Rickss03

December 2017

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. We welcome and appreciate your contributions, but it appears you have written or added to an article about yourself, at Rick Steeves. Creating an autobiography is strongly discouraged – see our guideline on writing autobiographies. If you create such an article, it may be deleted. If what you have done in life is genuinely notable and can be verified according to our policy for articles about living people, someone else will probably create an article about you sooner or later (see Wikipedians with articles). If you wish to add to an existing article about yourself, please propose the changes on its talk page. Please understand that this is an encyclopedia and not a personal web space or social networking site. If your article has already been deleted, please see: Why was my page deleted?, and if you feel the deletion was an error, please discuss it with the deleting administrator. Thank you. World's Lamest Critic (talk) 21:34, 6 December 2017 (UTC)

Apologies for not following the correct path. I noticed that the page for Rick Steeves automatically redirected to Rick Steves, and that's not correct. If it went to disambiguation or something, that would have made more sense. The solution appears to be updating the page so that it correctly reflected the subject of the search, while still noting that there was another alternative (Rick Steves). I didn't/don't know how to correct that within the Wikipedia environment in another way.Rickss03 (talk) 22:03, 6 December 2017 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Rickss03. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the article Coat of plates, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. Editing for the purpose of advertising or promotion is not permitted. 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. World's Lamest Critic (talk) 21:35, 6 December 2017 (UTC)

I have no particular interest in promoting the Coat of Plates article. I don't have anything to gain by adding the link. I wrote it almost 20 years ago. I only mention it now because I get emails about it on an infrequent basis from people trying to figure out how to build their own armor. The Coat of Plates is wildly used among reenactors for armor, because it's easy to make from tools around the house, instead of requiring an armory. If you don't feel it's appropriate that's fine. Rickss03 (talk) 21:45, 6 December 2017 (UTC)

The conflict of interest comes from promoting yourself and your site. Please read the guideline at WP:COI. Thanks. World's Lamest Critic (talk) 21:50, 6 December 2017 (UTC)