Suphlatus
Managing a conflict of interest
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Hello, Suphlatus. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Sarah Jane Baker, 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, clients, or competitors;
- propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the {{edit COI}} template);
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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. BilledMammal (talk) 13:24, 9 October 2023 (UTC)
- I have no conflicts of interest.
- A clarification question: Does membership in the gender-critical movement, a movement identified by the Lemkin Institute of Genocide Prevention as "furthering a specifically genocidal ideology that seeks the complete eradication of trans identity from the world" constitute a conflict of interest when editing a Wikipedia article about a transgender individual? Suphlatus (talk) 13:37, 9 October 2023 (UTC)
- As a follow on question, have you ever edited under an account other than this one?
- Generally, being a member of a "movement" or similar is not considered to give an individual a conflict of interest; for example, being a member of the democratic party does not constitute a conflict of interest in relation to Joe Biden. BilledMammal (talk) 13:46, 9 October 2023 (UTC)
- No. I will note this line of questioning suggests that you regard me as a bad actor rather than as someone who simply saw a poorly written, wildly transphobic Wikipedia article clearly ghost written by a hate movement and tried to bring the article in line with Wikipedia's standards for discussing transgender individuals. Suphlatus (talk) 13:49, 9 October 2023 (UTC)
- Er ... I wrote the article. (Well, maybe 99% of it.) I'm pretty sure I'm not a hate movement. --GRuban (talk) 20:00, 11 October 2023 (UTC)
- Apologies! My main worries at this stage re: the article is that it doesn't handle Sarah Baker's gender well w.r.t. Wikipedia's style manual for gender. It also made some odd choices re: reporting a counter-protest that Baker was at. Suphlatus (talk) 20:18, 11 October 2023 (UTC)
- Er ... I wrote the article. (Well, maybe 99% of it.) I'm pretty sure I'm not a hate movement. --GRuban (talk) 20:00, 11 October 2023 (UTC)
- No. I will note this line of questioning suggests that you regard me as a bad actor rather than as someone who simply saw a poorly written, wildly transphobic Wikipedia article clearly ghost written by a hate movement and tried to bring the article in line with Wikipedia's standards for discussing transgender individuals. Suphlatus (talk) 13:49, 9 October 2023 (UTC)