User talk:Polticaltexan

August 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 Stephen Payne (lobbyist) 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: '\byoutube\.com' (link(s): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8I6dmfRmv0Q) . If the external link you inserted or changed was to a media file (e.g. an image or a sound or video file) on an external server, then note that linking to such files may be subject to Wikipedia's copyright policy and therefore probably should not be linked to. Please consider using our upload facility to upload a suitable media file. If the external link you inserted or changed was to a blog, forum, free web hosting service, or similar site, then please check the information on the external site thoroughly. Note that such sites should probably not be linked to if they contain information that is in violation of the creator's copyright (see Linking to copyrighted works), or they are not written by a recognised, reliable source. Linking to sites that you are involved with is also strongly discouraged (see conflict of interest).

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) 17:49, 29 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sources for Stephen Payne

You can clean up the sources yourself, if you want to - it's pretty easy. To learn in general about using sources on Wikipedia, look here. For examples of citation templates, look here. By using the templates, the references come out looking like Ref. 1 in the article, as opposed to just showing the URL, as in Ref. 2. Remember to use a <ref> tag right before a template, and a </ref> right after. If you are going to use a source more than once, give the source a name. For example, see how ref 6 for Alliance & Co. is used many times? There is a <ref name=all> before the template for the source. After that, instead of writing out the source over and over again, you can simply put <ref name=all/>, and it links it up with that same reference again (same thing for the Worldwide Strategic Partners source - the first is <ref name=wsp> with the citation, and after that just <ref name=wsp/>). Look at the two articles I mentioned above, and the examples of how this has already been done in the Payne article, and then you'll be able to clean up the refs yourself just fine. If you have any questions, just ask me. Otebig (talk) 19:21, 16 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

November 2008

If you have a close connection to some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Stephen Payne (lobbyist), 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. Themfromspace (talk) 23:16, 5 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]