User talk:MaryRuddy
June 2010[edit]
Welcome to Wikipedia. If you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Higgins project, 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, 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;
- participating in deletion discussions about articles related to your organization or its competitors; and
- linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam).
Please familiarize yourself with 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 a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Thank you. -- Rrburke (talk) 15:43, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
Addition of external link to Higgins project[edit]
Hi. As I mentioned in the message above, editors with conflicts of interest are expected to avoid or exercise great care when editing articles to whose subject they have a close connection (with a strong preference falling on avoid). Of particular concern (and explicitly mentioned in the message above) is the addition external links to one's own projects (like this one), which may be construed as linkspamming, a violation of the Wikipedia content guidelines Wikipedia:Spam and Wikipedia:External links#Advertising and conflicts of interest, which recommends that "you should avoid linking to a site that you own, maintain, or represent." Please take a moment to review:
- Wikipedia:Conflict of interest
- Wikipedia:Spam, especially:
These documents may also be of assistance:
-- Rrburke (talk) 00:51, 4 June 2010 (UTC)