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Managing a conflict of interest
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Hello, UTorontoPHD. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Seth Abramson, 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. Fences&Windows 22:37, 19 May 2021 (UTC)
- While you may start using a new account (welcoming your own account does not fool anyone), the same warning made to Telmo6T applies to this account too. You must not continue to make disruptive edits to Seth Abramson. If you do, you will be blocked from editing that article. I strongly advise you to not edit that page directly but instead request changes on the talk page. Wkkipedia is not here for you to promote the article subject. Fences&Windows 22:41, 19 May 2021 (UTC)
- Hi, I made one bad edit that was immediately undone with my approval, and the basis for undoing it was not the content but the lack of a WP:N source. All of my other edits are WP:NPOV, including supporting the removal of promotional content, shortening excessive quotes and lists, removing all unsourced content (or finding cites if they exist), fixing cites, fixing factual errors, and in general improving the article. I have no interest in "promoting" this article subject, about whom I have mixed opinions but not the apparent hatred some do, and in fact you are corresponding with someone right who has clear problem with the article subject. She or he wants to call the subject a "conspiracy theorist" in the article lead, and without proper sourcing. When pressed, she or he admitted it was their opinion ("Abramson is all three"). I have no idea why you take this approach to me and don't warn this OP about bad faith edits, of which he or she has already attempted to make many and, importantly, had them reversed by multiple other WP editors. I have had one edit undone and agreed with the undoing immediately. And then you came here and accused me of being disruptive. UTorontoPHD (talk) 03:23, 20 May 2021 (UTC)
Discretionary sanctions alert
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This is a standard message to notify contributors about an administrative ruling in effect. It does not imply that there are any issues with your contributions to date.
You have shown interest in articles about living or recently deceased people, and edits relating to the subject (living or recently deceased) of such biographical articles. Due to past disruption in this topic area, a more stringent set of rules called discretionary sanctions is in effect. Any administrator may impose sanctions on editors who do not strictly follow Wikipedia's policies, or the page-specific restrictions, when making edits related to the topic.
For additional information, please see the guidance on discretionary sanctions and the Arbitration Committee's decision here. If you have any questions, or any doubts regarding what edits are appropriate, you are welcome to discuss them with me or any other editor.