Techlawyer

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I noticed that one of the first articles you edited was Clearview AI, which appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article. Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

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Clearview AI help and advice

I understand that my proposed edit (addition) to the Clearview AI page was deleted/rejected based on conflict of interest and seek you help. First, I have no relationship whatsoever to Clearview AI or any of it officers, directors or shareholders nor am I getting any payment for the edit that I proposed or from Clearview or anyone else. The Clearview AI page references many citations (articles, comments) on Clearview AI but none of those authors quoted or cited have any hands on experience in using Clearview AI in terms of its end user functionality in the hands of a police officer/criminal investigator. As such I believe that the article that I recently published provides readers with exactly what is missing from the Clearview AI page/discussion - and it was simply my objective to reference that article to provide readers with that perspective. If it is not possible to edit the page to reference myself and the published article, an alternative would be to simply list the article under the See Also section? That would at least allow readers to have access to the article as part of the overall discussion of Clearview AI. Would that be acceptable? Techlawyer (talk) 02:35, 19 April 2020 (UTC)

Normally, the editors who respond to {{help me}} requests are happy to answer questions about how to edit Wikipedia but avoid getting involved in disputes about content. What you have here is both a dispute about content and a misunderstanding of conflict of interest. If there is disagreement between editors about what should be included on a page, that is expected to be hashed out on the talk page of the article in question. Each editor can explain why their version of the article is best and give Wikipedia policy-based arguments for why.

In this case, however, there is a bright-line rule about conflict of interest. You should not be adding a link or reference to any page where you are the author of the source being cited. These edits are considered LINKSPAM and can be removed for that reason. It is not that you are being seen as having a connection with the subject of the article. You have a conflict because your interest in having the citation on Wikipedia is, or may be seen to be, in conflict with Wikipedia's goal of creating an encyclopedia.

So, while you are not allowed to add the link yourself, you are allowed to bring the link up on the talk page of the article as an {{edit request}} so an independent editor can determine whether it is or is not a suitable addition. Edit requests go into a category (just like help requests) and will get attention quite soon (unlike ordinary comments on talk pages that have been known to go for years without a response). — jmcgnh^{(talk) (contribs)} 03:09, 19 April 2020 (UTC)