User talk:Mnellsmith

Welcome![edit]

Hello, Mnellsmith, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:

Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{help me}} before the question. Again, welcome! Fiddle Faddle 15:52, 20 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. For more details about what, exactly, constitutes a conflict of interest, please see our conflict of interest guidelines. Thank you. -- Rbellin|Talk 23:41, 11 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

December 2013[edit]

I see that, despite your evident conflict of interest, you have re-added content to an article about yourself, despite the fact that there is unanimous consensus among three administrators is that it is unsuitable for inclusion in a Wikipedia article. It is difficult to see the content as serving any purpose other than promotion of your work. If you really believe that there is good reason why it should be included, please exp[lain why on the article's talk p[age, and request that an independent editor review it, rather than adding it yourself. Wikipedia's conflict of interest guideline says "You should not create or edit articles about yourself". JamesBWatson (talk) 15:37, 20 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

While I was writing that message, another editor reverted your edit, showing even more clearly the consensus against it. JamesBWatson (talk)

Can we stand back a moment, please[edit]

You are obviously fed up with what you regard as high handed treatment. WIkipedia is not a place that apologises or explains much, so let me try to break that 'tradition'. I've started a discussion at the article that appears to be about you, prompting the editors who reverted your work for comments. I suggest most strongly that you take a deep breath before considering joining in. This is not a battle you can ever win because you are that person (0.9 probability for both things).

Wikipedia is a truly odd place. Read WP:ACADEME to see how odd. Decent perspectives do prevail, but they are based upon consensus, something that is nothing even close to being like peer review. In order to have any of the items you placed in the article they need to be absolutely neutral and verified with what we call reliable sources. Having said that it is not at all unusual for a selected list of publications to be placed in a biographical article as a bibliography. Fiddle Faddle 15:58, 20 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

By the way, now you have a WIkipedia account, please take care to log in before you edit. There must be no hint of your commenting and editing as an IP address/anonymous user as well as through your own account, except in very special circumstances. I'm sure, if you have edited while logged out, that this is an accident, and you will be very careful from now on. Fiddle Faddle 16:10, 20 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]