User talk:Rottenjen

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Hello and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate encyclopedic contributions, but some of your recent contributions seem to be advertising or for promotional purposes. Wikipedia does not allow advertising in articles. For more information on this, see

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I hope you enjoy editing Wikipedia! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. Feel free to write a note on the bottom of my talk page if you want to get in touch with me. Again, welcome! Ioeth _{(talk contribs friendly)} 14:08, 20 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Conflict of interest

You seem to be speaking for Rotten Tomatoes in your edits. This is highly problematic, due to our strict restrictions on edits by people with conflicts of interest. I will acknowledge, however, that you most recent edits were to suggest on a talk page that a Rotten link be added, rather than adding one yourself. Your username and COI together do, however, create a problem as far as credibility is concerned. --Orange Mike | Talk 14:08, 20 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

November 2008

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 appears that you are associated with and promoting Rotten Tomatoes. 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. Ioeth _{(talk contribs friendly)} 14:08, 20 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, and thanks for the exchange! I am new to using Wikipedia and wasn't aware of the COI or the points you made. I am an editor at Rotten Tomatoes, and was just trying to share some info that was unique to our site and that I didn't yet see up on Wiki. My apologies for any violations I committed; I will go over all of the policies you mentioned and get back to you here. Thanks very much for taking the time! Jen 20:20, 21 November 2008 (UTC)