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January 2017

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Michael Abramoff has been reverted.
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October 2017

Thank you for your contributions. Please mark your edits, such as your recent edits to Michael Abramoff, as "minor" only if they are minor edits. In accordance with Help:Minor edit, a minor edit is one that the editor believes requires no review and could never be the subject of a dispute. Minor edits consist of things such as typographical corrections, formatting changes or rearrangement of text without modification of content. Additionally, the reversion of clear-cut vandalism and test edits may be labeled "minor". Thank you. Melcous (talk) 21:21, 31 October 2017 (UTC)

Can you please disclose if you have a connection with Michael Abramoff?

Hello, EyeLibrarian. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the page Michael Abramoff, 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:

• 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 COI 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 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. Melcous (talk) 22:49, 15 May 2018 (UTC)

Thank you for your comment.

EyeLibrarian is a liaison librarian with the University of Iowa which also employs Michael Abramoff. As a librarian, I have the advantage of knowing when items by or about UI faculty are published. While I do not have a personal connection, the commonality of our Institutional employment could be construed as a conflict of interest. I am not paid by Dr Abramoff or any of his companies. I will read your suggested items and rectify the page once I figure out what needs to be done and how. (I hope I have done correctly by adding this reply here rather than on a separate page, I am obviously a beginner at this and am trying hard to comply.) EyeLibrarian (talk) 14:48, 16 May 2018 (UTC) EyeLibrarian, May 16, 2018

Thank you for your reply and for taking some time to read the policies and understand wikipedia's conflict of interest guidelines, we appreciate you taking this seriously. And yes it is fine to reply here - there can seem like a lot of things to learn when you are starting out here, but if you do have further questions as you go, feel free to ask them here. Cheers, Melcous (talk) 06:13, 18 May 2018 (UTC)