User talk:Johncarp

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December 2016

Please do not add or change content, as you did at Just a Closer Walk with Thee, without citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. Magnolia677 (talk) 12:06, 31 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Conflict of interest

Hello, Magnolia677. Thank you for your help and your interest in 100% credibility in this and all articles. As a longtime observer of the subject's career and the subject's artistic achievements, I was sincerely attempting in 100% of the content, to provide content from verifiable sources independent of the subject. Virtually 95% of all the content is taken directly (not a single variation from the published books) from passages of 2 books sourced in the references and written by historians John Mark Dempsey and Jean Boyd. I'm not sure how to cut-and-paste from the actual 2 books, but if this will help Wikipedia Committee to not flag in this instance, I'll attempt to learn. If I previously (before removal) made a reference to any site (such as a purchase site/etc.) that is not neutral, my apologies. I had thought I was providing a footnoted reference to a site that had pertinent information. I will make sure in the future not to include any non-neutral or purchase sites, thank you for pointing this out. Johncarp (talk) 08:40, 1 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Johncarp. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places, or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic, and it is important when editing Wikipedia articles that such connections be completely transparent. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. In particular, we ask that you please:

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Please take a few moments to read and review Wikipedia's policies regarding conflicts of interest, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, sourcing and autobiographies. You appear to have a close connection with the pay side http://www.theconnextion.com/artgreenhaw Magnolia677 (talk) 15:21, 31 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]