User talk:XMLer
Welcome!
[edit]Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia from RichardWeiss! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:
- The five pillars of Wikipedia
- How to edit a page
- Help pages
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Here is a list of useful links that I have compiled:
- Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons
- Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not
- Wikipedia:Neutral point of view
- Wikipedia:Do not disrupt Wikipedia to illustrate a point
- Wikipedia:Attribution
- Wikipedia:Verifiability
- Wikipedia:Assume good faith
- Wikipedia:Civility
- Wikipedia:Words to avoid
- Wikipedia:Requests for oversight
- Wikipedia:Requests_for_page_protection
- Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment
- Special:Log/block
- Wikipedia:Requests for mediation
- Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard
- Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents
- Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/3RR
- Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion
- Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion
- Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser
- Wikipedia:Usernames for administrator attention
- Wikipedia:Avoid the word "vandal"
- Wikipedia:No legal threats
- Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal
Again, welcome SqueakBox 17:43, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
Managing a conflict of interest
[edit] Hello, XMLer. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:
- avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization, clients, or competitors;
- propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the {{edit COI}} template);
- disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see Wikipedia:Conflict of interest § How to disclose a COI);
- avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam § External link spamming);
- do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.
In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure.
Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. MrOllie (talk) 18:14, 13 December 2023 (UTC)