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February 2022

Please do not remove content or templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Mo Pinel, without giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your content removal does not appear to be constructive and has been reverted. If you only meant to make a test edit, please use your sandbox for that. Thank you. Binksternet (talk) 15:43, 21 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Albetha2!98. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Mo Pinel, 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 Wikipedia:Spam#External link spamming);
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. ― Blaze Wolf^Talk_{Blaze Wolf#6545} 16:25, 21 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to blank out or remove portions of page content, templates, or other materials from Wikipedia without adequate explanation, as you did at Mo Pinel, you may be blocked from editing. ― Blaze Wolf^Talk_{Blaze Wolf#6545} 16:26, 21 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Conflict of interest

If you are in fact Pinel's first child (a claim Wikipedia has no proof for), then please stop attempting to edit the article directly, as you have what Wikipedia considers a conflict of interest. See WP:COI. I removed the mention of the name, education and career, as that sort of information is not usually included unless the son/daughter is subject of an article. David notMD (talk) 16:57, 21 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Happy to provide the proof - nobody asked for it and there is no obvious way to send it. Happy to not edit any more, though I believe the page was originally posted by one of Mo's other children. I am uncertain how the the conflict of interest rules apply in that situation. Is the original poster the only one who is allowed to edit the post and does not have a COI because of being the original poster?

Under the logic that allowed my name to be removed, can we also remove my mother's name since she is not the subject of the article? I had proposed the following, which seems to make sense and flows smoother than the current edit: "Pinel was married three times and had four children."

Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Albetha2!98 (talk • contribs)

There is a way to send it the info proving you are one of their children. First, contact info-en@wikimedia.org to find the best way to prove your identity. Then you can do what they ask to prove you are who you say they are. Also, the article creator is definitely not one of Pinel's other children (they are Binksternet who publicly discloses their real life identity) and therefore they don't have a COI. Please actually read WP:COI as it describes why having a COI might be an issue. ― Blaze Wolf^Talk_{Blaze Wolf#6545} 18:00, 21 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Blaze Wolf is correct: I am the person who originally added Mo Pinel to Wikipedia. Albetha2!98, I'm not related to Pinel at all; I never met him. Rather, I read a piece about him in Wired magazine and realized that he was famous enough for Wikipedia.

Wikipedia is supposed to be a summary of published information about a topic. The name of your mother was published in the New Jersey newspaper Courier-News in 1995. That source also supplies Pinel's full name. I don't think it serves the larger public to hide your mother's name. Binksternet (talk) 19:43, 21 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]