JohnMaresh

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Publishing your email address

You asked on your userpage if you may put your email id there. The answer is yes, but you may want to read WP:USERPAGE#Personal and privacy-breaching material before deciding to do so. - Brianhe (talk) 06:49, 23 February 2016 (UTC)

Thanks @Brianhe! JohnMaresh (talk) 05:23, 25 February 2016 (UTC)

Conflicts of interest in Wikipedia

HiJohnMaresh I work on conflict of interest issues here in Wikipedia. Your edits to date are only about Sudip Bose and your account came into existence just as we started the deletion discussion. I'm giving you notice of our Conflict of Interest guideline and Terms of Use, and will have some comments and requests for you below.

Hello, JohnMaresh. 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 COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. In particular, please:

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Comments and requests

Wikipedia is a widely-used reference work and managing conflict of interest is essential for ensuring the integrity of Wikipedia and retaining the public's trust in it. As in academia, COI is managed here in two steps - disclosure and a form of peer review. Please note that there is no bar to being part of the Wikipedia community if you want to be involved in articles where you have a conflict of interest;; there are just some things we ask you to do (and if you are paid, some things you need to do).

Disclosure is the most important, and first, step. While I am not asking you to disclose your identity (anonymity is strictly protecting by our WP:OUTING policy) would you please disclose if you have some connection with Bose or his organization? You can answer how ever you wish (giving personally identifying information or not), but if there is a connection, with please disclose it. After you respond (and you can just reply below), perhaps we can talk a bit about editing Wikipedia, to give you some more orientation to how this place works. Please reply here - I am watching this page. Thanks! Jytdog (talk) 01:11, 25 February 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for the information. I am new to Wiki and currently just reviewing different articles to get an idea how to contribute something in Wiki without any issues like this article. I found Sudip Bose article from the List of Bengalis article in Wiki. Basically it is a part of my study. Nothing else. JohnMaresh (talk) 05:27, 25 February 2016 (UTC)

I have a few questions. I just visited the history page of sudip bose article and found that my edit for the 'salon' article link is tagged as 'Possible Vandalism'. Why? Am I not supposed to fix any link or wording in a article if I choose to do so? Is there any criteria for the users to edit any article? And more importantly will this tag affect any future article created by me? Thanks in advance. JohnMaresh (talk) 05:45, 25 February 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for replying, but your reply is not really credible, based on what many people have done before, are doing right now, and will do in the future in Wikipedia. When an article that has been under heavy promotional pressure goes up for deletion, new accounts often suddenly appear to participate in that discussion and vote !keep. It happens all. the. time. So the very strong likelihood is that your account is what we call a "sock" or you know Bose in real life.

Fortunately, you left yourself some wiggle room in your answer. Would you please reconsider and clarify your answer? I'll be happy to discuss other things, when we are done with this. Thanks. Jytdog (talk) 07:05, 25 February 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply @Jytdog. My research is on notable bengalis in US. When I started my research, I had a few names already in my note and Sudip Bose Was "NOT" there. Then while searching around the internet I accidentally found his name and the Salon article. Then when I saw in his article the link is wrong, I just fixed it. Did not know it would be an issue as I had no idea of what you call a "shock". Anyways, if you can please let me know if this tag would affect any of my future articles, that would be great. Because I am more concerned about my future articles - not this one. JohnMaresh (talk) 04:33, 26 February 2016 (UTC)

Sorry I am referring to "sock" as in "sockpuppet" - here is our policy: WP:SOCK. About your question, a bot tagged your edit as a potential vandalism because all you did was tweak a URL in a reference, and this is something that vandals do - they change the URL in a reference to point to some spammy site, and readers click on it expecting to find a reference and end up there. It is insidious, so we have bots that look for it. It is just a bot tag and would have had no ramifications for you, and will not have any, because the article and your edit to it have now been deleted. It is gone. However your behavior - showing up when an article that has been under heavy promotional pressure goes up for deletion to vote to keep it, is the cloud over you at this time. You also made the same arguments that a paid editor, working on behalf of Bose, made. The same ones. That adds to the likelihood. You may be just an innocent who walked by, of course. We are stuck in this place of unknowing, for now. Jytdog (talk) 03:27, 3 March 2016 (UTC)