User talk:Jvsheeran

Welcome to Wikipedia. It might not have been your intention, but your recent contribution removed content from NeuStar. Please be careful when editing pages and do not remove content from Wikipedia without a good reason, which should be specified in the edit summary. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. If you would like to experiment again, please use the sandbox. Thank you. Corvus cornix 18:09, 24 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not delete content from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to NeuStar. Your edits do not appear to be constructive and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use Wikipedia:Sandbox for test edits. Thank you. Corvus cornix 18:13, 24 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop. If you continue to blank out (or delete portions of) page content, templates or other materials from Wikipedia, as you did to NeuStar, you will be blocked from editing. Corvus cornix 18:33, 24 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Neither you, nor your corporation, owns the article about it on Wikipedia. Your corporate boilerplate has nothing to do with a Wikipedia article. Please se WP:COI and WP:OWN. If you believe that there is information in the article which is incorrect, you can click on the "Discussion" link at the top of the article's page and discuss on that page which items are not correct. But don't delete valid information just because it doesn't meet your corporate preferences. Corvus cornix 20:52, 24 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Conflict of interest warning[edit]

If you have a close connection to some of the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, edits where there is a conflict of interest, or where such a conflict might reasonably be inferred from the tone of the edit and the proximity of the editor to the subject, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:

editing articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with,
participating in deletion discussions about articles related to your organization or its competitors,
linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam);
and you must always:
avoid breaching relevant policies and guidelines, especially neutral point of view, verifiability, and autobiography.

For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have conflict of interest, please see Wikipedia:Business' FAQ. For more details about what constitutes a conflict of interest, please see Wikipedia:Conflict of Interest. Thank you. - Jehochman ^Talk 16:41, 25 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome wagon[edit]

Allrighty, here's the helpful page that some more experienced editor put on my talk page back in November when I was poking around and didn't much understand what was going on. It's a bit big, but can be useful

Welcome to Wikipedia!!![edit]

Hello Jvsheeran! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. If you decide that you need help, check out Wikipedia:Where to ask a question, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. Below are some recommended guidelines to facilitate your involvement. Happy Editing! Grand master ka

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Jim.henderson 00:30, 18 September 2007 (UTC) PS: Oh. I should have taken the other guy's signature off of it. Not a serious problem. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jim.henderson (talk • contribs) 00:31, 18 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

advance notice of pending edit to Neustar entry (April 2010); advice requested...[edit]

Hello Wikipedia staff:

This message is to inform you of an upcoming event that will necessitate the updating/editing of the Neustar page.

My company will soon file an updated 10-Q with the SEC; this filing will be publicly available on the SEC website at www.sec.gov. Later this month, I'd like to be able to replace the current entry about Neustar (which will then be outdated) with some of the new information from the 10-Q. On a related note, last summer Neustar changed the spelling of its name ("NeuStar" to "Neustar"), and I'd like to see that that change is made on our updated Wikipedia page as well.

Considering our company has an existing page listed under "NeuStar," would I need to create a new "Neustar" page (with the all-new 10-Q information) and simply link the old one to it using the MOVE feature?

Let me know. Thanks for your help in advance; I'm a very infrequent Wikipedia user, as this talk page will attest, and appreciate the assistance.

Jvsheeran (talk) 19:49, 15 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

All rightie; as I hinted in E-mail, such a notice in this forum will profit you little because the only people watching it are those who take an interest in you personally. Plans and questions about a particular article should be discussed in its Talk:NeuStar page. Also there ain't any Wikipedia staff for you to address, or rather there are about fifty of them and their duties are not editorial. That is, they don't monitor the three million articles, or the talk pages of those articles, nor those of the similarly numerous editors. That kind of thing is up to us, your fellow volunteer editors who are stumbling around in the dark, though some have been stumbling longer and more vigorously and better know our way around.

