Gary B Australia

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June 2023

Welcome to Wikipedia. Because we have a policy against usernames which give the impression that the account represents a group, club, organization, company, or website, I have blocked this account from editing. You are welcome to continue editing after you have chosen a new username that complies with Wikipedia's username policy.

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Thank you. Drmies (talk) 04:02, 29 June 2023 (UTC)

Please do not add or change content without citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. Drmies (talk) 04:05, 29 June 2023 (UTC)

• Renamed, courtesy ping to Drmies - Cabayi (talk) 09:10, 13 November 2023 (UTC)

  Hello Drmies and Cabayl,

  I need assistance with my account. My account was blocked because of the username and my edits of a page that I researched for dozens of hours was reverted to incorrect information ("Australian Legion of Ex-Servicemen and Women").

  Firstly, I am still blocked even though I changed my username from "Legion NSW President 2023" to my new personalised username "Gary B Australia" as you guys requested. Can you please help me get my account unblocked now?

  Secondly, I have thankfully found a draft version of my edits on the system, however all of my links to my formal references and image scans of actual historic documents (minute books and public newspapers from the Australian National Archives) have disappeared. Are you able to see my reference links and lost images and, if so, can you send them to me?

  I am very happy to engage with whoever I need to in order to have the history of the Legion recorded properly, however my comments in the discussion window went ignored and my significant, referenced research was deleted. The page has now reverted to confused information on a different organisation.

  I hope you will assist me.

  Regards Gary B Australia (talk) 07:51, 1 December 2023 (UTC)

Please see what it reads in your block log: "user also needs to disclose their COI, esp. if they get a new user name". Drmies (talk) 13:28, 1 December 2023 (UTC)

Yes, I read that comment about COI. I do not have any conflict of interest whatsoever. It serves me no benefit to record the history other than I promised people in the Legion and RSL that I would when we merged. Certainly no conflicted interests. If you want me to annotate that I was the final President and had access to all of the formal records back to 1942 which I referenced, then just tell me where to declare it and I will. The information at the moment is completely wrong and I provided newspaper references from online National Archives to prove it. Clearly I am now being held to a higher burden of proof than prior authors yiu have reverted to, despite being the most qualified person with the best access to information in the world... Nonetheless, tell me what to "declare" and I'll do it. I just want finish it.

Gary 58.107.180.176 (talk) 05:05, 2 December 2023 (UTC)

Your understanding of conflict of interest does not match Wikipedia's. We do not restrict it to financial COI. "I was the final President" is well within Wikipedia's usage.

Wikipedia's policy on verifiability means that our readers need to be able to verify claims for themselves. They do not have "access to all of the formal records back to 1942". You need to cite reliable, independent sources which they can verify.

"despite being the most qualified person with the best access to information in the world"... the reliability comes from the sources you cite, not who you are.

Everything you wrote is still there in the article's history. - Cabayi (talk) 16:52, 5 December 2023 (UTC)