User talk:Powelljiml

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Re proper citation

Thank you for your recent edits at Scientific consensus on climate change. Please note that, per WP:CITEVAR, citations at this article (as at nearly all articles) should be templated. If you examine the other citations in the article you can probably figure how to do that. Ask if you have questions or need assistance.

A possible consideration: were there actually zero instances in those 11,600+ articles? I ask because many people round-off less than 0.5% (which in this case could be as many as 50 articles) to "0%", which is not the same as absolutely zero. You might consider some clarification on that point. ♦ J. Johnson (JJ) (talk) 21:15, 22 November 2019 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Powelljiml. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page James L. Powell, 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);
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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.

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In addition, if you are changing the content of an article, either adding or removing words, it is not a minor edit. Please do not check the minor edit box unless it is an edit that does not change the content of an article. Daniel Quinlan (talk) 21:45, 23 November 2023 (UTC)

Thank you Daniel. I am not sure if this is in response to my request to protect my James L. Powell page. In any case, that is my personal biography page. Surely other people should not be able to change such a page, or least not without the subject's approval. Powelljiml (talk) 19:21, 24 November 2023 (UTC)

This warning is in response to your edits of the James L. Powell article. As spelled out on the Ownership of content page:

All Wikipedia pages and articles are edited collaboratively by the Wikipedian community of volunteer contributors. No one, no matter what, has the right to act as though they are the owner of a particular article (or any part of it). Even a subject of an article, be that a person or organization, does not own the article, nor has any right to dictate what the article may or may not say.

It's a biographical article, not an autobiographical article. I would strongly recommend reading the above links as well as the Ownership of content page. Daniel Quinlan (talk) 02:02, 25 November 2023 (UTC)