User talk:Gymstyle

Copyright problems with Briley Casanova

Hello. Concerning your contribution, Briley Casanova, please note that Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted text or images obtained from other web sites or printed material, without the permission of the author(s). This article or image appears to be a direct copy from http://www.brileycasanova.com/about.htm. As a copyright violation, Briley Casanova appears to qualify for deletion under the speedy deletion criteria. Briley Casanova has been tagged for deletion, and may have been deleted by the time you see this message.

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Please note that even if the copyright issue were resolved, the promotional tone of a company or personal website is likely to be unsuitable for an encyclopedia article, which requires a neutral point of view; also that subjects for Wikipedia articles must be notable as explained at Notability (people) and WP:ATHLETE. JohnCD (talk) 20:34, 29 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

September 2009

If you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Briley Casanova, 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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Please familiarize yourself with relevant policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, verifiability of information, and autobiographies.

For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. For more details about what, exactly, constitutes a conflict of interest, please see our conflict of interest guidelines. Thank you. A More Perfect Onion (talk) 12:42, 30 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Unreferenced BLPs

Hello Gymstyle! Thank you for your contributions. I am a bot alerting you that 1 of the articles that you created is tagged as an Unreferenced Biography of a Living Person. The biographies of living persons policy requires that all personal or potentially controversial information be sourced. In addition, to ensure verifiability, all biographies should be based on reliable sources. If you were to bring this article up to standards, it would greatly help us with the current 5 article backlog. Once the article is adequately referenced, please remove the {{unreferencedBLP}} tag. Here is the article:

Briley Casanova - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

Thanks!--DASHBot (talk) 06:15, 15 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]