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Your submission at Articles for creation: Allen Shoup, Washington Wine (January 8)

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SwisterTwister talk 20:43, 8 January 2016 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Allen Shoup has been accepted

Allen Shoup, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.
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LaMona (talk) 16:38, 21 January 2016 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Bellevuewinegal. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the article Allen Shoup, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. In particular, please:

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Please familiarize yourself with relevant policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, sourcing and autobiographies. Thank you. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 21:27, 22 January 2016 (UTC)

Managing COI in Wikipedia

Bellevuewinegal would you please reply here, and let us know if you are in someway connected with Allen Shoup ‎or his businesses? You can reply here, just below this. Thanks! Jytdog (talk) 04:15, 2 March 2016 (UTC)

Hello, Thank you writing. I worked for Allen Shoup at Ste. Michelle years ago and have also worked for Long Shadows, however, I was not paid to create this post about Allen, though he is a friend. Instead, I am a Washington wine aficionado and have noticed that the WA wine industry is covered poorly on Wikipedia. I thought it would be a fun project to post some well-researched articles about people in our industry, and I started with Allen. It wasn’t until I went back to Wikipedia today to write my next article I found issues with my submission. The article about Allen is very heavily cited from credible, third-party sources, largely from within the wine industry. I am new to Wikipedia and want to clear Allen’s name. My intent was to inform others, not use Wikipedia for personal or financial gain. What do I need to do to get this citation cleaned up? It is unfair to Allen. His online reputation should not be sullied because of my mistake. (Bellevuewinegal (talk) 00:35, 7 June 2016 (UTC))BellevueWineGal