User talk:Philosophical Symmetry

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Philosophical Symmetry. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the page Alphonso Lingis, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI 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, company, organization or competitors;
• propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (see the {{request edit}} template);
• disclose your COI when discussing affected articles (see WP:DISCLOSE);
• 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 must 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 WP:PAID).

Also please note that editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 01:35, 3 November 2018 (UTC)

You have an obvious conflict of interest and you must declare it. If you work directly or indirectly for an organisation, or otherwise are acting on its behalf, you are very strongly discouraged from attempting to write an article at all. If you are paid directly or indirectly by the organisation you are writing about, you are required by the Wikimedia Terms of Use to disclose your employer, client and affiliation. You can post such a mandatory disclosure to your user page at User:Philosophical Symmetry. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Philosophical Symmetry|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}. If you are being compensated, please provide the required disclosure. Note that editing with a COI is discouraged, but permitted as long as it is declared (you should use WP:Edit requests on the articles talk page if you are editing beyond removing vandalism or copyediting though). Concealing a COI can lead to a block. Please do not edit further until you respond to this message. HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 01:47, 3 November 2018 (UTC)

How to move on

Thank you for admitting your connection with Alphonso Lingis here however that is not how you declare your conflict of interest. You need to follow the steps above such as declaring your conflict of interest and using the talk page. Your edits so far have not followed our neutral point of view policy which they will need to follow if you want them to be added. For example, using words like "unique" or other words that show a personal opinion do not follow a neutral point of view. Saying that "previous depictions of his work have been laughable" is not an excuse for not following the steps above. Please keep in mind that while you can make WP:Edit requests on Talk:Alphonso Lingis, it is strongly recommended that if you have a conflict of interest you do not edit this page. HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk)

Recent edits to Nerd (disambiguation)

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that you made a change to an article, Nerd (disambiguation), but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so! If you need guidance on referencing, please see the referencing for beginners tutorial, or if you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you! ^{Babymissfortune} 16:54, 12 December 2018 (UTC)

How Wikipedia works

...is very simple though often misunderstood: Wikipedia editors are like cow stomachs, who chew the cud, regurgitating content the cow has already eaten up, and turning it into cream. What we chew on is material found in secondary sources--your analysis of the philosopher's style or even the content of his books is not allowed, since what we do is regurgitate secondary, published material. Even "unique" counts as original research. Thank you, Drmies (talk) 02:56, 29 December 2018 (UTC)

December 2018

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to violate Wikipedia's no original research policy by adding your personal analysis or synthesis into articles, you may be blocked from editing. Drmies (talk) 02:59, 29 December 2018 (UTC)

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you vandalize Wikipedia, as you did at Alphonso Lingis. Drmies (talk) 03:17, 29 December 2018 (UTC)

March 2019

Please do not add or change content, as you did at The Matrix, 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. Drmies (talk) 02:02, 11 March 2019 (UTC)

• No apology necessary. I didn't realize I had warned you before about that Lingis article. But I'm sorry, this is not a negotiation--the Lingis article is a BLP and need to meet these standards. The content you added was not neutral (promotional) and lacked reliable secondary sources: we cannot have that on Wikipedia, where neutrality and the use of reliable sources is paramount. Thank you, Drmies (talk) 02:35, 11 March 2019 (UTC)

February 2020

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for advertising or promotion. From your contributions, this seems to be your only purpose.

If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please read the guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text below the block notice on your talk page: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}.  Doug Weller talk 08:43, 9 February 2020 (UTC)