User talk:Necoates

If you have a close connection to some of the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, 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:

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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 businesses. For more details about what, exactly, constitutes a conflict of interest, please see our conflict of interest guidelines. Thank you. Copana2002 (talk) 16:40, 23 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I notice that several of your contributions bear an edit summary indicating that your contribution to an article was to add a production-design credit to the infobox on several films. You will find, if you revisit the articles, that the credit does not appear, because infoboxes are designed to include specific information that various users and editors have agreed is widely relevant and desirable for a certain type of article. (For instance, articles on high schools have infoboxes that generally provide a space for the school's address, phone number, motto, current principal, and so forth.) If, as a person interested in this aspect of articles on film, you believe that production design should always be one of the credit options in the infobox, the better approach in the long run would be to find your way around to where the infobox itself is discussed, then make your case on that discussion page. Otherwise, you'll find yourself making a lot of edits that go unseen because the infobox template ignores information that it isn't told to display.

As for the conflict-of-interest issue itself, there are various accepted ways to increase the likelihood that information will be corrected or added without doing the edit yourself. One way is to look and see whether any editors have worked on the page a lot, which indicates an interest, then go to that person's user talk page and suggest adding the information. You must make sure first, though, that there is a source other than yourself to which the general user could turn (see WP:V and WP:RS for details); while it may seem silly that you can't be a source for info about yourself, the idea is that people need some third-party source to which they could go. Even IMDb is considered a little iffy for this, as it is has wiki elements that allow misinformation to be introduced rather easily. If, OTOH, you had a clipping from a newspaper that doesn't appear in most databases — e.g., I'm not likely to find articles from some little paper in Cross Plains or Coleman, but they might have covered some Abilene production — then you could pass that along. Me, personally, I've got pages and pages of articles that reference you — as I have for many ACU grads whose articles I've edited — but that doesn't mean I've got everything useful ever printed. There are many, many ways to get info passed along to those who don't have a COI issue and can fix it for you. (Wil Wheaton has been known to put up a request on his blog when info in his article needed to be corrected, but not everyone has millions of readers. :) Lawikitejana (talk) 21:02, 5 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Picture

Hello! From your previous edits and username, it appears you are or have contact with Nelson Coates. I've been writing an article on The Last Song (film), and have a section about its sets. I would very much like to add a picture to the section, but cannot find any appropriately licensed, since we can only use images freely licensed. I was wondering if you have a picture of yourself (or if you are not Coates, then a picture of Nelson Coates) that you would be willing to upload to Wikipedia? A picture of you(/Coates) working on a set, especially one from The Last Song or The Stand, would be amazing, but any picture of yourself(/Coates) you are willing to upload would be great. We could use it on the Nelson Coates article, The Stand article, and any of your other projects along with The Last Song.

If you would prefer not to upload one, I understand. However, if you do have an image and you upload it, would you please contact me at my talk page? You can upload pictures here, or leave me a message and I will upload it for you. Thank you, Liquidluck (talk) 04:19, 27 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]