User talk:Evan Boone

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June 2017

Please do not remove maintenance templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Jermaine Rivers, without resolving the problem that the template refers to, or giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your removal of this template does not appear constructive, and has been reverted. Thank you. Melcous (talk) 14:46, 10 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Jermaine Rivers has been reverted.
Your edit here to Jermaine Rivers was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove links which are discouraged per our external links guideline. The external link(s) you added or changed (http://deviousmaids.wikia.com/wiki/Officer_Carter, http://deviousmaids.wikia.com/wiki/Officer_Carter) is/are on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. If the external link you inserted or changed was to an external Wiki, then please note that these links should generally not be included (see 'links to avoid' #12).
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Possible conflict of interest editing?

Hi Evan Boone, could you please explain your connection to Jermaine Rivers? I note that the article was created by an editor with the same name as the article's subject who was then warned about conflict of interest editing, and then your account was created and has made similar edits. I wanted to make sure you are aware of wikipedia's policy on multiple accounts and on editing with a conflict of interest and to ask you again to stop removing maintenance tags until issues have been dealt with - the article as it stands is still that created by the subject (i.e. an autobiography) and it is poorly referenced (one source and the link given does not actually have any content about Rivers; all the biographical information is unsourced). Thank you, Melcous (talk) 23:40, 10 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hi again Evan, thanks for your messages and I appreciate what you are trying to do, but you need to slow down and take some time to understand wikipedia's guidelines, particularly about verifiability and what makes a reliable source. I have removed all but one of the references you added to the article, most because they did not mention Rivers at all. References need to support the statements being made in the article, so they need to explicitly state the facts that the article claims, which these could obviously do not without mentioning him. IMDB is also not an acceptable reference as it is user-generated content. Even the one remaining reference is dubious because the only explicit mention of Rivers is the photo credit. Also, you have mentioned working on this article with you "colleagues" and as a "concerted effort" which while not necessarily a problem, does raise questions about conflict of interest editing and recruitment of editors (see here) which wikipedia has some guidelines about. Please take the time to read them and it would be great if you could explain why a group of colleagues would be editing an article together, noting that editing that is part of your job must be disclosed (See here). Thanks, Melcous (talk) 07:50, 12 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]