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Lois Greenfield

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Happy editing! 2601:188:180:B8E0:A834:6250:2E50:37AC (talk) 15:42, 19 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, NewYorkPhotog. 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 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:

avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization or competitors;
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In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. 2601:188:180:B8E0:A834:6250:2E50:37AC (talk) 15:42, 19 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Notice of Conflict of interest noticeboard discussion

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard regarding a possible conflict of interest incident with which you may be involved. Thank you. 2601:188:180:B8E0:A834:6250:2E50:37AC (talk) 16:32, 19 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Managing a conflict of interest

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

avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization or competitors;
propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the {{request edit}} template);
disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see Wikipedia:Conflict of interest#How to disclose a COI);
avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see WP:Spam);
do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Chris Troutman (talk) 16:37, 19 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I read somewhere that many people online ignore what they perceive to be boilerplate messages

Hi. If you haven't noticed, the editing community is concerned that you're only trying to advertise Lois Greenfield‎ and you've made no admission of conflict of interest. Unless you have a discussion with us on the noticeboard linked above, we might recommend that you be blocked from editing and then we'll seek to delete the article you wrote. If you discuss the matter with us we might come to an understanding. Chris Troutman (talk) 20:52, 19 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Chris - I am not trying to make a conflict of interest. I wanted to add articles as sources on her work. If this is a COI, please let me know, and I will remove the edits that have been made to her page.— Preceding unsigned comment added by NewYorkPhotog (talk • contribs) 16:59, 19 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I would also like to note no money has changed hands with my making these edits. I simply wanted to add links to her work.— Preceding unsigned comment added by NewYorkPhotog (talk • contribs) 17:02, 19 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for replying! Please be sure to sign your comments. Please read WP:COI; it specifies that regardless of money changing hands, some editors may intrinsically have a conflict between who they are and our expectations here of editor objectivity. We can't allow people to change what Wikipedia says about them. How would the readers trust us? That said, what is your relationship to Lois? Chris Troutman (talk) 21:06, 19 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

No relation to Lois personally whatsoever; just noticed her page was missing information. If something needs to be removed, please let me know. I do not want the article to be considered biased. I apologize if I violated community guidelines/editor objectivity. - NewYorkPhotog

I attended a lecture one time, but I do not know lois personally. Please feel free to removed any edits you feel are biased/not strictly objective, and I do apologize for any error/trouble I have caused. I fact checked the years and articles and book information prior to making edits to the page. - NewYorkPhotog

I also promise to stop making edits to the page, as I do not want to cause further issue. - NewYorkPhotog