Talk:Robert Lyn Nelson

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Conflict of interest editing, unreferenced blatant promotionalism

I have removed the unreferenced, repetitive, and blatantly promotional commentary which had been added to this article. The repeated attempts to use this article as a PR puff piece are entirely inappropriate. To those editors who have been adding it, if you have any affiliation whatsoever with the article's subject, including being paid by him to edit this article, please read Wikipedia:Conflict of interest and follow the guidelines there scrupulously. Further, do not add quotes or evaluations of this person's work unless they are referenced to an entirely independent published source. His profile at the National Marine Sanctuary Foundation. is not independent. The promotional videos on YouTube masquerading as "documentaries" are not independent. Please read:

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Voceditenore (talk) 05:57, 7 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

At least two accounts contributing to this article were blocked due to sockpuppeting based on paid editing contracted on an external website. The article itself was created by an SPA--could well be another sockpuppet of the paid editor, in light of the proliferation of COI here and the highly promotional nature of the edits. Logical Cowboy (talk)

References

I have moved this link:

Video interview with Robert Lyn Nelson at the Smithsonian Institution on the official YouTube channel of RealPopStudio

from its use a reference to the external links section. The video is labelled by RealPopStudio (who made the video) as "A promotional video used to inform collectors and the public on the life and work of the artist. Used for sales, marketing, in galleries and on line." It should not be used to reference self-serving claims in this article. Voceditenore (talk) 06:22, 10 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Copyright problem removed

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Note the above notice applies to extensive copyvio which was added and subsequently removed and revision deleted in August 2018. Voceditenore (talk) 05:48, 17 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Copyvio and other issues

In 2018 a large amount of copyvio was removed and revision deleted (see above). Today, I have removed recently added copyvio from the following book:

Alexander, Geoff (2018). America Goes Hawaiian: The Influence of Pacific Island Culture on the Mainland. McFarland. p. 186. ISBN 1476633568. Retrieved 17 July 2019.

I have also copyedited the remaining text to remove false assertions and promotional language. I strongly suggest that the editor who had added the most recent copyvio [1] read our policies on copyright violation (Wikipedia:Copyright violations), neutral point of view (Wikipedia:Neutral point of view), and conflict of interest editing (Wikipedia:Conflict of interest). Voceditenore (talk) 05:43, 17 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]