Davidhary

November 2019

Hello, Davidhary, welcome to Wikipedia and thank you for your contributions. Your editing pattern indicates that you may be using multiple accounts or coordinating editing with people outside Wikipedia, such as Rami Neudorfer (talk · contribs). Our policy on multiple accounts usually does not allow this, and users who use multiple accounts may be blocked from editing. If you operate multiple accounts directly or with the help of another person, please disclose these connections. Thank you. Cabayi (talk) 11:03, 7 November 2019 (UTC)

Hello Cabayi As far as I know, I have a single account. I do not know of Rami Neudorfer (talk · contribs) other than via the entry for Avital Inbar, who has been a friend of mine for over 40 years and whose entry I was trying to edit seeing that it was slated for deletion. David Hary (talk) 16:52, 8 November 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for clarifying. Rami had created at least one additional account to create a false impression that editors other than himself thought the article worth keeping. As a new account it seemed possible that either, yours was another such account, or you had been solicited to come to Wikipedia to the same effect.

Given your connection to Avital Inbar, different policies apply...

Hello, Davidhary. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the page Avital Inbar, 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, colleagues, company, organization or competitors;
• propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the {{request edit}} template);
• disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see Wikipedia:Conflict of interest#How to disclose a COI);
• 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 are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to 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 Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you.. Cabayi (talk) 17:19, 8 November 2019 (UTC)

Indeed, by Wikipedia's definition I do have conflict of interest. Still, my editing was confined to providing corroborating evidence. I did not make any statement of opinion or value judgement. Rather, I added information that one editor asked for and which I asked Mr. Inbar to provide. This includes copies of his awards and references to articles written about Mr. Inbar. I am prepared to deliver this information to editors who are not friends of Mr. Inbar for review and inclusion in his topic. Had I been aware of this policy, I would have asked Mr. Slater to review and enter the information I have obtained. My bad.David Hary (talk) 19:30, 8 November 2019 (UTC)

COI

Please read [[wp:COI].Slatersteven (talk) 19:11, 8 November 2019 (UTC)

Slatersteven thank you for bringing this to my attention. While we can argue about editing the kind of materials I added to the topic, I have no interest in breaking the COI rules of Wikipedia. It is too dear to me. You are welcome to remove all the materials I added. Obviously nothing I added cannot be located in the public domain so, in that vein, it is just information--the Wikipedia bread and butter. David Hary (talk) 19:30, 8 November 2019 (UTC)To this end, let me know if you are prepared to review and enter that material and citation in my place.

No interest in remove anything, if the article stays fine. But form now on it might be best to post anything you wish to add to the article talk page.Slatersteven (talk) 19:31, 8 November 2019 (UTC)

lesson learned. David Hary (talk) 19:35, 8 November 2019 (UTC)