User talk:Mmarkham2

Edit-warring and BLP violations

Your recent editing history shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war. To resolve the content dispute, please do not revert or change the edits of others when you are reverted. Instead of reverting, please use the talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. The best practice at this stage is to discuss, not edit-war. See BRD for how this is done. If discussions reach an impasse, you can then post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection.

Being involved in an edit war can result in your being blocked from editing—especially if you violate the three-revert rule, which states that an editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Undoing another editor's work—whether in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material each time—counts as a revert. Also keep in mind that while violating the three-revert rule often leads to a block, you can still be blocked for edit warring—even if you don't violate the three-revert rule—should your behavior indicate that you intend to continue reverting repeatedly.. Snooganssnoogans (talk) 14:14, 19 September 2018 (UTC)

Mark Levin

Please stop reverting Snooganssnoogans (talk · contribs) undo edits. You need to discuss the changes to the article on the talk page. Consider this your WP:3RV warning --intelati^talk 17:29, 19 September 2018 (UTC)

Response from MMarkham2: Not sure how anyone is supposed to edit an article that is being protected by an obviously biased individual. Even small edits were removed that were 100% factually-based. No explanations.

When a editor is reverted, It is important to take a pause and work out the difference on the talk pages. I still haven't seen you discuss your thoughts on the article. I am a fan of Mark Levin, hell, I separated and created The Mark Levin Show. --intelati^talk 21:15, 19 September 2018 (UTC)

Post-final warning

Join the discussion on the article talk page or you'll find yourself blocked from editing! Favonian (talk) 17:29, 19 September 2018 (UTC)

Conflict of interest in Wikipedia

Hi Mmarkham2. I spend time working on conflict of interest issues here in Wikipedia, along with my regular editing. I am not an administrator. Your edits to date are promotional with respect to Mark Levin. It is hard to tell if you are a fan of his, or have some relationship with him. Lots of people come to Wikipedia with some sort of conflict of interest and are not aware of how the editing community defines and manages conflict of interest. I'm giving you notice of our Conflict of Interest guideline and Terms of Use, and will have some comments and requests for you below.

Response from MMarkham2: I have no conflict of interest. I'm not sure exactly what was so terrible about the edits. I can point out half of the page which is biased against this individual. I can also point to the individual who has been undoing my edits as extremely subjective in his postings.

Hello, Mmarkham2. 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 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.

Comments and requests

Wikipedia is a widely-used reference work and managing conflict of interest is essential for ensuring the integrity of Wikipedia and retaining the public's trust in it. Unmanaged conflicts of interest can also lead to people behaving in ways that violate our behavioral policies and cause disruption in the normal editing process. Managing conflict of interest well, also protects conflicted editors themselves - please see WP:Wikipedia is in the real world, and Conflict-of-interest editing on Wikipedia for some guidance and stories about people who have brought bad press upon themselves through unmanaged conflict of interest editing.

As in academia, COI is managed here in two steps - disclosure and a form of peer review. Please note that there is no bar to being part of the Wikipedia community if you want to be involved in articles where you have a conflict of interest; there are just some things we ask you to do (and if you are paid, some things you need to do).

Disclosure is the most important, and first, step. While I am not asking you to disclose your identity (anonymity is strictly protecting by our WP:OUTING policy) would you please disclose if you have some connection with Levin, directly or through a third party (e.g. a PR agency or the like)? You can answer how ever you wish (giving personally identifying information or not), but if there is a connection, please disclose it, and if you are editing for pay or the expectation of being paid, you must disclose that. After you respond (and you can just reply below), if it is relevant I can walk you through how the "peer review" part happens and then, if you like, I can provide you with some more general orientation as to how this place works. Please reply here, just below, to keep the discussion in one place. Thanks! Jytdog (talk) 18:12, 19 September 2018 (UTC)

(talk) - There is no connection with Mr. Levin, other than having listened to his radio program and being very familiar with his material. More than half of the information currently on his page is misinformation and/or biased. Many of the sources are from left-leaning organizations which are cited and referenced to smear the reputation of the individual. I find it appalling that the individual who continues to undo edits I've made is well-known for being anti-Conservative anti-Republican by looking at his "contributions". It seems they are on a mission to re-write history. The page as it stands is extremely biased. MMarkham2 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mmarkham2 (talk • contribs) 19:19, 19 September 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for replying! Quick note on the logistics of discussing things on Talk pages, which are essential for everything that happens here. In Talk page discussions, we "thread" comments by indenting (see WP:THREAD) - when you reply to someone, you put a colon in front of your comment, which the Wikipedia software will render into an indent when you save your edit; if the other person has indented once, then you indent twice by putting two colons in front of your comment, which the WP software converts into two indents, and so on, and when that gets ridiculous you reset back to the margin (or "outdent") by putting this {{od}} in front of your comment. Threading/indenting also allows you to make it clear if you are also responding to something that someone else responded to if there are more than two people in the discussion; in that case you would indent the same amount as the person just above you in the thread. I hope that all makes sense. And at the end of the comment, please "sign" by typing exactly four (not 3 or 5) tildas "~~~~" which the WP software converts into a date stamp and links to your talk and user pages when you save your edit. That is how we know who said what to whom and when.

Please be aware that threading and signing are fundamental etiquette here, as basic as "please" and "thank you", and continually failing to thread and sign communicates rudeness, and eventually people may start to ignore you (see here).

I know this is unwieldy, but this is the software environment we have to work on. Sorry about that. Will reply on the substance in a second... Jytdog (talk) 19:39, 19 September 2018 (UTC)

Thanks again for your reply. This thread is about your behavior. Please don't discuss other people or the content.

It is clear you are a fan of Levin - thanks for acknowledging that.

In your urgency to improve the page, you violated several of our content and behavioral policies. This is what happens, very commonly, when people come to Wikipedia who are passionate, and don't really understand how we work here.

Please, please slow down. Please consider having a read of User:Jytdog/How, which I wrote for people like you, who are in a hurry but don't really understand how this place works. You really should get grounded on what we do here, how, and why, before you go back to the Levin page.

Please also be sure to read the policy WP:YESPOV, and the very helpful essay, WP:ADVOCACY.

When you are done, if you have any questions, please let me know -- I would be happy to talk. Jytdog (talk) 19:44, 19 September 2018 (UTC)