User talk:Iampariah

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[edit] Please stop using Wikipedia for promotion and spam

If you have a close connection to some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Pariah Burke, 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. Qworty (talk) 03:57, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

While I fully understand your caution and suspicion, it is not my intent to use Wikipedia for spam or self promotion. The original Pariah Burke article was created by a third party; I don't recall by whom and cannot access the history of the original article. I later edited it to correct some outdated and erroneous information. The other day I came to the entry to update its bibliography section to include my latest book only to find the entry deleted. I restored the article, using as a template and guide current Wikipedia entries for my peers David Blatner and Ted Alspach.

If you examine the article you should not that it is clearly not for the purposes of self-promotion. Were that the case the article would be much longer and would include promotional copy about and links to my various books, the six for-profit websites I produce and/or edit, the software products I have produced or in which I have an interest, the several businesses in which I have interests, and so forth. In fact, there isn't even a link to my main website, iampariah.com. I didn't include it or any of the other information simply because there was not, in my opinion, any informative value to including such in the article.

The information I did include is relevant to those who might like to find out more information about this particular American techonology author--just as readers might like to find out about any of the other authors listed under http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:American_technology_writers.

Pariah S. Burke (talk) 18:58, 5 June 2008 (UTC)