User talk:Loeckenhoff

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Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Loeckenhoff. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the page Corinna Löckenhoff, 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:

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Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Drm310 🍁 (talk) 21:37, 7 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

January 2020

This account has been blocked indefinitely from editing Wikipedia because the username, Loeckenhoff, matches the name of a well-known, living person.

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@Newslinger: - hi there, I've confirmed their identity through OTRS and are discussing COIs and such - any objections to unblocking? Nosebagbear (talk) 16:46, 8 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for confirming, Loeckenhoff and Nosebagbear! I have no objections at all. — Newslinger talk 21:10, 8 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Cool - I've unblocked Nosebagbear (talk) 21:13, 8 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks to both of you. [Loeckenhoff]

What would prefer happen with the article about you?

Am I correct in understanding that you would prefer to have the article about you deleted? With a stub with an ORCID ID as a secondary preference, and a longer article as a tertiary preference? I'm embarassed about the bureaucracy Wikipedia is making you wade through here. Plantdrew (talk) 03:48, 11 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

fwiw, Wikipedia policy in this area is set out at WP:BLPREQUESTDELETE. I have started Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Corinna Löckenhoff with a view to the deletion discussion being expedited as quickly as possible. hth --Tagishsimon (talk) 03:57, 11 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Plantdrew: @Tagishsimon: yes, my preference was deletion, but I leave it up to your wikipedia expertise whether a stub might better since a stub would hopefully discourage creation of another more elaborate post with more incorrect information in the future? This has been an interesting experience, I've been using (and donating to) Wikipedia for years, and I've always taken the info with a healthy grain of skepticism, but it's been interesting to learn how the "talk" pages work and I'll be consulting them more frequently in the future. Thanks!!!

Loeckenhoff (talk) 05:07, 11 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, feel free to come again. We probably will keep the article as is, based on the notability criteria that we have here. We never ask academics or any subjects for that matter for their permission. Let's say, that with this, we are lazy. :) If you feel discouraged, I would advise you not to donate any more money to us, as it might be a waste of your time and resources, but that will be my POV, so don't take it literally. :)--Biografer (talk) 21:11, 11 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Biografer: Actually, I'm fine how this worked out. With the added tweaks, the article looks great and by learning to work within the system I got a better appreciation of what goes on behind the scenes of an article. It's like with Churchill's quote about democracy being "the worst form of government except for all those other forms that have been tried". Wikipedia is the worst way of creating an encyclopedia except for all those other ways that have been tried.

Loeckenhoff (talk) 03:50, 13 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I'm glad your satisfied with the outcome. You really got the grand tour of Wikipedia bureaucracy; I hope the educational value of your experience made up for some of the hassle. 03:26, 14 January 2020 (UTC)