User talk:Skeahey

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Hello, Skeahey! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions to this free encyclopedia. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking

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August 2009

Welcome to Wikipedia. The recent edit you made to the page Eric McCain has been reverted, as it appears to be unconstructive. Use the sandbox for testing; if you believe the edit was constructive, please ensure that you provide an informative edit summary. You may also wish to read the introduction to editing. Thank you. SKATER ^Speak. 21:58, 26 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Please refrain from making test edits in Wikipedia pages, such as those you made to Eric McCain, even if you intend to fix them later. Such edits appear to be vandalism and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment again, please use the sandbox. Thank you.--Giants27 (c|s) 22:17, 26 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not vandalize pages, as you did with this edit to Eric McCain. If you continue to do so, you will be blocked from editing. Chevy Impala 2009 22:21, 26 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia! I noticed that you recently added commentary to an article, Eric McCain. While Wikipedia welcomes editors' opinions on an article and how it could be changed, these comments are more appropriate for the article's accompanying talk page. If you post your comments there, other editors working on the same article will notice and respond to them and your comments will not disrupt the flow of the article. However, keep in mind that even on the talk page of an article, you should limit your discussion to improving the article. Article talk pages are not the place to discuss opinions of the subject of articles nor are such pages a forum. Thank you. Ronhjones ^(Talk) 22:32, 26 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Disagree with these warnings

I believe these vandalism warnings are way too strong; particularly Impala2009's level3 vandalism warning. The user appeared to me to be trying to add something to the article about the subject's college career. It was not formatted correctly and I don't know how we could use it so I probably would have just removed it as well but I disagree with calling the attempts vandalism. This is pretty much a classic Wikipedia:Please do not bite the newcomers case. To Skeahey, welcome! Thanks for wanting to contribute. Read up on the links provided, see how other articles are made, and try out some edits in the WP:Sandbox and by previewing your changes. Thanks, DoubleBlue (talk) 23:24, 26 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Second that, I didn't see vandalism, thus I gave you a test warning instead of a vandalism since you were more in need of help than vandalizing. Maybe you want to check out WP:ADOPT?--Giants27 (c|s) 23:28, 26 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, adding content without citing a reliable source, as you did to Eric McCain, is not consistent with our policy of verifiability. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. If you are familiar with Wikipedia:Citing sources, please take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you.--Giants27 (c|s) 22:28, 27 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

File copyright problem with File:ERIC CATCH.jpg

File Copyright problem

Thank you for uploading File:ERIC CATCH.jpg. However, it currently is missing information on its copyright status. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously. It may be deleted soon, unless we can determine the license and the source of the file. If you know this information, then you can add a copyright tag to the image description page.

If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have specified their license and tagged them, too. You can find a list of files you have uploaded by following this link.

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them at the media copyright questions page. Thanks again for your cooperation. [midnight comet] [talk] 13:26, 1 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Since he is your friend, there is a conflict of interest problem here

If you have a close connection to some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Eric McCain, 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; and
linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam).

Please familiarize yourself with 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 organizations. For more details about what, exactly, constitutes a conflict of interest, please see our conflict of interest guidelines. Thank you. --Orange Mike | Talk 23:47, 3 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]