User talk:Michael Jerome Berk

Welcome![edit]

Hello, Michael Jerome Berk, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:

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Possible conflict of interest[edit]

Hello, Michael Jerome Berk. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Michael Berk, you may have a conflict of interest or close connection to the subject.

All editors are required to comply with Wikipedia's neutral point of view content policy. People who are very close to a subject often have a distorted view of it, which may cause them to inadvertently edit in ways that make the article either too flattering or too disparaging. People with a close connection to a subject are not absolutely prohibited from editing about that subject, but they need to be especially careful about ensuring their edits are verified by reliable sources and writing with as little bias as possible.

If you are very close to a subject, here are some ways you can reduce the risk of problems:

Avoid or exercise great caution when editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with.
Be cautious about deletion discussions. Everyone is welcome to provide information about independent sources in deletion discussions, but avoid advocating for deletion of articles about your competitors.
Avoid linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam).
Exercise great caution so that you do not accidentally breach Wikipedia's content policies.

Please familiarize yourself with relevant content 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. I'm sorry, but it's almost always going to be a really bad idea to edit an article about yourself. If there is information missing from the article, you could post details on the article talkpage along with references to reliable sources that discuss it. Someone will then almost certainly add it to the bio. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 17:10, 9 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Warning[edit]

If you try to force edits into an article where you have a conflict of interest, it won't work, and the only result of continued attempts to do this will be that your account will eventually be blocked from editing. Please take the advice that other editors have given you. Looie496 (talk) 17:14, 9 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Some advice[edit]

Please do not write or add to an article about yourself, as you apparently did at Michael Berk. Creating an autobiography is strongly discouraged – see our guideline on writing autobiographies. If you create such an article, it may be deleted. If what you have done in life is genuinely notable and can be verified according to our policy for articles about living people, someone else will probably create an article about you sooner or later (see Wikipedians with articles). If you wish to add to an existing article about yourself, please propose the changes on its talk page. Please understand that this is an encyclopedia and not a personal web space or social networking site. If your article has already been deleted, please see: Why was my page deleted?, and if you feel the deletion was an error, please discuss it with the deleting administrator. Thank you. --Orange Mike | Talk 19:31, 14 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Notice[edit]

Hi there. Please see User talk:Bayberk for an explanation of your block. Regards Basalisk ^{inspect damage}⁄_berate 14:28, 16 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]