User talk:O4M JohnR

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I notice that one of the first articles you edited was James-J Walsh, 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.

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Thanks for the heads-up guys... I'm John a social media Web guy from O4M. I've been asked to update our directors pages and /James-J Walsh/ & Benjamin Cohen as recommendation from the Home Office to help with background research for news reporters, reporting on O4M stories. This is the first time I have used Wikipedia.. Help with drafting would be great, if thats something you guys can do?

with regard to the username, sorry hadnt appreciated that you don't like generic ones, I would usually use a real name, but we've had some religious hate groups target us so we try to only use name of spokes people. How about a change to O4M_SMEditor?

I won't do any more edits til I hear back from you MrX,

Cheers

Out4Marriage (talk) 02:00, 20 January 2013 (UTC)

You should probably read Wikipedia's FAQ for organizations as a starting point. I'll leave this help request open so someone with a little more time can give you a more detailed answer. —Darkwind (talk) 03:51, 20 January 2013 (UTC)

This seems a little backwards. Wikipedia shouldn't "help with background research for news reporters"; Wikipedia content should itself be based on reliable sources that are independent of the subject - such as news reports. If we don't have such sources for some particular claim, it's often better to omit the claim outright than to resort to primary sources written by the article's subject. Basically, if no one but the subject has bothered to write about it, it's probably not that significant anyway.

Regarding the user name, I'd point you towards our username policy, especially the sections on promotional names and names implying shared use. "O4M_SMEditor" might be in something of a grey area; since you already stated that you're John, how about "O4M_SMJohn" or something like that? Anyway, the place to request a username change is Wikipedia:Changing username/Simple If you prefer "O4M_SMEditor", I'd try that and see what happens - at worst the request will be declined and you'll have to choose another name. Huon (talk) 04:10, 20 January 2013 (UTC)

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Nomination of James-J Walsh for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article James-J Walsh is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/James-J Walsh until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. J04n(talk page) 13:58, 21 March 2013 (UTC)