Alkappone

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Conflict of interest editing in Wikipedia; username

Hi Alkappone. I work on conflict of interest issues here in Wikipedia, along with regular editing. Your edits to date are pretty much all about Alexander Kapp (dermatologist and allergist). Your username is similar to this person's name.

With respect to the WP:USERNAME policy, specifically WP:IMPERSONATE, would you please review that section and take one of the actions advised there? If you don't we may need to soft-block this account until the issue can be resolved. Thanks.

If you do happen to be the real world Alexander Kapp or working with or for or on behalf of him, I'm giving you notice of our Conflict of Interest guideline and Terms of Use, and will have some comments and requests for you below. This is a separate but possibly related issue to the one above.

Hello, Alkappone. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:

• avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, company, organization or competitors;
• propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (see the {{request edit}} template);
• disclose your COI when discussing affected articles (see WP:DISCLOSE);
• avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see WP:SPAM);
• do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID).

Also please note that editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you.

Comments and requests

Wikipedia is a widely-used reference work and managing conflict of interest is essential for ensuring the integrity of Wikipedia and retaining the public's trust in it. As in academia, COI is managed here in two steps - disclosure and a form of peer review. Please note that there is no bar to being part of the Wikipedia community if you want to be involved in articles where you have a conflict of interest; there are just some things we ask you to do (and if you are paid, some things you need to do).

Disclosure is the most important, and first, step. As mentioned above, you are editing here under the name of a real world person, and once we resolve the IMPERSONATE issues, that will be somewhat resolved, but we would still need you to explicitly declare your relationship with Alexander Kapp, if there is one. Would you please disclose any such relationship?

After you respond (and you can just reply below), I can walk you through how the "peer review" part happens and then, if you like, I can provide you with some more general orientation as to how this place works. Please reply here, just below, to keep the discussion in one place. Thanks! Jytdog (talk) 15:11, 30 March 2018 (UTC)

pasted reply here that was left on my Talk page Jytdog (talk) 16:10, 30 March 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for your message! I have problems to understand that there are problems with this page which was obviously created by younger co-workers.

Since I obviously have a conflict of interest I would be glad if this page could be checked by a serious editor.Alkappone (talk) 15:18, 30 March 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for your note. The page was created by someone who regularly created academic biographies for pay, without following our community's policies and guidelines. That person has been banned here in English Wikipedia and in the German Wikipedia. You can see here if you like.

I understand that having the tag on the article can be distressing, and will try to review and clean up that article this weekend so that the tag can be removed. Jytdog (talk) 16:14, 30 March 2018 (UTC)

Dear Jytdog could you please so kind to perform the review and clean up next time???Alkappone (talk) 10:50, 28 April 2018 (UTC)