Amymichelle229

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Amymichelle229. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places, or things you have written about in the article Kenny Vance, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic, and it is important when editing Wikipedia articles that such connections be completely transparent. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. In particular, we ask that you please:

• avoid editing or creating articles related to you and your family, friends, school, company, club, or organization, as well as any competing companies' projects or products;
• instead, you are encouraged to propose changes on the Talk pages of affected article(s) (see the {{request edit}} template);
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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).

Please take a few moments to read and review Wikipedia's policies regarding conflicts of interest, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, sourcing and autobiographies. Thank you. bonadea contributions talk 21:18, 9 December 2016 (UTC)

I did. And I don't have a conflict of interest, just took his biography from him and posted it. I'm a website manager, I don't really care about him. Amymichelle229 (talk) 04:11, 10 December 2016 (UTC)

You are nonetheless replacing cited material with uncited material. Your replacement entry is promotional in tone and not suitable for an encyclopedia. Your assertion that you "just took his biography from him and posted it" makes it less reliable and less likely that your contributions will remain. If you want changes made, you should go to the article's Talk page and try to get a consensus. Otherwise, this kind of wholesale rewrite is virtually certain to be reverted. NewEnglandYankee (talk) 19:09, 10 December 2016 (UTC)

Looking again at what I wrote there . . . I don't want to discourage you, or anyone, from trying to improve Wikipedia. The article is not a good one; it's insufficiently cited, it's not written in the appropriate tone, and it reads like an essay. However, repeating what Kenny Vance claims in his autobiography isn't a good way to go about fixing it. Wikipedia isn't a place for reporting what the article subject says about himself; it's a place for reporting what other sources say about him (or her). NewEnglandYankee (talk) 19:19, 10 December 2016 (UTC)

You are putting up material that is of a both an untrue nature and libel. Kenny is willing to take police action against you as you are posting damaging and defamatory material. I don't really care that my writing "reads like an essay;" at least it reads true. I hope this page becomes protected-AGAINST YOU. This is terribly incorrect information and your "sourced material" sucks! You are using citing to "current pages" that Kenny Vance hasn't been associated with for YEARS! So reporting what "other sources say about him" is completely wrong as well. You might as well be quoting the National Enquirer or some BS tabloid magazine. I will be petitioning to the Administrators to have you removed from editing this page and hopefully have this page protected from you. Your "source" material is wrong, your grammar is awful and you have no right to be posting such terribly incorrect material. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.75.101.130 (talk) 19:52, 15 December 2016 (UTC)

Petition away. (For the record, I personally didn't write any part of the article, nor do I expect to.) However, threats are another extremely poor tactic. You are likely to get a result that's the opposite of what you want. Wikipedia operates by certain rules and customs. The best way to get your changes accepted is to follow those rules and customs. NewEnglandYankee (talk) 20:12, 15 December 2016 (UTC)

So you do in fact have a conflict of interest (as you are apparently aware of what "Kenny" is willing to do). Secondly, legal threats of any kind are not allowed and can be grounds for blocking unless it is retracted. See the note on your IP talk page about that. --bonadea contributions talk 20:54, 15 December 2016 (UTC)