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March 2012

Please do not remove content or templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Liberty Fund, without giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your content removal does not appear constructive and has been reverted. Please make use of the sandbox if you'd like to experiment with test edits. Thank you. It's reliably sourced and it is about the Liberty Fund. Dougweller (talk) 21:27, 5 March 2012 (UTC)

COI

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For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Thank you. a13ean (talk) 21:43, 5 March 2012 (UTC)

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to blank out or remove portions of page content, templates or other materials from Wikipedia, you may be blocked from editing. "Information removed does not pertain to Liberty Fund" is not a valid reason for removing material where the source is clearly and explicitly discussing the Liberty Fund - in fact it's a misleading edit summary. Dougweller (talk) 18:47, 6 March 2012 (UTC)

Your recent editing history at Liberty Fund shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war. Being involved in an edit war can result in you being blocked from editing—especially if you violate the three-revert rule, which states that an editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Undoing another editor's work—whether in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material each time—counts as a revert. Also keep in mind that while violating the three-revert rule often leads to a block, you can still be blocked for edit warring—even if you don't violate the three-revert rule—should your behavior indicate that you intend to continue reverting repeatedly.

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Close connection

Android1961, do you have any connection to Liberty Fund? This would include being an employee or being contracted by Liberty Fund. OlYeller21^Talktome 19:36, 6 March 2012 (UTC)

Your edit to Liberty Fund

Andrew, thanks very much for your response on my talk page and apologies for not getting back to you yesterday. As has been explained above, you have a conflict of interest and other than very minor edits should not be directly editing the article but suggesting changes on the talk page. You state on my talk page "I was recently advised from our President of the company that there is content on the Liberty Fund Wikipedia page that is incorrect. Someone outside of the Foundation has added material about a book to our conference section. Liberty Fund does not publish the book or is affiliated with the book in any way whatsoever." This is a basic misunderstanding of how Wikipedia functions. Our articles are based on what reliable sources (see WP:RS and WP:VERIFYhave said about a subject and should cover all majority and significant minority points of view. We can use what a person or organisation says about themselves but we must also use what other reliable sources have to say about that organisation or person (and if there are none then probably we shouldn't have an article about it, but that's a different issue and clearly doesn't apply here). As it stands, the article only has one independent source commenting on it, and that is the bit of the article you were trying to remove. Obviously the Liberty Fund has its critics, and an article that didn't reflect that would not meet one of our core polices, neutral point of view. So I have to ask you not to try to remove that again, although you are of course free to discuss it on the talk page. There are venues on Wikipedia where you can object to this and if you feel strongly about it I'll point you to them, but I'd be surprised if you got agreement to remove it. Note that it does attribute the comments rather than simply make them in Wikipedia's voice. Finally, and to make it transparent (although it's clear in the history of the article), I was the editor who added that as without it it clearly doesn't meet our NPOV policy. You might want to see my comments at WP:COIN also. Dougweller (talk) 09:37, 8 March 2012 (UTC)