User talk:Icareaboutart

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Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Icareaboutart. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places, or things you have written about in the article Sharon Christian, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic, and it is important when editing Wikipedia articles that such connections be completely transparent. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. In particular, we ask that you please:

avoid editing or creating articles related to you and your family, friends, school, company, club, or organization, as well as any competing companies' projects or products;
instead, you are encouraged to propose changes on the Talk pages of affected article(s) (see the {{request edit}} template);
when discussing affected articles, disclose your COI (see WP:DISCLOSE);
avoid linking to the Wikipedia article or to the website of your organization in other articles (see WP:SPAM);
exercise great caution so that you do not violate Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID).

Please take a few moments to read and review Wikipedia's policies regarding conflicts of interest, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, sourcing and autobiographies. Thank you. Lemongirl942 (talk) 01:01, 1 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thank-you Lemongirl942 for the note. I appreciate that conflict of interest could be a problem. I am not related to Sharon Christian in any way whatsoever. I work for the National Institutes of Health as a scientist. I have disclosed my interest in Christian's work on the delete page, and I invite you to read it carefully as I have already addressed the COI concern. Icareaboutart (talk) 00:47, 2 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

September 2016

Please do not delete or edit legitimate talk page comments, as you did at User talk:MBisanz. Such edits are disruptive and appear to be vandalism. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. Bbb23 (talk) 01:41, 7 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Bbb23:: I replied on your talk page; note that the comment I edited was my own. I thought I was allowed to edit my own comments. Apparently not. Icareaboutart (talk) 02:27, 10 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I'll explain what you're allowed to do and what you're not allowed to do, although I attempted to do that in my edit summary, IIRC. First example. You post a comment to a user's Talk page. You change your mind, and before the other user has responded, you remove the comment. That is okay. Second example. You post a comment to a user's Talk page. They respond to you. You don't think what you originally said is relevant or whatever, and you remove your comment and the user's response. That is not acceptable. Once the user has responded, you can't remove the section. You can however post a comment why you think your original comments are no longer important, but only the user who owns the Talk page can remove it if they wish to do so.--Bbb23 (talk) 02:33, 10 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

BTW, what you did was not vandalism, and I apologize for labeling it as such.--Bbb23 (talk) 02:35, 10 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Bbb23: OK! that makes sense. Thanks for clarifying. Icareaboutart (talk) 02:39, 10 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]