User talk:Russellbesq

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, one or more of the external links you added to the page Non-compete clause do not comply with our guidelines for external links and have been removed. Wikipedia is not a collection of links; nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Since Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, external links do not alter search engine rankings. If you feel the link should be added to the article, please discuss it on the article's talk page before reinserting it. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. (See especially WP:EL#ADV) Han-Kwang (t) 22:05, 22 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

June 2010

Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Trade secret. Wikipedia is not a collection of links, nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate links include (but are not limited to) links to personal web sites, links to web sites with which you are affiliated, and links that attract visitors to a web site or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam guideline for further explanations. Because Wikipedia uses the nofollow attribute value, its external links are disregarded by most search engines. If you feel the link should be added to the article, please discuss it on the article's talk page rather than re-adding it. Thank you. --Edcolins (talk) 18:51, 25 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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No problem. Contributions are always welcomed, thanks (especially to articles such as Non-compete clause, which is in my opinion a very interesting topic). If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to post a message on my talk page. Cheers --Edcolins (talk) 18:58, 4 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello, Russellbesq. You have new messages at Usb10's talk page.
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Conflict of interest policy

Hello, Russellbesq. 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. 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:

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Hi Russellbesq. I ran across some of your edits recently and am extremely concerned that you are using Wikipedia for self-promotion. My initial thoughts are to start a discussion at WP:COIN. I haven't looked over your editing in much detail at this point, and I don't know if you are aware of the many changes in how editors with a conflict of interest are expected to manage that conflict. I thought it best to try to discuss the matter with you first. --Ronz (talk) 15:47, 18 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Ronz. I got your message and left a message for you on your talk page (as well as here, as I was not sure which you would see). I am confused about what you think I did. The only thing I can think of is that I provided links to some resources that happen to be located at my firm's website. However, those resources have been relied upon by the Obama Administration, The Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and many others. I did not cite to anything that is promotional. I have discussed this in the past with editors, and thought it was resolved. Please let me know. Thank you, and sorry that this is creating an issue. RB

I should add that the materials are all academic-type materials. (I actually use them in a class I teach on the subject.)