User talk:D ferrell

October 2016

Hello, I'm CAPTAIN RAJU. I wanted to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions to Jungwon-gu have been undone because they did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you think a mistake was made, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. CAPTAIN RAJU ^(✉) 21:46, 12 October 2016 (UTC)

D ferrell, you are invited to the Teahouse!

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Conflict of interest editing

Hello, D ferrell. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places, or things you have written about in the article Draft:Ravi Ramnarain, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic, and it is important when editing Wikipedia articles that such connections be completely transparent. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. In particular, we ask that you please:

• avoid editing or creating articles related to you and your family, friends, school, company, club, or organization, as well as any competing companies' projects or products;
• instead, you are encouraged to propose changes on the Talk pages of affected article(s) (see the {{request edit}} template);
• when discussing affected articles, disclose your COI (see WP:DISCLOSE);
• avoid linking to the Wikipedia article or to the website of your organization in other articles (see WP:SPAM);
• exercise great caution so that you do not violate Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID).

Please take a few moments to read and review Wikipedia's policies regarding conflicts of interest, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, sourcing and autobiographies. Thank you. -- Marchjuly (talk) 23:51, 30 December 2016 (UTC)

Hi D ferrell. I saw your posts Shilbrick's and ColinFine's user talk pages, so I thought I'd post the above links for reference. Since you have stated that you are personally connected to Ramnarain, you really shouldn't being trying to write about him on Wikipedia as explained in Wikipedia:Plain and simple conflict of interest guide. Wikipedia does not expressly prohibit COI editing, but it is something that is highly discouraged and tends to draw heavy scrutiny from other editors. Wikipedia articles are intended to really reflect only what independent reliable sources and be written in a neutral encyclopedic style. This can sometimes be difficult to do for editors who have strong personal/professional conenctions to the subject matter. A COI editor tends to want to include all of the "truths" they know about the subject in the article, whereas Wikipedia only wants those which are encyclopedically relevant and verifiable. Depending upon the type of COI, a COI editors tends to add content which slants the article one way or another, rather than taking a more balanced approach. COI editors may really feel they are being "balanced", but most aren't really able to do so. Another problem is that COI editors tend to be unaware Wikipedia's definition of notability, particularly when it comes to articles about people. Notable subjects for Wikipedia are ones which have received significant coverage in multiple independent reliable subjects. It is how these subjects are perceived in this reliable sources which makes them notable, not how they are perceived by themselves or by others connected to them.

COI editors also tend to misunderstand Wikipedia:Ownership of content and feel they or their subject have some final editorial control over the article in question. Articles are not owned by their cretors, their subjects, or any one editor in particular. Pretty much anyone anywhere in the world who can access the Internet can edit Wikipedia for better or worse. The Wikipedia community hopes these edits are for the better, but many times they are not. Articles about living persons tend to occassionally draw a lot of unwanted attention because living people tend to have supporters and detractors. That is why having an article written about you on Wikipedia is not necessarily a good thing and writing about someone you know may be not always be a good idea. There's no 100% sure way to prevent "embarrassing" content about a subject from appearing in a Wikipedia article about them if it is something that is verifiable and is not undue.

The above is just some general information that I thought you should be aware of. Drafts tend to be given a little more leeway by experienced editors wjen it comes to COI because it is assumed that anything promotional sounding or non-neutral can be cleaned up before the draft is added to the article mainspace. All bets are off, however, when something is added to the mainspace and corrections will be made as needed; this includes deleting articles about subjects when they cannot be fixed. So, if you feel that Ramnarian satisfies Wikipedia relevant notability guidelines and are able to show that reliable sources exist to show this, then please keep working on your draft and then submit it for review via Wikipedia:Articles for creation. Another option would be to gather up all your info and request that another editor write an article about him.

I apologize for the long post. If you have any questions, feel free to ask them here or at the Wikipedia Teahouse. Good luck to you. -- Marchjuly (talk) 00:30, 31 December 2016 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:Ravi Ramnarain

Hello, D ferrell. It has been over six months since you last edited your Articles for Creation draft article submission, "Ravi Ramnarain".

In accordance with our policy that Articles for Creation is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply and remove the {{db-afc}} or {{db-g13}} code.

If your submission has already been deleted by the time you get there, and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion by following the instructions at this link. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Legacypac (talk) 21:38, 14 June 2017 (UTC)