Peterobosa

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July 2018

Please do not add commentary, your own point of view, or your own personal analysis to Wikipedia articles, as you did to Paul Adefarasin. Doing so violates Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy and breaches the formal tone expected in an encyclopedia. Thank you. HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 02:30, 25 July 2018 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Peterobosa. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the page Paul Adefarasin, 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. We ask that you:

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Also please note that editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. If you add promotional content to the article again, you may be blocked from editing. Wikipedia articles are supposed to be neutrally written. Bishonen | talk 12:53, 25 July 2018 (UTC)

July 2018

I see you have continued to edit the article, adding more promotion, without responding above. Please reply here before you edit the article again. Bishonen | talk 13:04, 25 July 2018 (UTC).

Please explain below, here, whether you have a relationship to the article subject, such as being a relative, friend, client, or employee, or being the subject yourself. If you are being paid to edit the article, you must disclose that, as explained above. Bishonen | talk 13:19, 25 July 2018 (UTC).

No Conflict

Peterobosa (talk) 13:39, 25 July 2018 (UTC)Hello. I do not have a relationship with the user in question. I also am not being paid to make these updates, just trying to improve on the page.

Also, my last edit an expansion of the publications section which isn't exactly promotional content. Please clarify.

Thanks for the prompt response. As I wrote in my edit summary when I reverted your latest edit,[1] self-published inspirational mini-booklets don't belong here. That amount of trivia is promotional in itself. You'll note I left the mention of the three other books, even though actually this reference link doesn't work. Please try to fix it.

I understand you don't have a relationship, but the way you write in the article shows that you are at the very least a burning admirer of the subject. Some of your edits have been informational, and are appreciated, but this addition is heavily promotional. This whole (unsourced) paragraph of praise is completely inappropriate for Wikipedia:

He is widely regarded as a visionary leader and bridge-builder. His ability to transcend Race, Tribe and Creed with his unique approach to ministry has seen to the forging of many strategic relationships between the church and secular communities in Africa. He has a burning passion to see the rehabilitation of his generation, his nation and his continent.

That's the kind of thing HickoryOughtShirt?4 was talking about above, though he put it so mildly it may not have been clear to you. I was sorry to see you re-add it after a more experienced user removed it. Also, the paragraph is widely present on the internet, which means adding it to a Wikipedia article is a copyright violation. I don't know who originally published it, but I see Goodreads claims copyright.[2] Anyway, someone will own the copyright, and unless it's you, you must not dump it on Wikipedia. The copyright rules here are very strict: you must write in your own words. See Wikipedia:Copyrights.

I'm sorry if this is a lot to take in at once. Bishonen | talk 14:08, 25 July 2018 (UTC).

• And I'm sorry to see you have been disingenuous throughout and clearly do have a conflict of interest. Blocked as a sockpuppet. Bishonen | talk 16:23, 25 July 2018 (UTC).