Jan Z

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COI concerns

If you have a close connection to some of the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, edits where there is a conflict of interest, or where such a conflict might reasonably be inferred from the tone of the edit and the proximity of the editor to the subject, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:

1. editing articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with,
2. participating in deletion discussions about articles related to your organization or its competitors,
3. linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam);

   and you must always:

4. avoid breaching relevant policies and guidelines, especially neutral point of view, attribution, and autobiography.

For more details, please read the Conflict of Interest guideline. Thank you. RJASE1 ^Talk 15:02, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Self-links

You have been strongly advised per WP:COI and WP:SPAM not to add links to your own website. Please do not restore such links removed by other editors, particularly via disingenuous m minor edit summaries - if such links are viewed to be of value others will add them. Tearlach 13:54, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

Okay, I accept that you removed the link to my website http://www.janzuidhoek.net, added by me indeed a few days ago. But the link to my website http://www.millenniummistake.net is a very old one, and it is not known to me who added it (it is certainly not me). So you are kindly requested to restore it. Jan Z 15:41, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

I suggest adding the link to the article's talk page with a description, to see if more neutral editors feel the link is required for the article. RJASE1 ^Talk 15:43, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

I repeat: The link to my website http://www.millenniummistake.net is a very old one, and it is not known to me who added it. It is certainly not me who added it. You (Tearlach) removed without any reason a link which was added by an other editor several years ago. So it is reasonable to apologize and to redeem your mistake by restoring the link in question. Moreover, it certainly compensates for the two remaining, quite biased, external links. Jan Z 17:05, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

It was added here by 81.68.7.184 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log), a one-off IP edit from somewhere in the Netherlands. Nevertheless, you have been reinstating it yourself, which comes under WP:COI. RJASE1's idea is good, and even better some kind of expert review: Wikipedia:Verifiability warns against using self-published websites as sources, and the format - one page in six languages by an unknown author asserting "the definitive solution of the millennium question" - looks polemical to me. Tearlach 18:27, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

I accept the suggestion of RJASE1 to explain my point of view at the article's talk page. Jan Z 19:47, 14 April 2007 (UTC)