Oh, and this is the Wikiaccount you should be using. Don't use an account with a name similar to the company's. There's a rule, or at least a guideline, about that. Don't worry about mistakes in the past using this account; we've got a definite rule "Don't WP:BITE the newbies" and all is forgiven when you learn those particular ropes and no longer stumble over the same ones. Jim.henderson (talk) 14:06, 17 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Refreshing the EGPAF page (December 2010)[edit]

Hello. Let me start by disclosing that I am employed within the Communications department at the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, and am in the process of updating the Foundation’s Wikipedia entry for factual accuracy. (I have posted this content on the Foundation's Talk page as well.) Here are the specific edits I would like to make:

Slightly updating the short introductory paragraph about the Foundation to better reflect the current mission and vision
Reorganizing the Contents into the following categories: Elizabeth Glaser’s Story; Foundation Activities and Goals; Countries with Foundation-supported Programs; Statistics; and External Links (of course, I also will include references for all statistics)
Expanding Elizabeth Glaser’s story to include more detail about her status as an AIDS activist and her speaking engagement at the 1992 Democratic National Convention; to correct details about how she passed the virus on to her children; and to elaborate on the Glasers’ fight to have their daughter treated with AZT
Deleting extraneous details from Elizabeth Glaser’s story, such as Paul Michael Glaser’s role as Honorary Chairman of the Board; the mention of Dr. David Kessler as Board chair (this will be moved to the sidebar); her People Magazine cover story; the Beanie Baby named in her daughter Ariel’s honor in 2000; Paul Michael Glaser’s 2001 appearance before a U.S. Senate committee; and the Foundation’s mention on the television program The Apprentice
Moving the details about the Foundation’s programs from “Elizabeth Glaser’s Story” to their own separate section (“Foundation Activities and Goals”)
Adding detailed information about the Foundation’s specific activities (International Programs; Research; Public Policy and Global Advocacy) to the new section “Foundation Activities and Goals”
Deleting outdated mentions of past donors and dollar amounts (note: complete financial information is readily available in the Foundation’s annual reports from years past)
Updating the language in the bulleted list surrounding the Foundation’s goals
Listing out the 17 countries where the Foundation works (complete with links), deleting Russia and adding the United States
Deleting outdated mentions of grants, awards, and winners of same (note: updated lists of winners can be found on the Foundation website)
Updating the list of references and external links
Updating the Foundation logo in the sidebar
Deleting extraneous statistics and factoids from the sidebar, such as “origins” (inaccurate as written currently); “areas served” (addressed in body text); “focus” (“humanitarianism,” while true on some level, is not accurate from a business perspective); “mission” (addressed in body text); “method” (addressed in body text under “Foundation Activities and Goals”); “endowment” (neither calculated nor reported in Foundation financials)

I recognize that the edits I suggest above involve not only adding content, but modifying (and in some cases deleting) other content to best reflect the Foundation’s mission, vision and current standing. Be assured that all facts and statistics can be readily verified at FoundationCenter.org (at http://dynamodata.fdncenter.org/990s/990search/ffindershow.cgi?id=PEDI003), in the Foundation’s most recent Annual Report (at http://www.pedaids.org/About-Us/Annual-Reports-and-Brochures/EGPAF2009AR), and on the Foundation’s website (at http://www.pedaids.org); I will be using all of the above as references in the updated entry.

It is NOT my intention to run afoul of any “conflict of interest” rules Wikipedia may have. I merely seek to make the entry as factually accurate as possible. As I am a very infrequent WP user – and an even less frequent updater – any guidance you can provide as to how best to make these edits (all at once, gradually, etc.) for the benefit of your readers would be most helpful. Happy to post suggested new content here for community review if necessary. Thanks very much. Jvsheeran (talk) 18:19, 3 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

- Hello, I noticed your edits to the page. While I agree with most of your edits, the removal of sections related to the grants and previous grant awards winners seems excessive. The goal should not be to force everyone to go to the elizabeth glaser foundation website to read about the foundation. Wikipedia should act as a repository of knowledge. I can understand removing unsourced grant award winners, but you removed a properly cited reference. I am going to revert those changes to reintroduce those sections into the article. Thank you. will381796 (talk) 19:04, 29 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]