User talk:ArtrixChick

Welcome!

Hello, ArtrixChick, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.

I notice that one of the first articles you edited was Bromsgrove, 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.

To reduce the chances of your contributions being undone, you might like to draft your revised article before submission, and then ask me or any other editor to proofread it. See our help page on userspace drafts for more details. If the page you created has already been deleted from Wikipedia, but you want to save the content from it to use for that draft, don't hesitate to ask anyone from this list and they will copy it to your user page.

One firm rule we do have in connection with conflicts of interest is that accounts used by more than one person will unfortunately be blocked from editing. Wikipedia generally does not allow editors to have usernames which imply that the account belongs to a company or corporation. If you have a username like this, you should request a change of username or create a new account. (A name that identifies the user as an individual within a given organization may be OK.)

Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

• The plain and simple conflict of interest guide
• The five pillars of Wikipedia
• Tutorial
• How to edit a page and How to develop articles
• How to create your first article (using the Article Wizard if you wish)
• Simplified Manual of Style

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! Dawn Bard (talk) 18:29, 6 June 2013 (UTC)

Requesting name change

As you do not have much history and don't have a reputation you wish to retain, it might be better to "abandon" the name. If wish to abandon it, you could just log out and create a new account. To let others know, you can go to your User:ArtrixChick and User talk:ArtrixChick (this page) and point others to your new page, just put "abandoned" and sign with four tildes, or just leave it the way it is. If you wish to change your name see Wikipedia:Changing username. Welcome! Jim1138 (talk) 19:20, 6 June 2013 (UTC)

The reverted edits

Please excuse my following you here from Moonriddengirl’s Talk page, but I have a few observations about your contributions to Bromsgrove:

• The text of the reverted edits is still accessible in the page history, if you wish to copy it to your sandbox (once you have a user name that conforms to the policy linked in Dawn Bard’s message above) or onto your own computer.
• Placing external links or URLs in the body of an article, both of which appear in these edits, is frowned upon. Please see #2 at WP:ELPOINTS (and the rest of that page).
• I advise you to try and find some independent, reliable sources for the content; even if neutrally worded, an extended passage generally requires citation from published work not to be considered original research or unduly promotional—even a mention should have some such support, if not actually footnoted. Is there coverage in guidebooks, newspapers, arts magazines, academic journals or programmes, independent websites (social media & blogs don’t usually count), or the like that can document the statements?
• It may be helpful to start a discussion on the article’s Talk page to sound out other editors on how much coverage is due and to ensure the tone is suitable. Edits made based on such a consensus are the most likely to ‘stick’.

I hope you’re not put off by all these policies, but that you’ll understand their intent to improve the encyclopedia. Good luck, and happy editing!—Odysseus1479 07:35, 7 June 2013 (UTC)