User talk:Roywaters

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

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited 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 another 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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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! Alexbrn (talk) 09:02, 8 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

February 2016

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. You appear to be engaged in an edit war with one or more editors according to your reverts at Feldenkrais method. Although repeatedly reverting or undoing another editor's contributions may seem necessary to protect your preferred version of a page, on Wikipedia this is usually seen as obstructing the normal editing process, and often creates animosity between editors. Instead of edit warring, please discuss the situation with the editor(s) involved and try to reach a consensus on the talk page.

If editors continue to revert to their preferred version they are likely to lose editing privileges. This isn't done to punish an editor, but to prevent the disruption caused by edit warring. In particular, editors should be aware of the three-revert rule, which says that an editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Edit warring on Wikipedia is not acceptable in any amount, and violating the three-revert rule is very likely to lead to a loss of editing privileges. Thank you. Alexbrn (talk) 09:18, 8 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Conflict of interest

If- as seems very likely - you have a vested interest in the Feldenkreis method (e.g. as a practitioner) then you must declare it per our terms of use. There's more detail about our views on this at WP:COI. Guy (Help!) 00:27, 10 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. Are you referring to the talk page edit I made to the Moshe Feldenkrais article? Please let me know if there is another place to declare possible COI, because I mentioned in the actual edit to the talk page that I was trained in the Method and that some might view it as a conflict of interest. The suggested edit was to the biography of the man and not the Method... and it was a request for input from others. I did not go ahead and make the edit. Roywaters (talk) 01:18, 10 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]