User talk:Seniorcraig
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[edit]Hello, Seniorcraig, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.
I noticed that one of the first articles you edited was Jennifer Craig, which appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article. Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.
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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{Help me}} before the question. Again, welcome! HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 22:26, 8 May 2018 (UTC)
- Just to clarify, the issue is that we have to be very careful to ensure that our articles follow a neutral point of view and cite proper reliable sources to support the content. This is as much to protect your privacy rights as anything, because as an encyclopedia that anybody can edit we don't actually have any mechanism to stop somebody from editing the article to spread lies about you if they wanted to — so we have to restrict what our article says about you to information that can be easily verified in already-published sources, so that we can actually sort out what's right and what's wrong if that ever happens. We definitely don't want to misrepresent you on here — but that's precisely why we can't publish insider information about you, even if you put it there yourself, if we can't independently verify it. Thanks. Bearcat (talk) 22:37, 8 May 2018 (UTC)