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Hello, Carroll Gardens! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions to this free encyclopedia. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by using four tildes (~~~~) or by clicking   if shown; this will automatically produce your username and the date. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement. Happy editing! — SpikeToronto 22:08, 14 January 2011 (UTC)Reply
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Edit Summaries

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Hi there. When editing an article on Wikipedia there is a small field labeled "Edit summary" under the main edit-box. It looks like this:
 

The text written here will appear on the Recent changes page, in the page revision history, on the diff page, and in the watchlists of users who are watching that article. See m:Help:Edit summary for full information on this feature.

Filling in the edit summary field greatly helps your fellow contributors in understanding what you changed, so please always fill in the edit summary field. If you are adding a section, please do not just keep the previous section's header in the Edit summary field – please fill in your new section's name instead. Thank you. — SpikeToronto 22:08, 14 January 2011 (UTC)Reply

Conflict of interest

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  Welcome to Wikipedia. If you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Factory farming, you may have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, edits where there is a conflict of interest, or where such a conflict might reasonably be inferred, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:

  1. editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with;
  2. participating in deletion discussions about articles related to your organization or its competitors; and
  3. linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam).

Please familiarize yourself with relevant 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.

The conflict of interest concern is that, with your previous account, you inserted links to a webpage with which you are affiliated. You again inserted the same links with your new account. The change in account name does not obviate the need to adhere to Wikipedia’s conflict of interest guidelines. Please read the conflict of interest guideline carefully to ensure that your edits are in compliance with it.

Also, you may want to read Wikipedia:Reliable sources (shortcut → WP:RS) to ensure that the website you are citing satisfies Wikipedia’s reliable sources guideline. If you are unsure, you may enquire at Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard (shortcut → WP:RS). Thanks! — SpikeToronto 22:08, 14 January 2011 (UTC)Reply

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  Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to the encyclopedia, one or more of the external links you added to the page Factory farming do not comply with our guidelines for external links and have been removed. Wikipedia is not a collection of links; nor should it be used as a platform for advertising or promotion, and doing so is contrary to the goals of this project. Because Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, external links do not alter search engine rankings. If you feel the link should be added to the article, please discuss it on the article's talk page before reinserting it. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. — SpikeToronto 22:18, 14 January 2011 (UTC)Reply