Afaram

June 2010

Welcome to Wikipedia. We welcome and appreciate your contributions, including your edits to Newport Tower (Rhode Island), but we cannot accept original research. Original research also encompasses novel, unpublished syntheses of previously published material. Please be prepared to cite a reliable source for all of your information. Thank you. SarekOfVulcan (talk) 20:12, 3 June 2010 (UTC)

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The Wikipedia Tutorial is a good place to start learning about Wikipedia. If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump or ask me on my talk page. By the way, you can sign your name on Talk and discussion pages using four tildes, like this: ~~~~ (the software will replace them with your signature and the date). Again, welcome! Dougweller (talk) 22:09, 7 June 2010 (UTC)

February 2011

Please read WP:conflict of interest regarding your edit to Geoglyph. We are not here to promote our own work or websites. Vsmith (talk) 00:58, 26 February 2011 (UTC)

August 2011

Please do not add promotional material to Wikipedia, as you did to Kensington Runestone. While objective prose about beliefs, products or services is acceptable, Wikipedia is not intended to be a vehicle for soapboxing, advertising or promotion. Thank you. Dougweller (talk) 18:12, 29 August 2011 (UTC)

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to add soapboxing, promotional or advertising material to Wikipedia, as you did at Newport Tower, you may be blocked from editing. Dougweller (talk) 18:13, 29 August 2011 (UTC)

May 2012

You continue to add more or less the same material, apparently based on your research, to this article. Please read WP:VERIFY, WP:RS and WP:NOR. And any claim for proof would have to have extremely good sources - ie mainstream sources, see WP:REDFLAG. So, please stop adding this. Thanks. Dougweller (talk) 16:54, 24 May 2012 (UTC)

If my comments are out of line and unsubstantiated, then you have several paths to take to discuss them. One is the article's talk page. Another, if you disagree that they are original research, is to go to the original research noticeboard at WP:NORN. If you think your website meets our criteria for reliable sources, you can go to WP:RSN. Claiming proof clearly doesn't meet our criteria at WP:NPOV but we do have a notice board at WP:NPOVN.

What I did forget to warn you about is conflict of interest. I'm going to post the standard template below, but the point is that you should not add your own research to the article, but use the article's talk page to persuade other editors to do so.

Whatever you do, you are going to have to back up your edits with policy and guideline based arguments. The short time between my post and your email suggests you may not have read all the links I gave you - if you have, great, but if you haven't, I strongly suggest you do before going any further. Dougweller (talk) 17:25, 24 May 2012 (UTC)

Hello Afaram. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Kensington Runestone, 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. Dougweller (talk) 17:25, 24 May 2012 (UTC)