User talk:Blevenberg

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WP:MEAT

Blevenberg, you wrote here that you are his friend and he summoned you to Wikipedia to help him edit his article and to argue with Vrac. Please know that this is a violation of meatpuppeting, which is against Wikipedia policy. Please stop doing that. If you follow the COI procedure as I described below, and slow down and start asking questions and try to learn again as I describe below, everything should be OK. Please slow down though. Thanks. Jytdog (talk) 23:20, 7 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Jytdog, I'm here because Fred hails from the Vietnam era and needs someone (me) with slightly better proficiency at learning and using this interface to correct/update/verify/cite the content removed from his page. I see you reverted. I'm reverting back, I think you'll like the edits I've otherwise made, and have for the time being removed the third paragraph that might need better citations. There should be no need to remove any of the links, they are all verified as of 15 minutes ago. 19:00, 9/7/2015 (CDT)

Thank you for replying!! whew. so happy you are finally talking. look. I took a long time out of my day, to write you a bunch of advice here. Please stop trying to "fix" the article and read what I have written here to get better grounded in what Wikipedia is, and how it works. I have been writing "please" and "thank you" a lot here, but you really need to stop and read and learn. Editors who charge ahead here end up getting blocked - please don't continue as you have been. I don't want to have administrative action taken against you. Thanks. Jytdog (talk) 00:26, 8 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Conflict of interest in Wikipedia

Hi Blevenberg I work on conflict of interest issues here in Wikipedia. Your edits to date are all about Fredric Alan Maxwell and as mentioned above, FredtheBiped2 here that you are his friend and he summoned him to Wikipedia to help him with the article about him. I'm giving you notice of our Conflict of Interest guideline and Terms of Use, and will have some comments and requests for you below.

Hello, Blevenberg. 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.

All editors are required to comply with Wikipedia's neutral point of view content policy. People who are very close to a subject often have a distorted view of it, which may cause them to inadvertently edit in ways that make the article either too flattering or too disparaging. People with a close connection to a subject are not absolutely prohibited from editing about that subject, but they need to be especially careful about ensuring their edits are verified by reliable sources and writing with as little bias as possible.

If you are very close to a subject, here are some ways you can reduce the risk of problems:

Avoid or exercise great caution when editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with.
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Exercise great caution so that you do not accidentally breach Wikipedia's content policies.

Please familiarize yourself with relevant content policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, verifiability of information, and autobiographies. Note that Wikipedia's terms of use require disclosure of your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation.

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.

Comments and requests

Wikipedia is a widely-used reference work and managing conflict of interest is essential for ensuring the integrity of Wikipedia and retaining the public's trust in it. As in academia, COI is managed here in two steps - disclosure and a form of peer review. Please note that there is no bar to being part of the Wikipedia community if you have a conflict of interest; there are just some things we ask you to do (and if you are paid, some things you need to do).

With regard to disclosure, as I noted above that is already done. You have a conflict of interest with regard to the article about Maxwell.

With regard to the "peer review" piece - this may seem a bit strange to you at first, but if you think about it, it will make sense. In Wikipedia, editors can immediately publish their work, with no intervening publisher or standard peer review -- you can just create an article, click save, and viola there is a new article, and you can go into any article, make changes, click save, and done. No intermediaries - no editor, no publisher. What we ask editors who have a COI to do, is a) if you create an article, submit it through the WP:AFC process so it can be reviewed before it publishes. b) And if you want to change content in an existing article on a topic where you have a COI, we ask you to propose content on the Talk page for others to review and implement before it goes live, instead of doing it directly yourself. You can make the edit request easily - and provide notice to the community of your request - by using the "request edit" template. I made that easy for you by adding a section to the beige box at the top of the Talk page - there is a link at "click here" in that section -- if you click that, the Wikipedia software will automatically format a section in which you can make your request.

