Davesharma

Welcome!

Hello, Davesharma, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited was Dave Sharma, 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.

To reduce the chances of your contributions being undone, you might like to draft your revised article before submission, and then ask me or another editor to proofread it. See our help page on userspace drafts for more details. If the page you created has already been deleted from Wikipedia, but you want to save the content from it to use for that draft, don't hesitate to ask anyone from this list and they will copy it to your user page.

One rule we do have in connection with conflicts of interest is that accounts used by more than one person will unfortunately be blocked from editing. Wikipedia generally does not allow editors to have usernames which imply that the account belongs to a company or corporation. If you have a username like this, you should request a change of username or create a new account. (A name that identifies the user as an individual within a given organization may be OK.)

In addition, if you receive, or expect to receive, compensation for any contribution you make, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation to comply with our terms of use and our policy on paid editing.

Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

• Best practices for editors with close associations
• Plain and simple conflict of interest guide
• The five pillars of Wikipedia
• Contributing to Wikipedia
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• How to edit a page and How to develop articles
• How to create your first article (using the Article Wizard if you wish)
• Simplified Manual of Style

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{Help me}} before the question. Again, welcome! ᛗᛁᛟᛚᚾᛁᚱPants Tell me all about it. 13:59, 13 July 2021 (UTC)

• The bit above about the first article you edited is part of the boilerplate welcome template: I'm aware that (and appreciative of) the fact that you haven't edited the article directly. I used this template because it contains links to information about our conflict-of-interest policy. Generally speaking, so far, your participation looks pretty good. I've helped other individuals with WP articles about themselves get changes made, and your posts to WP:BLPN and at article talk are the best way for you to engage here. I'm going to watchlist the talk page and respond there, and we'll see what kinds of improvements we can make. ᛗᛁᛟᛚᚾᛁᚱPants Tell me all about it. 14:03, 13 July 2021 (UTC)

Uploading images to Wikipedia

As discussed at Talk:Dave Sharma, you or your office may wish to provide photos for use in the article Dave Sharma. To do so, please visit this link where you will be walked through the relatively simple process of uploading photos that you own:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Upload/Own_work

If you have any questions feel free to reach out at the WP:Help Desk. ––FORMALDUDE^(talk) 12:46, 20 July 2021 (UTC)

Identification

I noticed the report at Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard#Dave Sharma and your user page, User:Davesharma. Has anyone mentioned that an account which claims to be a particular person must identify themselves (privately) to prove that their claim is accurate? It's obvious that you are Dave Sharma but sooner or later someone more officious than me is going to require identification because we have to watch out for impersonation/trolling. The information is at WP:REALNAME—you pick a method such as using an official email account to contact the volunteer, or a tweet from a verified account. Then you email the address given at that link saying that User:Davesharma is you (and, for example, linking to the tweet if that method was used). Actually, you might not want to attract a bunch of attention with a tweet, so if I were you, I would try another method. Please reply here when you have sent an email. Don't spell out what you have done because there is no need to reveal that. However, a reply will tell anyone who comes here that the matter is in progress. Johnuniq (talk) 10:37, 21 July 2021 (UTC)