User talk:Jm7195a

Please critique my first wikipedia entry: "hope through health." I greatly appreciate your assistance in shaping my contributions to this community. HTHCSC (talk) 05:17, 14 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

January 2009

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia!

I hope not to seem unfriendly or make you feel unwelcome, but I noticed your username, and I am concerned that it might not meet Wikipedia's username policy for the following reason: it could be viewed as promotional. After you look over that policy, could we discuss that concern here?

I'd appreciate learning your own views, for instance your reasons for wanting this particular name, and what alternative username you might accept that avoids raising this concern.

You have several options freely available to you:

If you can relieve my concern through discussing it here, I can stop worrying about it.
If the two of us can't agree here, we can ask for help through Wikipedia's dispute resolution process, such as requesting comments from other Wikipedians. Wikipedia administrators usually abide by agreements reached through this process.
You can keep your contributions history under a new username. Visit Wikipedia:Changing username and follow the guidelines there.

Thank you. ukexpat (talk) 05:30, 14 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Response to Ukexpat

I see your concern - that the use of a username which mirrors an encyclopedic entry could be construed as biased. In creating a username as I have, I was hoping that other users who are, in fact, members of the organization but with a lesser skill in understanding nuances of Wikipedia, could easily have access and change content representing the organization.

I will assure you that even though I am affiliated with this organization, I do not want to contribute persuasive information in Wikipedia. I want to respect this community and am very willing to change my name and the content to reflect the goals of Wikipedia and it's established community.

If you have suggestions for specific changes in the article I am very open to them.

Couple of points: 1. You cannot share an account between multiple users, that is a violation of WP:NOSHARE - each editor must have their own account; 2. The intention to edit the article about your organization falls foul of WP:SPA, and is strongly discouraged. In the circumstances the best course is to abandon this user name and for you and your colleagues each to have your own individual accounts with names unconnected with your employer. – ukexpat (talk) 21:49, 15 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Update: I have changed my username. It may take some time for it to be reflected. I will not share this with other members of the organization, rather, I will guide them in the process of setting up their own Wikipedia accounts should they request assistance. Thank you for the links to the specific rules and regulations of community use. 147.9.209.228 (talk) 22:03, 15 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

No problem and thanks for your enthusiasm for contributing to Wikipedia. If you or your colleagues need assistance creating accounts, please let me know and I should be able to help. – ukexpat (talk) 22:36, 15 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for being supportive and opening the door to future discussions. Please note the username change. Jm7195a (talk) 23:38, 15 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome

Hello Jm7195a and welcome to Wikipedia! I am Ukexpat and I would like to thank you for your contributions.

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ukexpat (talk) 22:58, 15 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

February 2009

If you have a close connection to some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Hope Through Health, 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;
participating in deletion discussions about articles related to your organization or its competitors;
linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam); and,
avoid breaching 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 businesses. For more details about what, exactly, constitutes a conflict of interest, please see our conflict of interest guidelines. Thank you. --Orange Mike | Talk 14:47, 24 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not delete content or templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Hope Through Health, without giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your content removal does not appear constructive, and has been reverted. Please make use of the sandbox if you'd like to experiment with test edits. Thank you. --Orange Mike | Talk 14:48, 24 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of Hope Through Health

A proposed deletion template has been added to the article Hope Through Health, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process because of the following concern:

Notability not established by references (no "significant coverage" in "reliable sources"); also pretty spammy.

All contributions are appreciated, but this article may not satisfy Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and the deletion notice should explain why (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{dated prod}} notice, but please explain why you disagree with the proposed deletion in your edit summary or on its talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised because, even though removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, the article may still be deleted if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria or it can be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. ukexpat (talk) 15:40, 24 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]