Malaou

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Help request

To Whom It May Concern,

I was viewing my web page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Anthony_Richardson) and I saw that my name (which should be highlighted in yellow) isn't above my picture, and word "background information" (which should be highlighted in yellow) isn't heading my information below it. Could someone please do these things for me?

Warm regards,

Marc Anthony Richardson — Preceding unsigned comment added by Malaou (talk • contribs) 09:35, October 29, 2017 (UTC)

I have added a standard infobox instead of the customized table. Yellow highlighting, however, would not agree with Wikipedia's Manual of Style. I also don't see a need for a "Background information" section heading. That the body of the article gives background information seems rather self-explanatory. Huon (talk) 10:35, 29 October 2017 (UTC)

Conflict of interest

Re the question of conflict of interest, you might seek advice from Help. Rwood128 (talk) 13:06, 4 December 2017 (UTC)

I did not know this. From now on, I will suggest edits in talk.

And to just be clear, I am an associate of Mr. Richardson (Malaou), and I had HIM write that he is the author of this book in question, thinking it would help credibility, but he is NOT the author of this wiki page. Can you please remove the warning from his webpage? Sorry for the confusion. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Malaou (talk • contribs) 19:30, December 4, 2017 (UTC)

Sharing accounts is not permitted, please don't do that. Also please read WP:COI and check out some of the other links above for more info about editing with a conflict of interest. The article might need some better sourcing and a bit of cleanup - not too bad - but in general you have to be very careful editing a page where you have a close connection to the subject. Fyddlestix (talk) 13:49, 5 December 2017 (UTC)

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