User talk:Pixelgirl

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Adoption request

Hello there, Pixelgirl! I'm Dylanfromthenorth and I have been around for quite some time now. I'm messaging you because I've noticed that you've indicated that you want to be adopted on your user page. I'd be happy to adopt you. If you need any advice, either on the adoption process itself or more generally about wikipedia, you can contact me on my talk page. Alternatively, you can click here to view the list of adopters. Happy editing :-) Dylanfromthenorth (talk) 09:39, 26 October 2010 (UTC)

adoption and COE note

Firstly, I want you to know I'm assuming you're Krystyn Heide, a Squarespace team member. A few things on that: (a) Be very careful about avoiding conflict of interest concerns; I'm certainly not assuming ANY malice or impropriety on your part, and I plan to keep an eye on the Squarespace article & will attest to vetting and corroborating anything that's done there (as I do with many articles on which I work). It's just something to be aware of, that others might not be so careful in assuming the intent of your edits. (b) I did remove you from "key people" in the Squarespace infobox because of concerns re: the previous, but also because of the honest rationale I made on the article's talk page: the other five members are specifically delineated by the "About" page, but to include your name and not the gentleman listed before you, nor the 26 proceeding you, would require explanation beyond the fact that you edit the article. Does that make sense?

As for "adopting" you, I'd be happy to rise to the challenge, if you're willing to accept this as my inaugural attempt to do so. It's up to you. FYI, I've edited Wikipedia since December 2004 and have accumulated 24,632 edits under my belt. I've never been blocked, and though I've helped with a few featured articles, I only have a few good articles on which I was the primary contributor. I tend to focus moreso on taking an poorly-sourced or un-sourced article and doing my very best to bring it up to code w/o any policy, guideline, or stylature violations. They may not wind up sufficiently comprehensive as required for GA/FA statuses, but they're 100% accurate and reliable to the best of my ability. Hopefully, they can be relied upon to be useful to readers and a credit to Wikipedia's reputation. My user page should be a good representation of my contributions and interests.

Either way, if you have any further questions or concerns, I'll be watching this page and will reply duly. If you have anything particular to the Squarespace article though, we should keep those discussions centralized there for the benefit of other editors. — pd_THOR ^{| =/\=} | 21:33, 27 October 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the follow up/clean up, and yes, that definitely makes sense. It certainly wasn't my intent to raise any eyebrows! After seeing the Orphan notice, I asked on the Talk page if adding more people to that area, and the references associated with them, would add credibility to the page. (Everything else I could think of had been covered!.) Now that I've walked through several tutorials and looked at other pages, I see how references are not related to Orphan notices. As I now understand it, it refers to other articles within Wikipedia linking to the article.

I'll just stay off that page, I see now it's clearly a conflict of interest.

I am still "up for adoption" and would be grateful to work with such an experienced mentor. Other than removing my adoption request from my User page, is there anything else we need to do?