User talk:Cristian at the US District Court

COI notice[edit]

Welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your username, "USdistrictcourt", may not comply with our username policy. Please note that you may not use a username that represents the name of a company, group, organization, product, service, or website. Examples of usernames that are not allowed include "XYZ Company", "MyWidgetsUSA.com", and "Foobar Museum of Art". However, you are permitted to use a username that contains such a name if it identifies you individually, such as "Sara Smith at XYZ Company", "Mark at WidgetsUSA", or "FoobarFan87".

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I'Ve renamed the user. --Martin Urbanec (talk) 18:45, 2 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Tony N. Leung has been accepted[edit]

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James-the-Charizard (talk to me!) (contribs) 14:34, 25 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome![edit]

Welcome to Wikipedia, Cristian at the US District Court! Thank you for your contributions. I am James-the-Charizard and I have been editing Wikipedia for some time, so if you have any questions, feel free to leave me a message on my talk page. You can also check out Wikipedia:Questions or type {{help me}} at the bottom of this page. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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Managing a conflict of interest[edit]

Hello, Cristian at the US District Court. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the page Patrick J. Schiltz, 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. Please read carefully the information about "Conflict of interest" and "Paid editing": if you are editing wikipedia as part of your employment, you must declare this and follow Wikipedia's rules. PamD 17:23, 4 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hello User:PamD. Thank you for bringing this to my attention. As per the Wikipedia rules I have updated my user page to explain my position with the court(Intern) and the purpose of my edits, which I will go into more detail here. I apologize about not added user information earlier and for not making myself aware of the guidelines related to paid editors sooner, but I assure you that I joined Wikipedia with the goal of being as transparent about my affiliations as possible (E.g. my user name). Moving forward with edits I will follow these guidelines carefully.

I hear and understand your concern about an unintentional bias I may have towards the subjects who I have made edits about. Given that, I have been cognizant of this concern and because of it, I have worked hard to cite the articles I have written and verify the information I post. The reason I began making edits to the Judges' pages was the concern over inaccurate information. First and foremost, some of the content posted about the Judges' was out of date. It was a disservice to the public who would be given inaccurate information due to the necessary updates not being made. Secondly, there was information about the Judges that were false, or inaccurate. These inaccuracies were about birth year, graduation year, what committees they may be a part of and other various topics. I corrected these as well as added other verifiable information and works done by the Judges.

I would like to be clear that although I am employed by the court, none of the changes I have made were for monetary gain. This was a side project requested because of the state of the Wikipedia pages. I have tried my best to maintain an unbiased approach to the posts I have made to Wikipedia and this can be seen in the work that I have done. Nothing in the page edits are to endorse the Judges for any position, to promote the court, or to boast. The purpose of the updates has always been to preserve the history of those who sit on the bench of the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota and to provide the public with accurate, verifiable information about public servants.

Thank you again for reaching out regarding this. I apologize for not adhering to the guidelines strictly and moving forward I will insure to do this. Given all this, is there anything I should do to the current edits to insure they are not removed and to make clear to others my affiliation? Cristian at the US District Court (talk) 18:56, 4 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

PamD, should the article talk pages be tagged with connected contributor or connected contributor paid? AngusWOOF (bark • sniff) 21:48, 21 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]