User talk:Jelimuso

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October 2019

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Hoffman (Cleveland automobile) has been reverted.
Your edit here to Hoffman (Cleveland automobile) was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove links which are discouraged per our external links guideline. The external link(s) you added or changed (http://www.american-automobiles.com/Steam-Cars/Hoffman.html) is/are on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia.
If you were trying to insert an external link that does comply with our policies and guidelines, then please accept my creator's apologies and feel free to undo the bot's revert. However, if the link does not comply with our policies and guidelines, but your edit included other, constructive, changes to the article, feel free to make those changes again without re-adding the link. Please read Wikipedia's external links guideline for more information, and consult my list of frequently-reverted sites. For more information about me, see my FAQ page. Thanks! --XLinkBot (talk) 15:09, 22 October 2019 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Jelimuso. 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, 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. Thank you. AntiDionysius (talk) 19:43, 10 October 2023 (UTC)

Thank you very much for your guidance, AntiDionysius. I've added some sources that seem to be appearing correctly. I do not see anything that I've posted as a conflict of interest; the fact that I served as the artist's unpaid US agent for three decades gives me access to information unavailable through other sources. I am an educator and consider my participation here as an opportunity to further educate the world about this remarkable artist and her work. Jelimuso (talk) 19:54, 10 October 2023 (UTC)

The fact that you consider it an "opportunity to further educate the world about this remarkable artist and her work" is a demonstration of why you do indeed have a conflict of interest. Per the conflict of interest guideline, you should avoid editing the page. AntiDionysius (talk) 19:56, 10 October 2023 (UTC)

I disagree. If that were a conflict of interest, then posting on Wikipedia about anything within one's areas of expertise would be a conflict of interest. Wikipedia needs the input of area specialists, doesn't it? Jelimuso (talk) 20:01, 10 October 2023 (UTC)

Posting on a topic on which one has expertise and writing about a person you have/had a personal relationship are two different things. One of the key differences is that one is covered by the Wikipedia conflict of interest policy. AntiDionysius (talk) 20:13, 10 October 2023 (UTC)