User talk:MikeBlockQuickBooksCPA

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September 2008

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page QuickBooks has been reverted. Your edit here was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove unwanted links and spam from Wikipedia. The external link you added or changed is on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. The external links I reverted were matching the following regex rule(s): rule: '\btypepad\.com\b' (link(s): http://1234567890.typepad.com/quickbooks/2008/09/the-best-small-business-accounting-software-quickbooks.html) .

If you were trying to insert an external link that does comply with our policies and guidelines, then please accept my creator's apologies and feel free to undo the bot's revert. Please read Wikipedia's external links guideline for more information, and consult my list of frequently-reverted sites. For more information about me, see my FAQ page. Thanks! XLinkBot (talk) 20:00, 9 September 2008 (UTC)

Reply: I tried to reply by following your link. I am a Wikipedia novice, though I have long computer newsgroup and forum experience (8,000+ posts) and served as a newsgroup moderator). I have my own blog on the Intuit QuickBooks Community site (http://quickbooksgroup.com/webx/Blogs/Blog/), which relates to my being something os a QuickBooks insider. I trust that my earlier reply or this one are appropriate. I respectfully submit that my revised articles (without my typepad blog or other personal references) have only links needed for authority. MikeBlockQuickBooksCPA (talk) 21:40, 9 September 2008 (UTC)

You already address things here, but I'm going to paste a warning here:

If you have a close connection to some of the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, 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:

1. 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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4. 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.

In that you are discouraged to edit on articles you are involved in, but are invited to discuss edits on talkpages. --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 18:14, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

Grandpa Grandpa Grandpa

Quickbooks should pay you for all the advertising you do on this site. Bob

--MikeBlockQuickBooksCPA (talk) 10:11, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

Hi Bob / from one Grandpa to a second

I try to only write about what I know and I know a lot about Intuit and its people. I may be the one who most hurt them ($40 million) when they twice wrongly hurt users.[1] However, their CEO wrote, "Keep raising hell when Intuit does something wrong!"

They always have the most user directed and readily available top-management people I ever knew. Owning a copy of one of their programs and talking to their (regrettably) overseas support does not let you understand and appreciate this. Please try to read much of the Inside Intuit book ad you can. [2] You will quickly see it was one of their few mistakes.

Grandpa, Grandpa, Grandpa 2.0

So you're kinda like intuit's sheepdog; nipping at their heels if they stray too far. Bob