User talk:Eightyeightkeysandhands

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January 2020

One of your recent additions has been removed in whole or in part, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted material, including text or images from print publications or from other websites, without an appropriate and verifiable license. All such contributions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images—you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously and persistent violators of our copyright policy will be blocked from editing. See Wikipedia:Copying text from other sources for more information. 2601:188:180:B8E0:65F5:930C:B0B2:CD63 (talk) 21:39, 4 January 2020 (UTC)

Hello, Eightyeightkeysandhands. 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:

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Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. 2601:188:180:B8E0:65F5:930C:B0B2:CD63 (talk) 21:39, 4 January 2020 (UTC)

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:B8E0:65F5:930C:B0B2:CD63 (talk) 04:51, 5 January 2020 (UTC)

January 2020

Please do not remove maintenance templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Luis Alvarez Roure, without resolving the problem that the template refers to, or giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your removal of this template does not appear constructive, and has been reverted. Thank you. ThatMontrealIP (talk) 14:44, 5 January 2020 (UTC)

Hello. I am trying to fix the problem with the Alvarez Roure page, but I don't even know where to reply. I am a fairly new to wikipedia and lack experience. I do not have any connection with the subject I was trying to do the edits to improve the article. I am very sorry and I hope there is a way to fix the problem.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Eightyeightkeysandhands (talk • contribs)

• Lack of experience is understandable. However, many of your edits have been removed as copyright violations, and your sole interest here has been to promote a single subject, so claiming no connection doesn't sit with me; perhaps other editors will assume better faith. I'd suggest your best paths would be transparency, and to avoid editing content related to Mr. Roure. Thanks, 2601:188:180:B8E0:65F5:930C:B0B2:CD63 (talk) 15:12, 5 January 2020 (UTC)

mea culpa. I recognize the problem and because of my lack of expertise, I tried to improve the article using lines from public sources. I was not aware that that was a copyright violation. As soon as I saw the flag I tried to fix the article to the best of my capabilities. To be honest with you, it took me this long to find a way to reply to the messages. I hope the article is clean and the issue can be solved. I have no interest in editing further the article as I have caused problems. Thank you— Preceding unsigned comment added by Eightyeightkeysandhands (talk • contribs)

• Appreciated, though you still haven't been clear about your COI. Likewise, a connection to Cumminsjohn48 (talk · contribs) must be divulged. As for copyright issues, that refers to the direct copying or close paraphrasing of content from other sources. 2601:188:180:B8E0:65F5:930C:B0B2:CD63 (talk) 15:35, 5 January 2020 (UTC)

yes. Cumminsjohn48 was an account I created to try to fix the problem because I thought I was not supposed to fix the problem under my account name and I couldn't find a way to reply to the messages and to get into the discussion. I hope this clarifies it. again, no interest at all in damaging someone's reputation or Wikipedia's transparency. my apologies to whomever I have cause such inconveniences. And whatever changes I should revert I am willing to do so with your permission. Thanks— Preceding unsigned comment added by Eightyeightkeysandhands (talk • contribs)

• Regarding other accounts, what about Xavier Zev? Any others?ThatMontrealIP (talk) 16:51, 5 January 2020 (UTC)

I am not aware of that account. as I said, I created the Cummins account trying to solve the problem. I do not have any other accounts. thank you

are there any actions to take from my part or from any of the editors in order to clean the coi problem? Thank you

Can anyone help in cleaning the Coi tag? I can't do it since I created the issue. I have no intention or interest in editing the article again. ThanksEightyeightkeysandhands (talk) 16:06, 7 January 2020 (UTC)

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Thank you. ThatMontrealIP (talk) 16:59, 5 January 2020 (UTC)