Chief Activist

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Chief Activist. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the page Bayard Rustin, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest 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 conflict of interest 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 which forms all or part of work 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. GermanJoe (talk) 07:53, 27 February 2019 (UTC)

Friendly suggestion

Please read and study our core content policy called the neutral point of view, and re-write your content on that basis. Adopt a dry "just the facts" tone and leave out anything that any reasonable person might find promotional. Good luck! Cullen³²⁸ Let's discuss it 08:01, 27 February 2019 (UTC)

Sourcing and neutral language

Hello Chief Activist, regardless of the "conflict of interest" question (please make sure to read and follow the information on top), all content should be based on independent reliable sources. "Independent" sources are sources that are not affiliated to or published by the organization itself in this case, for example reputed news media or journals. Also, added information must be phrased in an uninvolved, dispassionate manner (see WP:NPOV). Editors with a personal connection to such topics often struggle with unbiased, objective language - that's one of the reasons why such edits should be suggested on article talk and reviewed by uninvolved volunteers.

I hope this additional clarification is helpful, but you are welcome to discuss this issue at Talk:Bayard Rustin or ask for further advice from other volunteers at WP:Teahouse (a forum for new editors). Best regards. GermanJoe (talk) 08:09, 27 February 2019 (UTC)

August 2021

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Adam Gopnik has been reverted.
Your edit here to Adam Gopnik was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove links which are discouraged per our external links guideline. The external link(s) you added or changed (https://www.facebook.com/RustinCenter/events/) is/are on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia.
If you were trying to insert an external link that does comply with our policies and guidelines, then please accept my creator's apologies and feel free to undo the bot's revert. However, if the link does not comply with our policies and guidelines, but your edit included other, constructive, changes to the article, feel free to make those changes again without re-adding the link. Please read Wikipedia's external links guideline for more information, and consult my list of frequently-reverted sites. For more information about me, see my FAQ page. Thanks! --XLinkBot (talk) 20:03, 13 August 2021 (UTC)