User talk:Grahamrhind

A belated welcome!

Here's wishing you a belated welcome to Wikipedia, Grahamrhind. I see that you've already been around a while and wanted to thank you for your contributions. Though you seem to have been successful in finding your way around, you may benefit from following some of the links below, which help editors get the most out of Wikipedia:

Also, when you post on talk pages you should sign your name using four tildes (~~~~); that should automatically produce your username and the date after your post.

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! If you have any questions, feel free to leave me a message on my talk page, consult Wikipedia:Questions, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there.

Again, welcome! ww2censor (talk) 14:06, 6 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Grahamrhind. 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, and it is important when editing Wikipedia articles that such connections be completely transparent. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. In particular, we ask that you please:

avoid editing or creating articles related to you and your family, friends, school, company, club, or organization, as well as any competing companies' projects or products;
instead, you are encouraged to propose changes on the Talk pages of affected article(s) (see the {{request edit}} template);
when discussing affected articles, disclose your COI (see WP:DISCLOSE);
avoid linking to the Wikipedia article or to the website of your organization in other articles (see WP:SPAM);
exercise great caution so that you do not violate 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).

Please take a few moments to read and review Wikipedia's policies regarding conflicts of interest, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, sourcing and autobiographies. Thank you. MrOllie (talk) 21:30, 14 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Grahamrhind (talk)

Like many topic experts, I no longer contribute to Wikipedia, due to a strange set of rules that encourage incorrect information to be retained within articles.

Wikipedia strongly discourages information coming from original research. Experts are not allowed to add information without attribution but may also not show any attribution from their own work. These rules are policed by sets of anonymous jobsworths, hiding behind nicknames and with no expertise of their own in the topics in question. These rules mean that any user may add any (incorrect) information from any outlying and suspect webpage and for that data to be retained on a page, whilst heavily research and accurate data is removed.

Not only are many topics very inaccurate and very out of date, many also differ markedly (and sometimes diametrically) from the same topic pages in other languages. This never seems to get addressed.

So, regretfully, whilst these strange rules which prevent accurate topic data are retained, my contributions are frozen.