User talk:Senatedon

Welcome! (Regarding Clinton County, Pennsylvania)

Welcome to Wikipedia! We appreciate your experimenting with the article Clinton County, Pennsylvania, but please use the sandbox for any tests you wish to do. If you want to learn more about contributing, take a look at the tutorial or the help pages. If you need help, check out where to ask a question, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome!. Ken123 (talk) 20:17, 12 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Work on Senator Corman

Hello. I noticed that you uploaded a photo of Jake Corman; this looks like an official photo. If it is an official photo and you work with Mr. Corman's office, could you please reference Template:Di-no permission, and follow the steps to establish permission to upload the photo (I note that Pennsylvania public images are not public domain unlike US government images). Otherwise, for the integrity of the encyclopedia and to avoid copyright issues, I will nominate it for deletion within a few weeks. Thank you. Magog the Ogre (talk) 03:10, 22 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Possible Conflict of Interest

Senatedon, I have noticed a few things things that have raised some concern about a possible Conflict of Interest that you might have. Specifically, your username contains the word "Senate," the majority of your edits focus on Jake Corman, and your edit summary "corrected resident municipality, data from votesmart is incorrect on this issue" all indicate that you might have some personal, political, or other financial connection with Jake Corman. Please read Wikipedia's guideline on this topic: Wikipedia:Conflict of interest. I reviewed the Jake Corman article, and everything seems kosher there, but please be aware of the guideline. --Blargh29 (talk) 04:55, 12 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Blargh29, I have no Conflict of Interest in editing the Jake Corman page, as I no longer work in the Pennsylvania State Senate. However, I can tell you with certainty that he lives in Benner Township, Centre County. Reference articles in the Centre Daily Times for corroboration. --Senatedon (talk) 05:07, 12 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I just wanted to make sure you were aware of that particular policy. If fact, it is nice to have an additional person working on these articles. About the residency thing, check out Wikipedia:Verifiability. In short, it states (counter-intuitively) that the standard for inclusion of information in articles isn't the truth, but rather whether that fact is "verifiable." Verifiability means that the fact has been published by a reliable source. In this situation, we were able to find a reliable source attesting to the fact that Corman lives in Benner Township. However, if there was no source saying that, we couldn't include it, no matter how true it was. It's an idiosyncratic way to make sure that Wikipedia doesn't become a place for original research. Let me know if you have any questions about this, I can help. By the way, if you want to contribute to other areas about Pennsylvania politics, we have an internal page that might help coordinate some efforts: Wikipedia:WikiProject Pennsylvania/Politics and Government. There are some useful sources and ideas there.--Blargh29 (talk) 06:01, 12 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]