User talk:Images138

Hello, Arcaid. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you have an external relationship with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Richard Bryant (photographer), you may have a conflict of interest or close connection to the subject.

All editors are required to comply with Wikipedia's neutral point of view content policy. People who are very close to a subject often have a distorted view of it, which may cause them to inadvertently edit in ways that make the article either too flattering or too disparaging. People with a close connection to a subject are not absolutely prohibited from editing about that subject, but they need to be especially careful about ensuring their edits are verified by reliable sources and writing with as little bias as possible.

If you are very close to a subject, here are some ways you can reduce the risk of problems:

Avoid or exercise great caution when editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with.
Avoid linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam).
Exercise great caution so that you do not accidentally breach Wikipedia's content policies.

Please familiarize yourself with relevant content policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, verifiability of information, and autobiographies. Note that Wikipedia's terms of use require disclosure of your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation.

For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Thank you. Melcous (talk) 14:43, 30 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your username, "Arcaid", may not comply with our username policy. Please note that you may not use a username that represents the name of a company, group, organization, product, or website. Examples of usernames that are not allowed include "XYZ Company", "MyWidgetsUSA.com", and "Trammel Museum of Art". However, you are invited to use a username that contains such a name if it identifies you personally, such as "Mark at WidgetsUSA", "Jack Smith at the XY Foundation", and "WidgetFan87".

Please also note that Wikipedia does not allow accounts to be shared by multiple people, and that you may not advocate for or promote any company, group, organization, product, or website, regardless of your username. Moreover, I recommend that you read our conflict of interest guideline. If you are a single individual and are willing to contribute to Wikipedia in an unbiased manner, please create a new account or request a change of username, by completing this form, that complies with our username policy. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. Thank you. Melcous (talk) 01:43, 31 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Richard Bryant (photographer)

Please stop adding non-encyclopaedic content and formatting errors to this article. As you have a conflict of interest, you should engage in discussion on the article's talk page about changes you want to make, rather than simply adding content that does not meet wikipedia's guidelines on being neutral and reliably sourced. If possible, you should also familiarise yourself with wikipedia's required style and formatting. Thank you, Melcous (talk) 01:43, 31 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hello again. It does not seem that you have read the articles suggested. For example, you keep introducing references which include incorrectly placed punctuation and spacing. More importantly, you have included information from blogs and personal websites which are not considered reliable sources for the purposes of wikipedia. Also, please note that while changing your username was a good thing to do, this does not change the fact that you have a conflict of interest with this article and therefore should be extremely careful about editing it again. Wikipedia works by consensus and collaboration, so please try to listen to what other editors are saying, and engage in discussion here or on the article's talk page. If you continue to add the same content without engaging in discussion, you may find yourself in danger of being blocked from editing the article. Thank you, Melcous (talk) 14:46, 31 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

editing page

Hi Melcous,

I am struggling with creating this page please can you help me. What parts shall i edit to make it 'neutral'

Sorry about not replying to your comments as I have just learned how to use this

Regards,

A

Hi A, thanks for your message. Wikipedia works by consensus and collaboration, so one of the best things to do here is interact with other editors :) Another key principle is that all information should be verifiable by reference to reliable sources and presented in a neutral way. So some of the content you have added simply has no references, while a lot of it is sourced to self-published or primary sources which are not ideal. Please have a read through this page about reliable sources - in particular, the goal is to have secondary sources wherever possible. Some of the other information you have added could be consider non-encyclopaedic or trivial, for example, who the subject of the article has "admired." The issue with being neutral is also at least partly about perception - because your username is the same as one of the websites you have used as a source for the article, this implies that you may have a conflict of interest - meaning you have some kind of real world connection with the subject of the article. In this case, you need to be extra careful about what you add. Similarly, because this is the only article on wikipedia you have contributed to (note there is nothing wrong with this), but it can also give the impression to other editors that your goal here is to promote a particular person or point of view, which is not allowed. So if you can read through those articles I have linked to here, that should be a good start, and particularly keep in mind that all information you add to the article must be sourced and not contain your own opinion or point of view. If you do in fact have a conflict of interest, the best thing you can do is make suggestions for how to improve the article on the talk page and then allow other editors to edit the article rather than editing it yourself, so as to remove the perception of possible bias/promotion. I hope that helps. Feel free to ask more questions, or if you have particular suggestions for what you think should be included in the article (with references), let me know if I can try to help you enter it in a neutral and well-sourced way. Regards, Melcous (talk) 06:33, 8 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

help

Hi Melcous,

Thanks for replying. I've changed my username from Arcaid to Images138 - why does it still say I have and a conflict of interest? And can I not use the official Richard Bryant website for referencing as I've seen other pages (i.e Zaha Hadid) and they've used official websites as sources.

I don't understand what I particularly need to change. Please can you point out sentences - I'm really confused.

Regards, A