User:DotComCairney/archive/JohnCD

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Hello, DotComCairney/archive, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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Here's a different welcome message, with some more useful links, for your new address. Two more pieces of advice:

• Now you have two accounts. That's not a problem in itself, and there is no way to actually close down your old one, but you should take care not to use it, because using two accounts, for instance to back each other up in discussions, is called SOCKPUPPETRY, is strongly disapproved of, and can get you blocked. To avoid any possibility of that, I suggest that you (a) put on the user page of the old account something on the lines of "This account is no longer used: my new account is User:DotComCairney" and (b) then never use the old account again.

• Thank you, I shall go do this now. DotComCairney (talk) 14:24, 14 June 2009 (UTC)

• If you want to edit the article about your school, you need to be careful, because of the rules on conflict of interest. In this case, it's not as though you were trying to sell something, but the point is that, by Wikipedia's Verifiability policy, you mustn't put things in just because you know them, you must have a reliable source for what you say. There is good advice for this situation at User:Uncle G/On notability#Writing about subjects close to you and WP:Amnesia test. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 10:53, 14 June 2009 (UTC)

• I shall search for some reliable sources and change the page accordingly. Thanks for all the help you are giving me, it's much appreciated. DotComCairney (talk) 14:24, 14 June 2009 (UTC)

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