Sifriyah67

Recent edits to Sam Lipski

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that you removed some content from Sam Lipski without explaining why. In the future, it would be helpful to others if you described your changes to Wikipedia with an accurate edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry; I restored the removed content. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you! Materialscientist (talk) 07:45, 9 February 2020 (UTC)

Hello, I'm Eagleash. I noticed that you added or changed content in an article, Sam Lipski, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so. You can have a look at the tutorial on citing sources, or if you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Eagleash (talk) 21:36, 9 February 2020 (UTC)

Please DELETE what you just replaced

With respect, I don't know why you tinkered with this page without my permission.

Please DELETE the birthdate and allow me to update the page as I wish.

I created and publish Mr Lipski's website and manage his online affairs. So any changes to his page are done with his permission and on his behalf.

Please leave me as the admin for his page. Kindly advise asap.

Thank you

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Sifriyah67. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the page Sam Lipski, 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 WP:Spam);
• 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. - FlightTime (open channel) 21:45, 9 February 2020 (UTC)

Sam Lipski page

There is NO conflict of interest.

Someone created this page without our knowledge.

That is fine, he is a public figure.

But some parts of the page are not well written and completely out of order. Some is out of date.

The subject of the page has a right to control his own information for personal privacy reasons. We do not want his birth date publish for privacy purposes. (People tend to use this information to intrude and send messages on his birthday which we do not wish to encourage). We have a right to control our own information.

I do not wish to promote or advertise in any way. On the contrary. I just wish to have his information clear and factual.

This is what Wikipedia strives for, and these are our guidelines.

Thank you.

You have stated here that you're his wife, how is that not a conflict of interest? On Wikipedia it is. Who created the page and when is irrelevant. If you continue to disrupt the article you may loose your ability to edit here. Every article here belongs to Wikimedia, not the subjects. - FlightTime (open channel) 22:10, 9 February 2020 (UTC)

February 2020

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you remove or blank page content or templates from Wikipedia, as you did at Sam Lipski. - FlightTime (open channel) 22:00, 9 February 2020 (UTC)

I do not understand. Do we not have the right to our own privacy?

Privacy

Please read our policy on Biographies of living persons (WP:BLP). We treat this policy very seriously. However, if a person is notable enough to have a Wikipedia page, then that person has had information published about them fairly broadly, and that means the individual is no longer a private person. We do not permit information in our articles that cannot be verified by reference to reliable sources. However, if information can be verified and it is reasonably relevant, then we have no prohibition on adding it to an article. In that sense, no, you have no right to privacy, but it is not Wikipedia that published this information in the first place. -Arch dude (talk) 04:36, 10 February 2020 (UTC)

Article "ownership"

You are not the "administrator" of any article on Wikipedia. There is no such person for any page. Please read WP:OWN. We do have "administrators" but their roles do not include control of editorial content. As an individual with a (completely understandable) conflict of interest (WP:COI), you have less rights to edit the Sam Lipski article than any of the other 39 million Wikipedia editors, not more. You agreed that your work could be edited by others when you created the article. The agreement was presented to you on the web page you used to enter the text of the article. I am sorry that you are upset by the result, but your case is not unusual, and at least you do not have to deal with some of the consequences that others have encountered: see Wikipedia:An article about yourself isn't necessarily a good thing. -Arch dude (talk) 04:50, 10 February 2020 (UTC)

I would also add that because Wikipedia summarizes what independent reliable sources state about a subject, the subject's consent is not required for there to be a Wikipedia article about them- as long as the content is accurate, not defamatory, and can be verified with independent reliable sources. 331dot (talk) 12:59, 10 February 2020 (UTC)

Procedures

Hi Sifriyah67. As you can see, editors at Wikipedia can be prickly. The problem is that hundreds of people every day try to manipulate articles about topics they have a personal connection with, and there is not much time to do more than give a formal response. I suggest you ask for advice at WP:Teahouse. I saw your message at Wikipedia:Help desk#Personal privacy but that page is more for mechanical "how-to" advice. After seeking thoughts at the Teahouse, another option might be to ask at the biographies noticeboard whether the birth date at Sam Lipski could be removed per WP:DOB. Removing the date might not be achievable because Who's Who is a reliable source and widely available. Therefore people would argue that the date is publicly known.

By the way, when you write a comment, please add a signature (see WP:SIG) by adding a space and four tilde characters at the end of the last line of your comment (~~~~). Johnuniq (talk) 08:51, 10 February 2020 (UTC)