CBrigden
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editHello, CBrigden, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.
I noticed 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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Hi Huon ([[User talk:Huon|talk], I am very new to Wiki and having massive difficulty with: - Saving a draft - how do I do that? - Editing a page and; -successfully listing the paid contribution element.
I don't find the wiki page links helpful at all - is there anyway you can explain in laymens terms?
CBrigden (talk) 21:45, 10 October 2019 (UTC)
- Regarding saving a draft and editing in general, you may want to check out the WP:Tutorial or, for a more playful approach, WP:The Wikipedia Adventure. Those serve to give a general introduction to editing Wikipedia. For a new draft, WP:Your first article may also be worth a look. The tool of choice for creating new drafts is the Article Wizard.
- Regarding the paid contribution disclosure, Template:Paid has code that you can copy-paste to your user page and fill out. That's probably the easiest way to meet the disclosure requirements.
- I hope this helps. Huon (talk) 22:54, 10 October 2019 (UTC)
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{{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}. Huon (talk) 08:38, 11 October 2019 (UTC)