User talk:RickSeymour

Hiya Rick

Liam here :) Hope all is well in Uni. I've got 500 leaflets for Tulketh coming, so should be on the stump next week. doktorb _words^deeds 16:02, 8 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

WP:COI concerns

Hi, I'm concerned about an possible inherent conflict of interest in your edits to Preston Council election 2007. Please feel free to address my concerns here, thanks. RJASE1 ^Talk 22:06, 8 April 2007 (UTC) All done! RickSeymour 13:54, 9 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'm the investigator for this request. As a candidate in that election it's better to post such things to the article talk page and request that uninvolved editors transfer information to the article itself. I don't know whether negative campaigning happens in your district, but there's a superficial appearance of impropriety that one's opponents could exploit. Durova^Charge! 04:42, 10 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

appearance of impropriety? Such as what? All I wanted to do was put an external link to my website where voters can see what their candidate is all about and the previous editor put in a wrong name for the Labour guy running The campaign is only in the early stages and there has been no negative campaigning to date that I am aware of. RickSeymour 07:24, 10 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

All I mean is that in certain kinds of dirty campaigns someone might try to run a headline of Candidate edits Wikipedia article about the election. Even if the edits themselves were neutral and factual a voter who doesn't read beyond the headline might construe that negatively. Some inappropriate political edits were news last year.[1] Durova^Charge! 15:11, 10 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]