User talk:Rocordman

Welcome from Sphilbrick

Welcome, Rocordman! Welcome! Hello, Rocordman, and welcome to Wikipedia! I'm Sphilbrick, one of the thousands of editors here at Wikipedia. Here are a few good links for newcomers: Introduction The Five Pillars of Wikipedia How to edit a page Help How to write a great article Manual of Style Thank you for your contributions to wikipedia, it has helped make wikipedia a better encyclopedia. I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Where to ask a question, ask me on my talk page, or type {{helpme}} here on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome! SPhilbrickT 16:43, 7 March 2010 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Rocordman. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the page Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2019 September 27, 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, company, organization or competitors;
• propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the {{request edit}} 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 WP:Spam);
• 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. ToThAc (talk) 17:30, 27 September 2019 (UTC)

I saw the conflict of interest statement. I thought the conflict of interest only applied to a Roc Ordman wiki page about me, not my user page. Can I state the things that I wrote yesterday on my user page, as I have done? Rocordman (talk) 19:57, 27 September 2019 (UTC)

Also, I do not know how to respond to the message I received from ToThAc. I hope this gets to him. Rocordman (talk) 19:59, 27 September 2019 (UTC)

Yes, COI generally applies to articles, not necessarily user pages. You can definitely link to your profiles on websites you also collaborate in, as well as make one-off userpage updates (telling readers a little bit about yourself is fine as well); just don't advertise your services or make excessively unproductive userspace edits (as those are violations of Wikipedia's policy). ToThAc (talk) 20:25, 27 September 2019 (UTC)

PS: To message another user, add {{ping}} before your comment and put the user's name in the first parameter. EX: {{ping|ToThAc}} ToThAc (talk) 20:26, 27 September 2019 (UTC)

Yes, that worked. ToThAc (talk) 20:45, 27 September 2019 (UTC)

MfD nomination of User:Rocordman

User:Rocordman, a page which you created or substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; you may participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Rocordman and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of User:Rocordman during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. -- RoySmith (talk) 15:03, 28 September 2019 (UTC)