User talk:Robert Gladden

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

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited was Motorcycle Safety Foundation, 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.

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The plain and simple conflict of interest guide
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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! Dennis Bratland (talk) 03:48, 2 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

July 2014[edit]

Your addition to Motorcycle Safety Foundation has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted text, or images borrowed from other websites, or printed material without a verifiable license; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images—you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.

This is the second warning. The same person was warned less than 24 hours ago at User talk:199.3.20.236. Please do not copy-paste anything, even press releases that other media publish under Fair use. Press releases are still copyrighted, and Wikipedia has a Neutral point of view policy which says that promotional text is unacceptable. Please discuss at Talk:Motorcycle Safety Foundation. Dennis Bratland (talk) 03:54, 2 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Robert Gladden. You have new messages at Dennis Bratland's talk page.
You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

--Dennis Bratland (talk) 04:55, 2 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]