User talk:Ripplewiki

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Thank you for signing up! --Matilda ^talk 05:08, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

WA Family First

If you have a close connection to some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article WA Family First , 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:

1. editing articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with;
2. participating in deletion discussions about articles related to your organization or its competitors;
3. linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam);

   and you must always:

4. 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. Based on your assertion on the article talk page that After speaking to those that attended the launch ... It indicates to me that you are closer to the party than the average editor. Please think carefully whether you should be editing the wikipedia page on the party. Regards Matilda ^talk 05:08, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

Hi Ripplewiki. I also wanted to explain to you the Wikipedia:Three-revert rule, otherwise known as the '3RR' rule. As a new user you may not be aware of it. It basically means you can't revert (to change the article back to a previous state) more than 3 times in a day. Anyone who breaches that may be blocked by administrators from editing for a period of time (usually 1 or 2 days for a first offence). Anyway, you have already reverted the WA Family First article 3x today. What that means is you can't revert it again within the next 24 hours or it could result in getting blocked from Wikipedia for a day or 2. You may have noticed that I also stopped reverting your reverts. However, you can keep discussing the content on the article talk page, as you have. The 3RR rule is something to keep in mind in the future when editing Wikipedia. Regards, --Lester 05:13, 25 June 2008 (UTC)