User talk:Gareth Wardell

February 2017

Hello, Gareth Wardell. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places, or things you have written about in the article Barbara Rae, 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);
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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. City Of Silver 22:10, 27 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not add promotional material to Wikipedia, as you did to Barbara Rae. While objective prose about beliefs, organisations, people, products or services is acceptable, Wikipedia is not intended to be a vehicle for soapboxing, advertising or promotion. Thank you. City Of Silver 22:22, 27 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you use Wikipedia for soapboxing, promotion or advertising, as you did at Barbara Rae. City Of Silver 22:25, 27 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

CityOfSilver You might want to report this editor to WP:COIN, rather than WP:AIV. Boomer Vial^{Holla! We gonna ball!} 22:33, 27 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

This account has been blocked indefinitely from editing Wikipedia because the username, Gareth Wardell, matches the name of a well-known, living person.

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