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Meredithlmccoy (talk·contribs) This user has declared a connection. ((Optional) User meredithlmccoy is related to David T. McCoy. To draft the article "David T. McCoy" she relied on his public Curriculum Vitae, news articles about his professional career, and archives from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. User meredithlmccoy has drafted the entirety of the article on David T. McCoy and all links to him in other articles. User meredithlmccoy asserts a qualification to write on the subject of David T. McCoy as a historian of American Indian Studies. User meredithlmccoy requests another editor assess the page for COI and to remove biases.)
Is there another way to remove the COI label? Should I invite someone in particular to revise the content of the page?
Meredithlmccoy (talk) 19:49, 26 January 2017 (UTC)
Meredith L. McCoy, 1/26/2017[reply]
Anyone not connected to the subject should feel encouraged to work on this article. Generally, the COI tag stays for an extended period of time because the material was developed by someone with a conflict of interest and there is an ongoing obligation to inform other editors of this. Now, if all the material was completely replaced by someone with no connection whatsoever, the COI tag would then have no rationale for staying. Stevie is the man!Talk • Work01:39, 29 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
I have no connection whatsoever to McCoy. I deleted ~20% of the article, removing what in my opinion were unnecessary details about the normal responsibilities of McCoy's employment, and also what I considered minor awards. I then removed the COI and other tags. David notMD (talk) 12:53, 17 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
