User talk:Dearwhere
Welcome to Wikipedia!
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Welcome Dearwhere!I'm Ad Orientem, one of the other editors here, and I hope you decide to stay and help contribute to this amazing repository of knowledge.
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Sincerely, Ad Orientem (talk) (Leave me a message) 03:53, 20 August 2025 (UTC)
Ad Orientem (talk) 03:53, 20 August 2025 (UTC)
Managing a conflict of interest
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Hello, Dearwhere. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Steve Poleskie, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for article subjects for more information. We ask that you:
- avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization, clients, or competitors;
- propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the Edit Request Wizard), including links or details of reliable sources that support your suggestions;
- disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see Wikipedia:Conflict of interest § How to disclose a COI);
- avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam § External link spamming);
- do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.
In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure.
Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicizing, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Ad Orientem (talk) 03:54, 20 August 2025 (UTC)
- Connected contributor statement added to talk page. I am not being compensated for any Wikipedia activity. Dearwhere (talk) 19:21, 20 August 2025 (UTC)
AfC notification: Draft:Bud Hobbs has a new comment
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- Thanks! I've made a few enhancements. Dearwhere (talk) 13:03, 3 September 2025 (UTC)
Your submission at Articles for creation: Bud Hobbs has been accepted
[edit]Congratulations, and thank you for helping expand the scope of Wikipedia! We hope you will continue making quality contributions.
The article has been assessed as C-Class, which is recorded on its talk page. This is a great rating for a new article, and places it among the top 22% of accepted submissions — kudos to you! You may like to take a look at the grading scheme to see how you can improve the article.
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Thanks again, and happy editing!
WeirdNAnnoyed (talk) 22:20, 6 September 2025 (UTC)