User talk:Dora Dallwitz
Welcome![edit]
Hello, Dora Dallwitz, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.
I notice 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.
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November 2013[edit]
Hello, Dora Dallwitz. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but 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.
All editors are required to comply with Wikipedia's neutral point of view content policy. People who are very close to a subject often have a distorted view of it, which may cause them to inadvertently edit in ways that make the article either too flattering or too disparaging. People with a close connection to a subject are not absolutely prohibited from editing about that subject, but they need to be especially careful about ensuring their edits are verified by reliable sources and writing with as little bias as possible.
If you are very close to a subject, here are some ways you can reduce the risk of problems:
- Avoid or exercise great caution when editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with.
- Be cautious about deletion discussions. Everyone is welcome to provide information about independent sources in deletion discussions, but avoid advocating for deletion of articles about your competitors.
- Avoid linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam).
- Exercise great caution so that you do not accidentally breach Wikipedia's content policies.
Please familiarize yourself with relevant content policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, verifiability of information, and autobiographies.
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. You are simply re-inserting information about your user name and ignoring the message first posting. Expect to be blocked if you think you can simply re-insert. Next time you have to deal with 3RR. However if you had bothered, there could have been some creative work arounds of the issue, but simply re-inserting is not how wikipedia works.
For your information =
You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war. Users are expected to collaborate with others, to avoid editing disruptively, and to try to reach a consensus rather than repeatedly undoing other users' edits once it is known that there is a disagreement.
Please be particularly aware, Wikipedia's policy on edit warring states:
- Edit warring is disruptive regardless of how many reverts you have made; that is to say, editors are not automatically "entitled" to three reverts.
- Do not edit war even if you believe you are right.
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satusuro 00:30, 6 November 2013 (UTC)
June 2020[edit]
This is your only warning; if you use Wikipedia for soapboxing, promotion or advertising again, as you did at Nullarbor Nymph, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. Flix11 (talk) 06:51, 30 June 2020 (UTC)
I am not sure what I did at this time to offend but I am apologetic. It has taken me until now to discover this feedback, over 12 months later. I have since learned a lot about self editing and hope recent changes have been done with integrity and in keeping with the spirit of truth and not self promotion. Dora Dallwitz (talk) 00:46, 29 August 2021 (UTC)
Autobiographical information[edit]
I have been reading with much interest information about protocols and procedures relating to adding information to Wikipedia about oneself, or correcting information about oneself on a page. I can really see where these rules have come from and it has taken me a long time to find this information out when trying to edit. Only years later have I discovered the messages link with feedback about why an edit might not have been accepted. However, it seems to me that there are situations when this type of editing is very justifiable as sometimes information is not known to the world at large and the person in question would be the best source of correct information. I guess integrity is the key thing here. Dora Dallwitz (talk) 00:41, 29 August 2021 (UTC)