User talk:Radiohead319

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GLOSS FM

Welcome to Wikipedia. If you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article GLOSS FM, 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, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:

1. editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with;
2. participating in deletion discussions about articles related to your organization or its competitors; and
3. 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 a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Thank you. Grafen (talk) 18:00, 7 November 2010 (UTC)

Please do not persist in replacing unimportant information on the GLOSS FM page, where you have a personal interest. That you have a Restricted Service Licence from Ofcom is important, as it distinguishes you from major radio stations. The fact that a radio station complies with the law and pays appropriate licence fees can be taken for granted. It is not mentioned in any other radio article that I have looked at.

I would strongly advise you not to reinstate this information for a third time. It would be seen as vandalism, it will be reverted, and it could well lead to you being blocked from editing.

In fact if you have read the conflict of interest guideline as I recommended earlier, you will realise that you should not continue to edit the GLOSS FM page, unless you put a note on its discussion page explaining that you understand the risks of editing when you have a personal interest, and providing reasons for you being treated as an exception.

There are always lots of other articles where your contribution would be welcomed. Grafen (talk) 00:24, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the message on my talk page. I appreciate that you find the conflict of interest guideline strange, but it is important that Wikipedia is written from an objective viewpoint. If you see things on the GLOSS FM page that you know to be wrong, then you can point them out on its discussion page, preferably providing references to reliable sources. But bear in mind that the test for information in Wikipedia is verifiability from reliable third-party sources, not truth.

In addition to the COI guideline, you might find this essay interesting.

The level of detail to include on any aspect of an article is a judgement call, but it will again be informed by the coverage of those aspects in reliable third-party sources. If no-one else has bothered to write about something, then it probably isn't that interesting, and we cannot include it. Wikipedia does not allow original research. Even when material is available, it may not always be appropriate to include it, and this will depend upon consensus among editors. In which consensus - in relation to the GLOSS FM page - you should have no voice, as you are too close to the subject.

Control on Wikipedia is mainly by consensus among us editors. Some users have more rights eg to delete pages. These are explained at WP:RIGHTS. The main category you will come across is administrators who are volunteers elected by the community. I am just an editor: I have no extra rights and no extra authority, and I am sorry if I am coming across as though I have some right to lay down the law.

Good luck with making sense of it all, and I do hope you stay and contribute to other pages.

Grafen (talk) 06:32, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

February 2011

Welcome to Wikipedia. It might not have been your intention, but your recent edit removed maintenance templates from GLOSS FM. When removing maintenance templates, please be sure to either resolve the problem that the template refers to, or give a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry, as your removal of this template has been reverted. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia, and if you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. Simple Bob ^{a.k.a. The Spaminator} (Talk) 22:41, 21 February 2011 (UTC)

Nomination of GLOSS FM for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article GLOSS FM is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/GLOSS FM until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion template from the top of the article. Bob Re-born (talk) 06:38, 17 November 2012 (UTC)