User talk:Schekysquall

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Schekysquall. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Randy Velischek, 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, clients, or competitors;
propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the {{edit COI}} 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 Wikipedia:Spam § External link spamming);
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. Stop adding unsourced content to Randy Velischek. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Isaidnoway (talk) 20:55, 13 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello-I said No.

Thank you for your input. I see you are an accomplished Wikipedia editor, although the edits that you have made to my personal page, as well as life after hockey-were in fact erroneously edited. I understand that this is a public forum, however when I was made aware that misleading and potentially hurtful information was being written, I corrected it. Is correcting my personal information COI.. and if so, to whom? It is a bit frustrating that I’m not able to be the administrator of my own page.

I am open to your suggestions.

Thank you again. Schekysquall (talk) 23:42, 13 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You do not own your article. You can not add unsourced information to any Wikipedia article. Your children and step-children are not public figures, so we we err on the side of caution and privacy. The presumption in favor of privacy is strong in the case of family members of articles' subjects. Names of family members who are not also notable public figures must be removed from an article if they are not properly sourced. This is our policy and it is designed to protect you and your family.

Since you have an admitted conflict of interest, you should disclose that on your user page. You should also be making edit requests using this template - {{edit COI}}. Go to the article's Talk page and click the New section tab. In the large empty text area, type {{edit COI}}. Underneath this, write out the specific changes you want made to the article. Volunteers are less likely to respond to unclear or open-ended requests. You must provide a reliable source for the changes. Click on the Show preview button and have a look to make sure the request appears the way you want it to. If you wish to make any corrections or additions, you may do so in the edit box below the preview; preview your post as many times as you wish, and when you are satisfied, click on the Publish changes button. Then a volunteer will look at your edit request and implement the changes.

If you want to request your wife's name be added to the article, that is fine, if you want to request to add how many children you have to the article, that is fine, but their names are not relevant as they are not public figures. If you want to add where you live to the article, that is fine. But please remember, you must provide a source for this information, otherwise, it will continue to be removed, and it may result in you getting blocked from editing the article. Thanks. Isaidnoway (talk) 07:06, 14 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

January 2024

Please stop. If you continue to assume ownership of articles, as you did at Randy Velischek, you may be blocked from editing. Behavior such as this is regarded as disruptive, and is a violation of Wikipedia policy. Isaidnoway (talk) 20:57, 13 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop. If you continue to add unsourced or poorly sourced content, as you did at Randy Velischek, you may be blocked from editing. Rehsarb (talk) 00:08, 14 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you assume ownership of articles, as you did at Randy Velischek. Isaidnoway (talk) 06:18, 14 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Question for administrator

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Hello, I am attempting to correct my personal life headline. In December an anonymous editor erased my accurate personal life on Randy Velischek’s Wikipedia page and published inaccurate information. I reached out to one of the Wikipedia editors of my page, ‘I said no’ and explained that it I wished for my accurate personal life to be republished. The ‘I said no’ Wikipedia editor then instructed me to respectfully disclose that it is a COI and request that the page bearing my name, include my accurate personal life information. PERSONAL LIFE ‘ Randy and his wife Sharon Velischek reside in northern NJ & Québec CA.

Thank you Schekysquall (talk) 06:14, 22 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It would be more accurate for you to think of it as the Wikipedia article about you, and not "your page". Even as the subject you have no more rights to it than any other editor. That said, your input is welcome. Isaidnoway already informed you of the policies and procedures regarding editing about yourself and your family. I would also suggest that you read the autobiography policy. Please use the edit request process on the article talk page(Talk:Randy Velischek).

Please also see the strict policy we have regarding editing about living people(whether it is yourself or not); all information about living people must be properly sourced to a published reliable source that can be verified. Your word is insufficient no matter how accurate the information is. 331dot (talk) 09:00, 22 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I suppose that the information the ‘ I said no’ editor gave me is not correct? Just trying to make this simple and accurate. The inaccurate information was hurtful to my family and loved ones as I stated to other editors. I was advised to go about it this way. Although it is not my page -it unfortunately has my name & life information publicly published so it is, of course of my concern to keep it accurate. It is quite frustrating to have been targeted in such a manner. Thank you for your contribution. Many colleagues who have not had this issue. I think the legalities of this is now over my head. Shall seek advice. Thank you. Schekysquall (talk) 13:17, 22 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

We're willing to discuss any concerns you have about the article. You just need to do so as I advised above.

If your colleagues have done exactly as you attempted, they just got lucky that they were undetected. 331dot (talk) 15:06, 22 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]