User talk:Richard Ebeling

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Real Name?

Hello - are you the Richard Ebeling? Per our username policy, if you are him could you please place a note indicating so on your userpage.

Please also carefully read our policy on autobiographies and conflicts of interest.

Lastly, may I suggest that consider verifying your identity to the Wikimedia foundation. You can do this by sending an e-mail to info-en@wikimedia.org and your identity will be confirmed by the volunteer response team.

Regards.  7  01:40, 22 November 2010 (UTC)

COI

Hello-I noticed the editing on your biography article, and just recently noticed references you've been adding in other articles. A lot of this looks like conflict of interest to me. A good practice is to suggest changes on the article talk pages if there might be a conflict of interest, and then let someone else add the material. Your biography article looks very over-linked to me right now. CRETOG8(t/c) 16:50, 29 July 2011 (UTC)

Hi, please see Wikipedia:COIN#Richard Ebeling where your edits are being discussed. Thanks SmartSE (talk) 09:04, 1 August 2011 (UTC)

Hello Richard Ebeling. If you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest or close connection to the subject.

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1. 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.
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Please familiarize yourself with relevant content policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, verifiability of information, and autobiographies.

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