User talk:Mgottesfeld

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November 2013

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war. 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.

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You edited first. You are the one engaged in an edit war, not me. I'm preserving cited information.

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Your recent edits

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Conflict of interest with Logan River Academy‎

I saw from this post that you've identified yourself as Marty Gottesfeld, a community organizer and advocate seeking to shut down Logan River Academy. Firstly, I'd like to thank you for your disclosure, as the declaration of your connection to interests outside of Wikipedia is a form of transparency that helps your fellow editors to know what your point of view and intentions are with your edits. Unfortunately, this also shows that you may have difficulty remaining unbiased when editing any topics related to the academy. I know that some of your edits to the article have been challenged in the past, and while we have no policy preventing editors from participating at articles where they have a conflict of interest, any disruption that comes about from editing in those areas may lead to sanctions (such as bans restricting you from areas of the project or particular activities, or blocks preventing you from editing Wikipedia at all).

Therefore, I urge caution in any future participation either at Logan River Academy's article, or any other article where Logan River Academy is mentioned or otherwise involved. To avoid problems, such participation should be non-controversial in nature, such as reverting obvious vandalism, correcting typos, fixing links, or anything else listed here. You are not restricted from participating at the article's discussion page, on the contrary you are encouraged to participate in discussions there. If you have not done so yet, I suggest reading the plain and simple COI guide which is a well-written document designed to help any editors participating at Wikipedia with conflicts of interest, and designed specifically to help a person in your situation without all of the jargon and arcane terminology commonly found in most policies and guidelines. You can also ask for assistance at the conflict of interest noticeboard if you run into problems with other editors who object to any of your actions due to your COI. You can also ask me for assistance, I have worked with editors who have conflicts of interest for years now, helping them edit Wikipedia while avoiding disputes and other problems.

Having said all that, I don't see any problems with your recent edits for the most part. Some of your edits to the Logan River article were probably skewed a bit negatively, but your response to others who criticized you for those edits has been pretty positive. I see here where you agreed to try to find better sources to back up claims you had made in the article. I see here where you asked another editor to help you bring a more neutral tone to the article. So I truly am here to try to help you avoid future conflicts if I can and otherwise provide help, I'm not just trying to warn you or otherwise come down on you. My only specific caution is to try not to specifically bring up your Twitter or the advocacy web site address in your discussions, as that can be seen as promoting your cause on Wikipedia (which isn't allowed). Please let me know if you need any help, thank you. -- Atama頭 21:07, 18 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Logan River Academy

I'm leaving this same message for Bookkeeper123456. It looks like the two of you are involved in an edit war at this article. Please stop and discuss your point of view on the article's talk page. Anyone who continues to revert can be blocked. It is clear that you both disagree, but discussion should not and cannot be done in edit summaries. Other editors are watching that article because of the persistent disruption and continual disputes and so they may give opinions or act to moderate the dispute (I myself will be watching the dispute to be sure that it's constructive). -- Atama頭 16:14, 2 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]