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Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Scribista. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Vishva Dixit, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest 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:

• avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization or competitors;
• propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the {{request edit}} template);
• disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see Wikipedia:Conflict of interest#How to disclose a COI);
• avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam#External link spamming);
• do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Greyjoy ^talk 05:57, 23 June 2022 (UTC)

Hi Greyjoy, I have been contracted by Vishva Dixit to make these edits to his Wiki page. Is that a conflict of interest? I will look up the How to disclose a COI page. Scribista (talk) 06:16, 23 June 2022 (UTC)

Editing the article on behalf of the person is absolutely a conflict of interest. Greyjoy ^talk 06:19, 23 June 2022 (UTC)

I had no idea--Dixit reached out to me and asked me to edit his Wiki page because he didn't know how. I figured since he is the primary source (therefore it's not libel) and I have citations to back up everything, that it was legit. Thank you for bringing this to my attention. So if I disclose the COI, it should be fine? Or if not, then how can Dixit edit his own Wiki page? Scribista (talk) 06:32, 23 June 2022 (UTC)

Dixit should not be editing his own page, if someone has a COI they should make edit requests on the article talk page. Wikipedia avoids using primary sources as they can be hard to verify in the future. Yes most of the stuff you added was cited (which is why it is still there), however when COI editors tend to be influenced by their connection to the topic which is why Wikipedia does not allow it. The links I included with my initial message probably do a better job of explaining it than I do. Greyjoy ^talk 06:35, 23 June 2022 (UTC)

I emailed Dixit and will sort out the COI disclosure tomorrow. From now on, any changes he wants will be proposed on the talk pages. Thank you. Scribista (talk) 06:51, 23 June 2022 (UTC)

Hi Greyjoy, I added the COI at the top of this talk page. Is that ok? Will you or another editor remove the template pop up now: A major contributor to this article appears to have a close connection with its subject. It may require cleanup to comply with Wikipedia's content policies, particularly neutral point of view.? Thank you. Scribista (talk) 00:19, 24 June 2022 (UTC)

The template is currently still applicable because it was largely edited by a person with a COI, declaring the COI doesn't change that. If other editors look at your changes and believe that the maintenance tag isn't warranted they will remove the template. Just to clarify as per your COI declaration, this was a paid contribution? Greyjoy ^talk 02:17, 24 June 2022 (UTC)

Yes, Dixit paid me to edit his Wiki. I had worked with him on other writing projects, but never edited a Wiki page before, so I had to teach myself how to edit Wiki. At this point, we just wait until another editor might look at Dixit's page and decide whether the maintenance tag will be removed? Thank you. Scribista (talk) 02:59, 24 June 2022 (UTC)

Just to confirm, I'm not allowed to request a clean up of Dixit's page because of COI, so we can only wait to see if a random person happens to come upon his page and decides to clean it up or post a request for clean up? Scribista (talk) 23:21, 26 June 2022 (UTC)

You can make requests on the article's talk page by making an edit request. Greyjoy ^talk 00:40, 27 June 2022 (UTC)

Thank you! Scribista (talk) 05:20, 27 June 2022 (UTC)