Ebford2

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I noticed that one of the first articles you edited was Edsel Ford II, which 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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Teahouse talkback: you've got messages!

Hello, Ebford2. Your question has been answered at the Teahouse Q&A board. Feel free to reply there!
Please note that all old questions are archived after 2-3 days of inactivity. Message added by SkyGazer 512 ^{Oh no, what did I do this time?} 19:09, 13 June 2018 (UTC). (You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{teahouse talkback}} template).

June 2018

Hello, I'm IronGargoyle. I noticed that in this edit to Edsel Ford II, you removed content without adequately explaining why. In the future, it would be helpful to others if you described your changes to Wikipedia with an edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry, the removed content has been restored. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. IronGargoyle (talk) 19:15, 13 June 2018 (UTC)

Hello. Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia.

When editing Wikipedia, there is a field labeled "Edit summary" below the main edit box. It looks like this:

Edit summary (Briefly describe your changes)

I noticed your recent edit to Edsel Ford II does not have an edit summary. Please be sure to provide a summary of every edit you make, even if you write only the briefest of summaries. The summaries are very helpful to people browsing an article's history.

Edit summary content is visible in:

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Please use the edit summary to explain your reasoning for the edit, or a summary of what the edit changes. You can give yourself a reminder to add an edit summary by setting Preferences → Editing → Prompt me when entering a blank edit summary. Thanks! Theroadislong (talk) 19:17, 13 June 2018 (UTC)

A summary of some important site policies and guidelines

• Noone owns any article here, or even their edits to articles. At the top of the edit page, it says "Work submitted to Wikipedia can be edited, used, and redistributed—by anyone," which means that if you don't want someone to change or even remove what you add, then you need to use another site. -- This also means that you do not own the article about you. It is not "your" article, it is our article about you.
• It is recommended that you do not add anything relating to yourself to article space, and it is expressly forbidden to use Wikipedia to promote anything about yourself. Personal websites are generally not allowed in external links.
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• Articles are to be written from a neutral point of view. Wikipedia is not concerned with facts or opinions, it just summarizes reliable sources. Real scholarship actually does not say what understanding of the world is "true," but only with what there is evidence for.

Ian.thomson (talk) 19:23, 13 June 2018 (UTC)

Two other useful ones

• If Wikipedia already has an article about you - recommendations on the proper way to propose changes to an article about you
• Problems in an article about you - recommendations on the proper way to deal with problems in an article about you

--Drm310 🍁 (talk) 20:06, 14 June 2018 (UTC)

Your thread has been archived

Hi Ebford2! You created a thread called Personal edits at Wikipedia:Teahouse, but it has been archived because there was no discussion for a few days. You can still find the archived discussion here. If you have any additional questions that weren't answered then, please create a new thread. Archival by Lowercase sigmabot III, notification delivery by Muninnbot, both automated accounts. You can opt out of future notifications by placing {{bots|deny=Muninnbot}} (ban this bot) or {{nobots}} (ban all bots) on your user talk page. Muninnbot (talk) 19:01, 17 June 2018 (UTC)