User talk:EdWalker58

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[edit] Welcome

Hi EdWalker58, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thanks for joining the coolest online encyclopedia I know of. I hope you stick around. You'll probably find it easiest to start with a tutorial of how the wikipedia works, and you can test stuff for yourself in the sandbox. Check out the simplified ruleset. When you're contributing, you'll probably find the manual of style to be helpful, and you'll also want to remember a couple important guidelines.

  1. Write from a neutral point of view
  2. Be bold in editing pages
  3. Use wikiquette.

Those are probably the most important ones, and you can take a look at some others at the policies and guidelines page. You might also be interested in how to write a great article and possibly adding some images to your articles.

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Again, welcome! It's great to have you. Happy editing! Iswatch20 (talk) 09:20, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] February 2008

If you have a close connection to some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Ted Walker, 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. Thank you. JD554 (talk) 10:43, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

Hello. Please don't forget to provide an edit summary, which wasn't included with your recent edit to Ted Walker. Thank you. JD554 (talk) 11:09, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Ted Walker

Hi Ed, You asked "JD554 please let me know what precisely you want me to change."

I don't want you to change anything, I think you're doing admiral work on an important article. Regarding the notices above which I've added, the first one is because I've presumed (perhaps incorrectly) that you are a relative of Ted Walker's, which has the potential for unintentional bias to be added to the article - although it's important for me to add that I don't think you have done so yet, but please be careful. The second warning is just a reminder that when editing a page there is a box underneath the main window titled "Edit summary" if you type what you have changed in there it shows up on the history of the article and other editors don't necessarily have to compare the old and new versions to see what's changed.

Please keep up the excellent work. For more pointers about Wikipedia see the welcome message at the top of this page which has some very useful links for new editors.

Just got your e-mail ... will reply to hockey issue separately :-) --JD554 (talk) 11:39, 20 February 2008 (UTC)