Gary Kristensen MBE

January 2023

Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to make changes to the encyclopedia. However, please do not add promotional material to articles or other Wikipedia pages, as you did to Charlie Kristensen. Advertising and using Wikipedia to promote a product or point of view is discouraged. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you. Please review WP:COI regarding Conflicts of Interest concerns. Operator873 ^connect 01:33, 30 January 2023 (UTC)

Hi there. I am new to editing/ creating information on Wiki, so if you would kindly give me a few pointers on what you believe to be COI, then I will happily review and amend appropriately. The main reason for my edit was to list facts about Charlie and because, currently, the information articulated on the (now) published version is factually incorrect, for example - place of birth Berkshire, when Charlie was born in Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia. I noted a comment about the edit being 'spammy' and I'd be happy to remediate that with guidance, as that was never my intent. Please assist, with thanks, and very best and most sincerest respect. Gary Kristensen MBE Gary Kristensen MBE (talk) 02:13, 30 January 2023 (UTC)

February 2023

Hello, Gary Kristensen MBE. We welcome your changes to Wikipedia, but if you are closely associated with some of the people, places or things that you have written about on Wikipedia, you may need to read our advice on conflicts of interest.

All users need to follow Wikipedia's neutral point of view rules for content. People with a close connection to a subject often have a strong opinion about it. This may cause them to change the article in ways that make it either too flattering or too critical. They will most often not be aware they are doing it. Everybody is allowed to write about whatever subjects they want to, but they need to be very careful about making sure their changes are supported by reliable sources and writing with as little bias as possible.

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Please make yourself familiar with Wikipedia's rules and guidelines on content — especially those about neutral point of view, giving sources, and autobiographies. Thank you. Operator873 ^connect 20:10, 3 February 2023 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to make helpful changes to Wikipedia. However, some of your changes did not seem to be helpful and have been reverted or removed. If you want to try out changing Wikipedia to learn more about how it works, please use the sandbox. Thank you. Do not remove deletion tags from the article you wrote about yourself... which is already strongly discouraged. Operator873 ^connect 20:11, 3 February 2023 (UTC)