User talk:Hudleyflipside

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Content

I moved that content you were working on to your personal sandbox: User:Hudleyflipside/sandbox. --evrik ^(talk) 15:57, 12 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Web archive

Someone loaded a number of issues here:

"Flipside" – via archive.org.

Maye you can get someone the to upload the rest? It makes a difference in the citations. Compare the two.

Hudley Flipside; Al Kowalewski (Summer 1986). "The Brigade". Flipside. No. 49. et al. pp. 20–22.
Helen (February 1983). "Flipside's List of Dead Cubs (Millions of Dead Clubs!)". Flipside. No. 37. p. 42.

--evrik ^(talk) 17:08, 12 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Citations

Flipside's importance will become more evident id you standardize the citations throughout wikipedia:

Hudley Flipside; Al Kowalewski (Summer 1986). "The Brigade". Flipside. No. 49. pp. 20–22.

Also, if someone goes through all the old issues, they can place the citations (hopefully with the links) in all the articles. --evrik ^(talk) 17:11, 12 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Hudleyflipside. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the page Flipside (fanzine), 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:

avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization or competitors;
propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the {{request edit}} template);
disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see Wikipedia:Conflict of interest#How to disclose a COI);
avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see WP:Spam);
do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

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. Just a note about our COI policies, based on your username. ZimZalaBim ^talk 19:16, 17 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

May 2020

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Flipside (fanzine); that means that you are repeatedly changing content back to how you think it should be, when you have seen that other editors disagree. Users are expected to collaborate with others, to avoid editing disruptively, and to try to reach a consensus, rather than repeatedly undoing other users' edits once it is known that there is a disagreement.

Points to note:

Edit warring is disruptive regardless of how many reverts you have made;
Do not edit war even if you believe you are right.

If you find yourself in an editing dispute, use the article's talk page to discuss controversial changes and work towards a version that represents consensus among editors. You can post a request for help at an appropriate noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, it may be appropriate to request temporary page protection. If you engage in an edit war, you may be blocked from editing. SuperMarioMan (Talk) 21:40, 17 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Telling the history that you know versus Wikipedia policy

Wikipedia has a hard policy of WP:No original research, which means you can't be adding things to Wikipedia that have not been published elsewhere.

People who are in a position to share their knowledge of events are not allowed to use Wikipedia as their platform. Rather, those folks such as yourself need to get their stories published elsewhere, which allows another editor to read it, come to Wikipedia, and summarize the new sources. Binksternet (talk) 04:40, 6 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]