RobertMWorsham

Unpaid Intern for Joel Osteen Ministries

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Hello, RobertMWorsham, and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate encyclopedic contributions, but some of your recent contributions, such as your edit to the page Joel Osteen, seem to be advertising or for promotional purposes. Wikipedia does not allow advertising. For more information on this, please see:

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Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, RobertMWorsham. 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, 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. Grayfell (talk) 19:28, 8 June 2016 (UTC)

COI

You still need to formally declare your conflict of interest. Just mentioning it in passing to some other editor on their talk page isn't good enough. See Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure. This is not optional.

Your edits reintroduced material which had already been discussed and rejected on Talk:Joel Osteen. I'm reluctant to rehash that lengthy discussion again with a new editor, and I'm especially reluctant to do so if you're only editing as a temporary intern and I'm going to have to do it all over again with whoever eventually replaced you, understand? Propose changes on the talk page, as suggested above and at WP:COI. Thanks. Grayfell (talk) 19:48, 9 June 2016 (UTC) @Grayfell: Done and done. Thanks, RobertMWorsham (talk) 20:06, 9 June 2016 (UTC)