User talk:Gordon Gilkey
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Hello, Gordon Gilkey, 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:
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before the question. Again, welcome! Katr67 (talk) 03:43, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
About COI
[edit] If you have a close connection to some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Gordon Gilkey, 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:
- editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with;
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For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for businesses. For more details about what, exactly, constitutes a conflict of interest, please see our conflict of interest guidelines. Thank you. Katr67 (talk) 03:43, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
Edit summaries
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Hi there. When editing an article on Wikipedia there is a small field labeled "Edit summary" under the main edit-box. It looks like this:
The text written here will appear on the Recent changes page, in the page revision history, on the diff page, and in the watchlists of users who are watching that article. See m:Help:Edit summary for full information on this feature.
Filling in the edit summary field greatly helps your fellow contributors in understanding what you changed, so please always fill in the edit summary field. If you are adding a section, please do not just keep the previous section's header in the Edit summary field – please fill in your new section's name instead. Thank you.
Katr67 (talk) 04:09, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
Please read the messages on this page
[edit] Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. In the future, it is recommended that you use the preview button before you save; this helps you find any errors you have made, and prevents clogging up recent changes and the page history. Thank you. Katr67 (talk) 18:19, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
Your request at editor assistance
[edit]Hi Gordon, I don't know if you saw the response to your message. It's been archived here: Wikipedia:Editor assistance/Requests/Archive 32#Gordon Gilkey. Cheers! Katr67 (talk) 17:08, 4 September 2008 (UTC)