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== Managing a conflict of interest ==
[[File:Information.svg|25px|alt=Information icon]] Hello, NickySpence. We [[Wikipedia:Welcoming committee/Welcome to Wikipedia|welcome]] your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things [[Special:Contributions/NickySpence|you have written about]] in the page [[Nicky Spence]], 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 '''[[Wikipedia:Conflict of interest|conflict of interest guideline]]''' and [[Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations|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 {{tl|request edit}} template);
* '''disclose''' your conflict of interest  when discussing affected articles (see [[Wikipedia:Conflict of interest#How to disclose a COI|WP:DISCLOSE]]);
*'''avoid linking''' to your organization's website in other articles (see [[Wikipedia:Spam|WP:SPAM]]);
*'''do your best''' to comply with Wikipedia's [[Wikipedia:Core content policies|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 [[Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure|WP:PAID]]). 

Also please note that editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted.  Thank you.<!-- THE FOLLOWING CATEGORY SHOULD BE REMOVED IF THE USER IS BLOCKED, OR IT IS DECIDED THAT THIS USER DOES NOT HAVE A COI, OR THIS TEMPLATE HAS BEEN IN PLACE FOR A WHILE WITH NO ACTION. -->{{#ifexpr: ({{CURRENTTIMESTAMP}} - 20190201135908) < 5000000000 | [[Category:User talk pages with conflict of interest notices|{{PAGENAME}}]] |  }}<!-- Template:uw-coi --> [[User:Kb03|Kb03]] ([[User talk:Kb03|talk]]) 13:59, 1 February 2019 (UTC)

== Your edits to [[Nicky Spence]] ==

Please stop adding promotional material to this article and especially material copied from other websites. It is a copyright violation and repeated instances of this can result in you being blocked. I see you have already been cautioned about inappropriate editing with a conflict of interest. However, you continue to persist in this behaviour rather than discussing these issues on the talk page of the article. Per the guidelines at [[Wikipedia:Conflict of interest]], you should declare your conflict of interest and ''propose'' additions or changes on [[Talk:Nicky Spence]] for neutral editors to evaluate and implement ''if'' they are considered appropriate. You could also bring your request(s) to the attention of members of WikiProject Opera [[Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Opera|here]]. Please refrain from adding any further material directly to the article.  

On a personal note, I have long experience here (13 years) dealing with numerous opera singers and classical musicians and/or their agents who have attempted to turn their Wikipedia articles into  promotional vehicles for themselves. That is what your personal website and your agent's website are for. Not only are your attempts to do this in violation of Wikipedia's guidelines and policies, they also ''seriously'' detract from the subject's image rather than enhancing it. Any neutral reader coming across the stuff you are pasting into [[Nicky Spence]] can see immediately that it is PR hype added by the subject or their agent, and frankly, reeks of desperation. Seriously, {{u|NickySpence}}, cut it out. [[User:Voceditenore|Voceditenore]] ([[User talk:Voceditenore|talk]]) 08:10, 2 February 2019 (UTC)

:I'm copying below [https://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3AVoceditenore&type=revision&diff=881539880&oldid=881430522 your comment] from my talk page, as I prefer to keep conversations in one place.

::{{green|Thank you for your considered edits of this page. It was very out of date so I simply wanted to add the correct facts. I tried to add all of my international work and discography but perhaps I did it wrong. There is possible citing and facts available for all of the work.}}

:You're welcome. As for what you "did wrong"... you wrote about yourself. You then compounded this by adding blatantly promotional and copyvio text. You were repeatedly told about these problems with links to guidance pages, yet you continued anyway. You did not once engage with editors on [[Talk:Nicky Spence]] and repeatedly removed maintenance tags from the article [https://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?limit=50&title=Special%3AContributions&contribs=user&target=NickySpence&namespace=0&tagfilter=&start=2019-02-02&end=2019-02-03]. This is simply not on. I have since removed them after extensive copyediting and referencing, but I can assure you that if you make further attempts to edit that article ''in any way'' rather than proposing edits on the talk page, the {{tl|COI}} tag is going right back up. Please note also that editing while logged out to evade scrutiny and continue edit-warring, e.g. [https://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Nicky_Spence&type=revision&diff=881438886&oldid=881427992] is [[Wikipedia:Sock puppetry|completely unacceptable]]. [[User:Voceditenore|Voceditenore]] ([[User talk:Voceditenore|talk]]) 17:55, 3 February 2019 (UTC)