JimParrottWaterloo

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Hello, JimParrottWaterloo, and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate encyclopedic contributions, but some of your recent contributions, such as your edit to the page Royal College of Surgeons of England, seem to be advertising or for promotional purposes. Wikipedia does not allow advertising. For more information on this, please see:

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I hope you enjoy editing Wikipedia! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. Feel free to write a note on the bottom of my talk page if you want to get in touch with me. Again, welcome! 10mmsocket (talk) 07:12, 28 November 2024 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, JimParrottWaterloo. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, 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 article subjects for more information. We ask that you:

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Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicizing, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. You should not be promoting your own website. That is a clear conflict of interest. 10mmsocket (talk) 08:31, 28 November 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for your clarifications. I see that you have removed my edits. What you may be unaware of is that 3 of the pages that I modified already had external links to the Scholarly Societies Project; I was simply updating the URL and supplying some additional text. In these 3 instances you have effectively expunged material that had been created by Editors other than myself. Below are references to the archived versions at archive.org:

(1) https://web.archive.org/web/20100526095623/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned_society [indexed 2010]; (2) https://web.archive.org/web/20160413192559/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accademia_Pontaniana [2016] ; and (3) https://web.archive.org/web/20121115005918/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_College_of_Physicians [2012] I would like to know whether I am permitted to correct other links to my Scholarly Societies Project in articles created by other Editors? Should I instead contact the Editor who created the link? If the latter, how do I do that? Sincerely, Jim Parrott. JimParrottWaterloo (talk) 09:42, 28 November 2024 (UTC)