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Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, BlueHawkUp. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the page David L. Hicks, 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:

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Also please note that editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. —C.Fred (talk) 23:29, 20 May 2018 (UTC)

May 2018

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C.Fred 20 May 2018 2337 ZULU - for the page created David L. Hicks I was citing sources to prevent plagiarism. This is part of an assignment for a course I am taking and it will be turned in for a grade. If I do not cite my sources that is considered plagiarism and an automatic fail. I am sure you understand that; you're been doing wiki stuff for a long time. I am supposed to graduate with a Master's degree in less than 2 weeks time. I would hate to fail for not citing my sources on a wikipedia assignment. I know it looks like the sources are close to the source of the BLP. However, considering that it is about the President of the Seminary and are from his CVs and his Resume that have been vetted and archived in the library (prior to my being a student there) I can tell you that I am just trying to get the assignment taken care of. Creating this page was my idea. We are trying to maintain the information on pages concerning the Reformed Episcopal Church and leadership in the church. This Bishop does not have a page. I do not know much about Wikipedia so this is the first page I have created. thanks. Blue23:42, 20 May 2018 (UTC)~~

The problem is that the sources you have cited are all either by Hicks or his diocese. There are no independent sources writing about him; that's the problem. Further, the COI tag is added because of your connection to Hicks—and that's only compounded if he's the head of the school you're attending and writing about him for a grade. (Fortunately grades aren't remuneration, so you don't seem to fall into the category of a paid editor.) —C.Fred (talk) 23:50, 20 May 2018 (UTC)

23:55, 20 May 2018 (UTC)23:55, 20 May 2018 (UTC)23:55, 20 May 2018 (UTC)23:55, 20 May 2018 (UTC)23:55, 20 May 2018 (UTC)23:55, 20 May 2018 (UTC)23:55, 20 May 2018 (UTC)23:55, 20 May 2018 (UTC)23:55, 20 May 2018 (UTC)23:55, 20 May 2018 (UTC)23:55, 20 May 2018 (UTC)23:55, 20 May 2018 (UTC)23:55, 20 May 2018 (UTC)23:55, 20 May 2018 (UTC)23:55, 20 May 2018 (UTC)23:55, 20 May 2018 (UTC)23:55, 20 May 2018 (UTC)23:55, 20 May 2018 (UTC)23:55, 20 May 2018 (UTC)23:55, 20 May 2018 (UTC)23:55, 20 May 2018 (UTC)23:55, 20 May 2018 (UTC)23:55, 20 May 2018 (UTC)23:55, 20 May 2018 (UTC)23:55, 20 May 2018 (UTC)23:55, 20 May 2018 (UTC)23:55, 20 May 2018 (UTC)23:55, 20 May 2018 (UTC)23:55, 20 May 2018 (UTC)23:55, 20 May 2018 (UTC)23:55, 20 May 2018 (UTC)23:55, 20 May 2018 (UTC)BlueHawkUp (talk) 23:55, 20 May 2018 (UTC) (talk) ZULU 2352, 20 May 2018 Thank you for your quick reply - if I understand you correctly, it is good that I am not a paid editor so that's a good thing. However, since no one has written about him then the sources are too close to him and look "biased". BTW, I have looked at everything cited and like for the list of committees, I realise I did not need to cite every item so I cited the last item from each source. that way there are not a tonne of citations, it looked messy anyways. I can find some contributors to later add to the page. I need to get the page started and there will be others to add to it later. I just wanted to get a good foundation for the page. As someone with your experience, for my first time making a wiki page, and I will admit, I found the templates, so I did not totally make everything from scratch, but how did I do? Forgot to sign ... Blue :) 23:56, 20 May 2018 (UTC)23:56, 20 May 2018 (UTC)23:56, 20 May 2018 (UTC)23:56, 20 May 2018 (UTC)BlueHawkUp (talk) 23:56, 20 May 2018 (UTC) 23:56, 20 May 2018 (UTC)23:56, 20 May 2018 (UTC)23:56, 20 May 2018 (UTC)23:56, 20 May 2018 (UTC)23:56, 20 May 2018 (UTC)23:56, 20 May 2018 (UTC)23:56, 20 May 2018 (UTC)23:56, 20 May 2018 (UTC)23:56, 20 May 2018 (UTC)23:56, 20 May 2018 (UTC)23:56, 20 May 2018 (UTC)23:56, 20 May 2018 (UTC)23:56, 20 May 2018 (UTC)23:56, 20 May 2018 (UTC)23:56, 20 May 2018 (UTC)23:56, 20 May 2018 (UTC)23:56, 20 May 2018 (UTC)23:56, 20 May 2018 (UTC)23:56, 20 May 2018 (UTC)23:56, 20 May 2018 (UTC)23:56, 20 May 2018 (UTC)23:56, 20 May 2018 (UTC)23:56, 20 May 2018 (UTC)23:56, 20 May 2018 (UTC)23:56, 20 May 2018 (UTC)23:56, 20 May 2018 (UTC)23:56, 20 May 2018 (UTC)23:56, 20 May 2018 (UTC)23:56, 20 May 2018 (UTC)23:56, 20 May 2018 (UTC)23:56, 20 May 2018 (UTC)23:56, 20 May 2018 (UTC)23:56, 20 May 2018 (UTC)23:56, 20 May 2018 (UTC)23:56, 20 May 2018 (UTC)BlueHawkUp (talk)