LindaLeGardeGrover

Welcome!

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

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited 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 our use and policy on paid editing.

Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

• The plain and simple conflict of interest guide
• The five pillars of Wikipedia
• Contributing to Wikipedia
• Tutorial
• 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! NotARabbit (talk) 05:38, 25 April 2018 (UTC)

Some of those links above are gold mines, others not so much. I saw that you’ve been struggling, though, and I’d like to suggest that you take your questions to the Teahouse. It’s specifically set up to help newcomers. And editing Wikipedia can seem like pushing rocks uphill without lots of help. I hope you accomplish what you need. Cheers! NotARabbit (talk) 05:45, 25 April 2018 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, LindaLeGardeGrover. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, 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. We ask that you:

• avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, company, organization or competitors;
• propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (see the {{request edit}} template);
• disclose your COI when discussing affected articles (see WP:DISCLOSE);
• avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see WP:SPAM);
• do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID).

Also please note that editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. NotARabbit (talk) 06:37, 6 May 2018 (UTC)

Your question about information on my page.

I have put nothing on my page that i can see would be a conflict of interest. Can you help me by simply remocing my Wiki page? If you are able to do that i will appreciate it very much. Thank you for your help. Linda LeGarde Grover LindaLeGardeGrover (talk) 13:42, 6 May 2018 (UTC)

Hi. I seem to have overreacted to your editing, and I apologize. Your edits have been small and clarifying, though you may need more reliable sources to verify some of the information. If you are asking to have the article about you removed (I’m not sure that’s what you want, because of a typo?), I’m not able to do that. You can ask the people at the Teahouse about it, and they can point you in the right direction.

But it might be best just to describe the changes you’d like to make to the article on its talk page, and have other editors actually make the edits. I suggest this because your last edit “broke” the syntax in the infobox on the article, which left a muddle of chaotic-looking text. Editing on Wikipedia can be tricky. It takes practice, and time, and a willingness to work on all kinds of subjects; I’m not sure that’s what you came here for, though of course I could be wrong.

Please do read through the links in my post above. And I found this information, which may also be helpful. NotARabbit (talk) 02:23, 9 May 2018 (UTC)