JamesRichliano

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Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, JamesRichliano. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the page Don't You Want Me, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the COI 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 (you can use 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 which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID).

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Ad Orientem (talk) 01:26, 21 August 2019 (UTC)

August 2019

Hello, I'm Ad Orientem. I wanted to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions to User talk:Ad Orientem have been undone because they did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you have any questions, you can ask for assistance at the help desk. You are starting to make me wonder whether or not you are here to build an encyclopedia. I hope that my concerns are misplaced. Ad Orientem (talk) 02:25, 21 August 2019 (UTC)

Conflict of Interest and verifiability; moving forward

Hello JamesRichliano. Since the conversation on Ad Orientem's talk page lead to an improvement in the sourcing of claims at Kon Kan, I am glad to see we will be able to address my original concerns.

As Ad Orientem explained, we don't like editors to directly edit articles when they are closely connected to the subject or sources. This is what we broadly call a "Conflict of Interest" (COI) and from now on, if you wish to contribute to any article with information obtained by you in a professional context (i.e. during an interview you conducted with the subject for a magazine), it would be preferable for you to request that another editor checks the information and source, then if satisfied, makes the appropriate edits. By these measures, we can uphold a higher standard of reputable sourcing.

I am happy to work with you to improve the sourcing of your currently live contributions, and respond to any future requests for edits in the future.

Now I see that you published under the name "Jim Richliano" for Billboard magazine, I have already turned up a few archives with only a quick Google search. I will make efforts to track down archives for the article claims already live, but would appreciate any assistance you can offer – dates, pages, issue numbers etc. Did you also publish as "Jim" for In Newsweekly?

Thank you for your understanding :) Fred Gandt · talk · contribs 10:49, 23 August 2019 (UTC)