User talk:Walkergreg

Welcome to Wikipedia: check out the Teahouse![edit]

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I, and the rest of the hosts, would be more than happy to answer any questions you have! Sarah (talk) 18:21, 22 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Michael Echanis[edit]

Mr Walker, Welcome to Wikipedia! Thanks for helping flesh out the Echanis piece. We may need to trim some of it down for encyclopedia summary style and we will definitely need more sources. I can help with the source formatting if you can provide the following for magazines: author, title, year, volume, issue, page, etc and the same for books to include the isbn. I learned a great deal from Michael's books when I was a budding martial artist, myself. The Al Mar Warrior is one of my favorite knives and I am planning a wiki article on that in the future. Feel free to hit me up if you need any help, tips or advice. You may want to join the Cutlery project on here. I have used your Battle Blades book and older FK articles on quite a few of the knife articles. Best regards--Mike - Μολὼν λαβέ 18:03, 22 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome![edit]

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

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited was Michael Echanis, 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.

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