User talk:James H. Fetzer
Welcome to the Wikipedia![edit]
Hello, and Welcome to the Wikipedia, James H. Fetzer! Thanks for the contributions over on the Scholars for 9/11 Truth article. Here are a few perfunctory tips to hasten your acculturation into the Wikipedia experience:
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Best of luck, James H. Fetzer, and most importantly, have fun! Ombudsman 18:20, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
Your bio, etc.[edit]
Dr. Fetzer, might I ask you where I could find your c.v.? Your areas of interest and expertise interest me, and I thought I would take a look at your body of work if possible. Given that there are a few "red links" in Wikipedia that point to a non-existant article about you, I thought I might see about writing one. I would warn you, however, that autobiography is generally frowned upon on Wikipedia (see WP:AUTO). Regards, Dick Clark 18:26, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
- Of course. My curriculum vitae may be found at http://www.d.umn.edu/~jfetzer/ . I don't understand why my changes do not seem to be being retained. Each time I post them, they seem to disappear. What am I not understanding about this process? Can you help me?
- Often a submission will take a second to "settle in" and the change will not be instantly visible. Hitting the refresh button on your browser a time or two will likely reveal that the change was recorded. It may also be the case that your edits have been reverted by another editor. The way to tell what is going on is to view the article "history" which you can go to via a tab at the top of each article. There, you can see if your contribution has been reverted, changed, etc., and by whom. Just a couple of quick pointers as an aside: always sign your talk page comments with four tildes ("~~~~"); also, consider indenting your comments with one or more colon at the beginning of a text block. Using both of these conventions will help other editors to quickly distinguish your comments from those of others, and will aid in the collaborative process. Cheers, Dick Clark 19:07, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
- There are other editors revising your edits; we don't agree on all of them. See the talk page Talk:Scholars for 9/11 Truth --Mmx1 19:14, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
- Often a submission will take a second to "settle in" and the change will not be instantly visible. Hitting the refresh button on your browser a time or two will likely reveal that the change was recorded. It may also be the case that your edits have been reverted by another editor. The way to tell what is going on is to view the article "history" which you can go to via a tab at the top of each article. There, you can see if your contribution has been reverted, changed, etc., and by whom. Just a couple of quick pointers as an aside: always sign your talk page comments with four tildes ("~~~~"); also, consider indenting your comments with one or more colon at the beginning of a text block. Using both of these conventions will help other editors to quickly distinguish your comments from those of others, and will aid in the collaborative process. Cheers, Dick Clark 19:07, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
Wikipedia conflict of interest guidelines[edit]
If you have a close connection to some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article James H. Fetzer, 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 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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- avoid breaching relevant policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, verifiability of information, and autobiographies.
For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for businesses. For more details about what, exactly, constitutes a conflict of interest, please see our conflict of interest guidelines. Thank you. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 18:58, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
See Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest/Noticeboard#James_H._Fetzer. I still think reversion of your self-serving edits are appropriate, but I won't do it again for a while. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 07:52, 1 February 2009 (UTC)