User talk:Wkalush

July 2021[edit]

Hello, I'm Materialscientist. I noticed that you made a change to an article, David Blaine, but you didn't provide a source. I’ve removed it for now, but if you’d like to include a citation to a reliable source and re-add it, please do so! If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. Materialscientist (talk) 17:07, 1 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

My corrections on my subject and personal friends are being reverted.[edit]

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I am trying to make corrections of fact on various pages and they keep being reverted. I run the Conjuring Arts Research Center in NYC conjuringarts.org and have produced many television shows and published many books on magic history. I knew Ricky Jay for 25 years and have known David Blaine for 30 yet my factual changes keep getting reverted by people who do not know the field. What is the solution to this problem?

I've posted a COI notice below for you to read carefully. At a minimum, you cannot edit the Blaine article directly. Instead, you must use the article Talk page to propose any changes to the article, all of which must be supported by reliable sources. Wikipedia is a complex place for a newcomer, so I warn you in advance it may be frustrating. At the same time, I must also inform you that if you have repeated difficulties, thereby causing disruption to the encyclopedia, you risk being blocked. One place you can seek assistance is the WP:Teahouse.--Bbb23 (talk) 16:02, 3 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Managing a conflict of interest[edit]

Hello, Wkalush. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page David Blaine, 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 or competitors;
propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the {{request edit}} 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 WP:Spam);
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. Bbb23 (talk) 15:58, 3 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Conflict of interest[edit]

To be clear, if the entry on one of my projects is utterly wrong I'm not allowed to fix it? And if editors who literally know nothing about the subject make egregious errors those are left for the public to believe as fact? Please confirm. Wkalush (talk) 19:36, 7 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Bbb23[edit]

Hello Bbb23, I understand you need to verify information. So can you explain what I did wrong when editing the Houdini page you reverted? The verification that he was a pilot and film star are on the very Wikipedia page!! But that isn't sufficient to amend the basic description of him? Please help me understand what sort of citation is sufficient if Wikipedia isn't. Thank you. Wkalush (talk) 20:19, 7 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]