User talk:Eliassonwriter

Hello, Eliassonwriter and Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions to this free encyclopedia. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by using four tildes (~~~~) or by clicking if shown; this will automatically produce your username and the date. Also, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field with your edits. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement. Happy editing! Orange Mike | Talk 21:07, 25 August 2011 (UTC) Getting started A tutorial • Our five pillars • Getting mentored How to: Edit a page • Upload and use images • Create your first article Intuitive guide to Wikipedia • Article Creation Wizard Getting help Frequently asked questions • Tips Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention Help desk: A Wiki Styled page to ask questions on Help directory: A comprehensive list-style help contents page Policies and guidelines Neutral point of view • No original research Verifiability • Reliable sources • Citing sources What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons List of policies • Three-revert rule • Sock puppetry Copyrights • Policy for non-free content • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism • List of guidelines Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The community Build consensus • Resolve disputes Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • No legal threats Community portal • Village pump Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists Writing articles Be bold in editing • Develop an article The perfect article • Simplified manual of style Stubs • Categories • Disambiguation Peer review • Featured content Miscellaneous User pages • Talk pages Awards a registered contributor can achieve and award Clean up: General • Spam • Vandalism Join a WikiProject • Translation Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

Caution about conflict of interest

Hello Eliassonwriter. If you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest or close connection to the subject.

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For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Thank you. To supplement the language of the template, I must caution you that the skills most valued in a copywriter are those least useful in a Wikipedia editor. We abjure and reject all the arts of the advertiser: peacock words, gratuitous addition of links to your sites, violations of neutral point of view, spin-doctoring, SEO: all these are spurned, and many are deemed tantamount to vandalism. --Orange Mike | Talk 21:07, 25 August 2011 (UTC)

A single mass overhaul such as this is the worst possible way to change an article in your circumstances. Let's discuss the changes one by one on the talk page of the article, and implement them gradually. --Orange Mike | Talk 18:55, 13 September 2011 (UTC)

Orange Mike, I looked for the discussion tab on the Wisconsin Cheeseman site, and the only thing I could find was "Discussion." When I clicked on that tab, it only brought up information about The Wiki Project Wisconsin, and I could find no way to engage in a conversation about changes to the entry. This is why I gave a very detailed Edit Summary when I submitted the changes. Where do I find the talk page for the article? Thanks again for your help. :0) Eliassonwriter (talk) 21:30, 13 September 2011 (UTC)

Reasonable question! You were at the talk page for the article; all you had to do was click the little '+' or 'new section' tab at the top of the page, give it a useful title, and then start typing as you do here at this page. --Orange Mike | Talk 13:18, 14 September 2011 (UTC)