User talk:BenSalo

Nomination of Scott Mead for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Scott Mead is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Scott Mead until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. SmartSE (talk) 20:56, 14 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, BenSalo. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you have an external relationship with some of the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest or close connection to the subject.

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For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Thank you. SmartSE (talk) 13:58, 20 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. I wonder if you saw my last massage in the deletion discussion. All I was doing is trying to contribute to Wikipedia, and I'm not personally familiar with Scott Mead. Since I already edited the entry before, it seemed relevant to try and help, after seeing it was nominated for deletion. I spent a fair amount of time on this edit, and it is disappointing to get this kind of response straight away. If you're not happy with my edits, you are free to delete them. However, I don't see the point of keeping the entry up, with those specific edit requests, if you're already convinced that it should be removed. Can you please comment? BenSalo (talk) 14:17, 20 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

- Right... The article was written by single purpose accounts before and has been edited by his PA this time. Two years ago you "corrected education info" which as you didn't include a source strongly indicates you were in personal contact. Then when you rewrote it, you managed to omit the only actual reliable information about him relating to the theft by his PA and again included information which isn't available anywhere else online. SmartSE (talk) 16:15, 20 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]