Will you please agree to follow the peer review processes going forward? Thanks! Jytdog (talk) 23:22, 7 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Additional notes

I've provided you with the standard "welcome" message at the top of this Talk page. Please know that Wikipedia is not like any other place on the internet. While this is "the encyclopedia that anyone can edit", it is not a wild west. The WP community has developed a whole forest of policies and guidelines that govern article content and editor behavior; the welcome message above provides an introduction to them. Please also know that editing Wikipedia is a privilege, not a right. We take editing privileges away from editors who don't abide by the policies and guidelines and who refuse to learn about them. We do of course make allowances for new editors who try to learn - we want to grow the Wikipedia community.

You are new here and don't know much about those policies and guidelines. Rather than editing aggressively, please slow down and ask more questions. I'll be happy to help you, if you have any questions. But you have to try to learn. Good luck. Jytdog (talk) 23:27, 7 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Quick note about talk page discussions

Quick note on Wikipedia logistics when discussing things on an article Talk page. In Talk page discussions, we "thread" comments by indenting - when you reply to someone, put your comment under theirs. To thread, you put a colon ":" in front of your comment, and the WP software converts that into an indent; if the other person has indented once, then you indent twice by putting two colons "::" which the WP software converts into two indents, and when that gets ridiculous you reset back to the margin (or "outdent") by putting this {{od}} in front of your comment. This also allows you to make it clear if you are also responding to something that someone else responded to if there are more than two people in the discussion; in that case you would indent the same amount as the person just above you in the thread. I hope that all makes sense.

And at the end of the comment, please "sign" by typing exactly four (not 3 or 5) tildas "~~~~" which the WP software converts into a date stamp and links to your talk and user pages. That is how we know who said what. Please do this on all Talk pages going forward (you don't do that when editing an article, of course) Thanks. Jytdog (talk) 23:37, 7 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Edit war warning

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Fredric Alan Maxwell. Users are expected to collaborate with others, to avoid editing disruptively, and to try to reach a consensus rather than repeatedly undoing other users' edits once it is known that there is a disagreement.

Please be particularly aware that Wikipedia's policy on edit warring states:

Edit warring is disruptive regardless of how many reverts you have made.
Do not edit war even if you believe you are right.

If you find yourself in an editing dispute, use the article's talk page to discuss controversial changes; work towards a version that represents consensus among editors. You can post a request for help at an appropriate noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases it may be appropriate to request temporary page protection. If you engage in an edit war, you may be blocked from editing. Jytdog (talk) 23:40, 7 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Your recent edits

Hello and welcome to Wikipedia. When you add content to talk pages and Wikipedia pages that have open discussion (but never when editing articles), please be sure to sign your posts. There are two ways to do this. Either:

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Thank you. --SineBot (talk) 00:05, 8 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Sockpuppet investigation

Hi. An editor has opened an investigation into sockpuppetry by you. Sockpuppetry is the use of more than one Wikipedia account in a manner that contravenes community policy. The investigation is being held at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Blevenberg, where the editor who opened the investigation has presented their evidence. Please make sure you make yourself familiar with the guide to responding to investigations, and then feel free to offer your own evidence or to submit comments that you wish to be considered by the Wikipedia administrator who decides the result of the investigation. If you have been using multiple accounts (in a manner contrary to Wikipedia policy), please go to the investigation page and verify that now. Leniency is usually shown to those who promise not to do so again, or who did so unwittingly, but the abuse of multiple accounts is taken very seriously by the Wikipedia community.

Jbh ^Talk 15:59, 12 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I'll just offer that you have an article on sock puppets, and that I am not socko, who is mentioned in your article. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sock_puppet Just saying. Thanks. Blevenberg (talk) 16:48, 12 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

September 2015

This is your only warning; if you make personal attacks on other people again, as you did at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Fredric Alan Maxwell, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. Comment on content, not on other contributors or people. Diff of attack] Jbh ^Talk 16:29, 12 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

no, it was worth the one violation, thanks. And I'm not fred, btw. Blevenberg (talk) 16:41, 12 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for meat puppetry. If you think there are good reasons why you should be unblocked, you may appeal this block by first reading the guide to appealing blocks, then adding the following text below this notice: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}. Bbb23 (talk) 22:24, 12 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]