User talk:Watsonchris01
March 2013
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Hello, I'm Srich32977. I wanted to let you know that I undid one or more of your recent contributions to Legal advice because it appeared to be promotional. Advertising and using Wikipedia as a "soapbox" are against Wikipedia policy and not permitted. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you. Chris, as you listed yourself as the author on the "about us" webpage for Transweb, I think you are part of the company. If this is the case, you should read Wikipedia policies about advertising and conflicts of interest. Please see WP:COI. – S. Rich (talk) 15:17, 25 March 2013 (UTC)
User: watsonchris01
[edit][The following was C&Pd from my talk page. And my reply follows. (S. Rich)] Dear Srich32977,
I know that I am new to Wikipedia but I know that one have to be neutral whenever one is sharing something which can help users.
Now coming on your changes rollback. First of all for the topic Legal Advice there are companies which are helping people for the Legal related problems for example:- avvo.com, rocketlawyer.com, legalzoom.com, lawguru.com, expertsland.com, pearl.com, justanswer.com.
Now if I have added an external link of any of these. This does't show that I am promoting any of these I am just informing users that these are the websites which can help them for any help related to Legal advice. Also, I have tried to use rel= nofollow tag in the external link but this is not supported by Wikipedia. Or is there any other way to write any external link ?
According to you I am part of Transweb but this is not the case in reality. As I have told you I am new to Wikipedia so I have seen people added their names in the References section of any page I thought this is way people done editing and add themselves in the references so I should also follow the same.
I know that you are quite familiar with Wikipedia and know things which I am learning now and will be learning for making Wikipedia better.
If you still think I am not a genuine user or promoting anyone then please delete me from Wikipedia. Because by being a new user and committing mistake is a crime which mistake is not known to user then I should be penalized/punished.
Thanks & Regards, Chris Watson — Preceding unsigned comment added by Watsonchris01 (talk • contribs) 06:29, 26 March 2013 (UTC)
- Chris, being a new user and making changes to articles is not a crime. Wikipedia cannot be broken. We are a community of editors who work voluntarily to improve the project. Moreover, you are not being penalized or punished. You should simply look at these different edits as steps towards improving the encyclopedia.
- Since you say you are not part of Transweb, I will assume good faith. Don't worry about that.
- Still, we do have all sorts of policies and guidelines. We may not use WP for advertising or promotion. WP is not a directory or a "how to" manual.
- While people do add names to the References sections, we do have policies to control excessive or improper additions. WP:SELFCITE is the guideline.
- Yes. There are different legal advice companies that have links on WP. Some of them are okay and some are improper. It just so happened that your addition to the legal advice article caught my eye. Your contributions to the Transweb article are probably okay. But adding the Transweb link in the middle of the legal advice article was not.
- Like I said, don't worry about these changes. WP:BB. If something is wrong, another editor will come along and fix the problem.
- Happy editing!
– S. Rich (talk) 13:43, 26 March 2013 (UTC)
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