User talk:Cgordonbell

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Welcome!

Hello, Cgordonbell, 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:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome!  andy 19:39, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Are you Gordon Bell?

I noticed you've been editing articles around the topic of Gordon Bell. Are you him? If no, then you need to know that Wikipedia has policies against choosing a username that closely resembles the name of an actual person. And if you are Gordon Bell, why do you keep changing that Wikilink to a broken form?

Atlant 18:41, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

You've never answered the question. Wikipedia's username policy would discourage you from editing under this name unless you really are Gordon Bell.
Atlant 11:24, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

I am Gordon Bell and need to spend the hour or so reading how to do what I am apparently doing wrong. Will try to avoid doing anything more serious until I learn to drive a litle better. Would you mind correcting what I screwed up, tell me what I did wrong, and look at the pointer to the timeline I am building for the computer history museum that I pointed to on my site? Thanks, gbell at microsoft dot com.

If you are C. Gordon Bell, you're not doing anything wrong. We just have a policy (WP:U) that would prevent someone from choosing a username that appears to impersonate a real, well-known person.
Atlant 11:51, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Conflict of interest noticeboard

Professor Bell, I am contacting you because a website notice of your upcoming Macquarie University talk came to my attention.[1] After reading the phrase ...and even has his own page on Wikipedia! I read the history of your Wikipedia biography and noted this account had made various edits there, then saw the thread at this page where you confirm your identity.

In light of these findings I have filed a listing at Wikipedia's conflict of interest noticeboard. Site standards generally prefer that biography subjects post suggested changes to the article's talk page rather than to the article itself. It certainly has the appearance of impropriety that the university's announcement of your upcoming talk touts the existence of your biography here and your status as a professional academic scheduled to speak on public relations and marketing to a university audience is most troubling. As a Wikipedia administrator I wonder: are these deliberate tactics and do you intend to recommend them to your audience?

There appears to have been some serious misunderstanding and I hope to resolve it before your address. Feel free to contact me at my user talk page or via e-mail (which is linked from my user page at the toolbox on the left of your screen). DurovaCharge! 02:13, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

Dr. Bell, please have a look at WP:COI and then if you need any changes to your article, feel free to leave a message on the talk page, or on my user talk page. Jehochman ☎ / ✔ 18:17, 18 May 2007 (UTC)