User talk:Lucspook

Welcome!

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

I notice that one of the first articles you edited was Badoo, 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 any other 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.

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• 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! —Unforgettableid (talk) 00:58, 2 October 2013 (UTC)

thanks for the guidance Unforgettableid (talk). I have read the article you mention. I am not conflicted, I chose the Badoo page to edit because I'd done research on it and have a lot to offer. I apreciate I may have been naieve in some of my edits and I am working to be a better wikipedian. So far though it has been a rather negative experience as a foray into becoming a wikipedian. I have made several attempts to engage positively and create a more balanced article. I appreciate your guidance and hope you will find my contributions improve and we can turn this page into a balanced article. Lucspook (talk) 13:48, 2 October 2013 (UTC)

August 2013

Hello, I'm SFK2. I wanted to let you know that I undid one or more of your recent contributions because it appeared to be promotional. Advertising and using Wikipedia as a "soapbox" are against Wikipedia policy and not permitted. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you. SFK2 (talk) 13:32, 5 August 2013 (UTC)

Hello, and thank you for the feedback. I made all edits in good faith to improve the Badoo page in line with all wikipedia's guidelines. I put the proposed changes on the talk page for over a week and there was only one piece of feedback. I'll happily take clear constructive feedback but broad accusations without clear explanations aren't very helpful.

There is nothing in the edits that I have made that are different than on other wikipedia pages and in fact I modeled this page on the Facebook page. Lucspook (talk) 15:23, 5 August 2013 (UTC)

Internal links on Badoo

Hello, Lucspook. Your recent edits to Badoo added internal links on common words such as "photos" and "games", including ambiguous words such as "register" and "profile". If you add a link, try to ensure that it goes to the page you intend, and not to a disambiguation page or a page with a similar name that does not treat the topic you have in mind. Try to add links that will inform encyclopedia users on relevant topics. When linking to pages that are relevant to the content of the page you are linking from, include only one such link, generally the first time the idea is mentioned. Please see Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Linking for guidelines on what to link to and what not to link to. Cnilep (talk) 01:18, 6 August 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the advice (talk) - i will bear this in mind in future.

Lucspook (talk) 10:42, 6 August 2013 (UTC)

October 2013

Please do not add promotional material to Wikipedia, as you did to Badoo. While objective prose about beliefs, products or services is acceptable, Wikipedia is not intended to be a vehicle for soapboxing, advertising or promotion. Thank you.

Diff here.

Cheers, —Unforgettableid (talk) 00:42, 2 October 2013 (UTC)