User talk:Bernietaylor

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Hello, Bernietaylor, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article. Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

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July 2014

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Your edits

Thank you for your efforts but, like many new editors, you are not aware of our policies and guidelines regarding sources. First of course you have a conflict of interest and need to read WP:COI. But more crucially, I'm afraid that your book doesn't meet our criteria for sources. If you read WP:VERIFY and WP:RS you will see that we rarely accept self-published material as sources. The articles you are interested in should use for the most part academic sources. There is also another issue which is relevant, and that is described in our Neutral Point of View policy at WP:UNDUE. The view you are presenting might be added to articles if two conditions are met - one, that the source meets our criteria, and secondly if the idea has been discussed in other reliable sources (in this case archaeological sources) enough to be 'significant'. So far as I have been able to tell that hasn't happened. So I and other editors have removed your edits and I've been asked to explain why. I realise that this is disappointing but it is simply the way we work. I've given you a lot of other links you might want to read if you still want to contribute in other ways. Dougweller (talk) 19:16, 14 July 2014 (UTC)

July 2014

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to add soapboxing, promotional or advertising material to Wikipedia, you may be blocked from editing. You are very clearly promoting your own work, once again I ask you to stop. Dougweller (talk) 20:52, 17 July 2014 (UTC)

Your editing history appears to be blatantly self-promotional, which is why I set up a case at the WikiProject Spam [1] If I am wrong, you are free to justify your edits there.--Mr Fink (talk) 22:30, 17 July 2014 (UTC)

My error. There was no spam intended. I am still trying to figure out the wikipedia rules. I thought that the initial COI was for potentially self-published books and those of a profit making venture. I later only cited articles that were peer reviewed or with academic publishers. All changes were relevant to the articles. Changes to articles that I updated with other people's work were kept and those with mine were not. I understand now that an independent person (not the author) must make a citation for an article or book. My apologies and I am still pulling my hair out over this. Bernie Taylor

Thanks. Much appreciated. Dougweller (talk) 10:33, 18 July 2014 (UTC)