Johnmesserly

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Link spamming

Please stop adding links to reasonandmeaning.com, for which it appears that you have a conflict of interest. Please see WP:LINKSPAM.Edwardx (talk) 18:11, 22 June 2017 (UTC)

Possible conflict of interest

Hello, Johnmesserly. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places, or things you have written about in the article John G. Messerly, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic, and it is important when editing Wikipedia articles that such connections be completely transparent. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. In particular, we ask that you please:

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Please take a few moments to read and review Wikipedia's policies regarding conflicts of interest, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, sourcing and autobiographies. Thank you. Edwardx (talk) 17:55, 23 June 2017 (UTC)

June 2017

Please do not remove Articles for deletion notices from articles or remove other people's comments in Articles for deletion pages, as you did with John G. Messerly. Doing so won't stop the discussion from taking place. You are, however, welcome to comment about the proposed deletion on the appropriate page. Thank you. CHRISSYMAD ❯❯❯¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 15:50, 24 June 2017 (UTC)

January 2022

Please do not add promotional material to Wikipedia. While objective prose about beliefs, organisations, people, products or services is acceptable, Wikipedia is not a vehicle for soapboxing, advertising or promotion. Thank you. MrOllie (talk) 20:07, 11 January 2022 (UTC)

Important Notice

This is a standard message to notify contributors about an administrative ruling in effect. It does not imply that there are any issues with your contributions to date.

You have shown interest in abortion. Due to past disruption in this topic area, a more stringent set of rules called discretionary sanctions is in effect. Any administrator may impose sanctions on editors who do not strictly follow Wikipedia's policies, or the page-specific restrictions, when making edits related to the topic.

For additional information, please see the guidance on discretionary sanctions and the Arbitration Committee's decision here. If you have any questions, or any doubts regarding what edits are appropriate, you are welcome to discuss them with me or any other editor.

Doug Weller talk 20:28, 11 January 2022 (UTC)

Dear Professor Messerly

This is not a warning, it is simply an "alert", a notification about a set of rules/standards applicable to the general area of abortion. It's standard - if you look at my talk page above your post you'll see that I gave myself one about Covid, and at the top of my talk page there's a list of many more. The only issue anyone would raise is citing yourself, and if you follow the guidance at WP:Refspam there shouldn't be a problem. Please don't let this discourage you from editing, it certainly wasn't meant to. Doug Weller talk 07:13, 12 January 2022 (UTC)