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June 2017

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Michael DeLorenzo has been reverted.
Your edit here to Michael DeLorenzo was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove links which are discouraged per our external links guideline. The external link(s) you added or changed (https://www.facebook.com/https://www.facebook.com/mdelorenzo) is/are on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia.
If you were trying to insert an external link that does comply with our policies and guidelines, then please accept my creator's apologies and feel free to undo the bot's revert. However, if the link does not comply with our policies and guidelines, but your edit included other, constructive, changes to the article, feel free to make those changes again without re-adding the link. Please read Wikipedia's external links guideline for more information, and consult my list of frequently-reverted sites. For more information about me, see my FAQ page. Thanks! --XLinkBot (talk) 03:30, 29 June 2017 (UTC)

Thank you XLinkBot! I appreciate your comment as I learned something new. 09violet06 (talk) 18:17, 30 January 2018

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Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, 09violet06. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the article Michael DeLorenzo, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. Editing for the purpose of advertising or promotion is not permitted. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:

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---Hi Grayfell! I just wanted to address your comment about conflict of interest on my talk page. I started as an editor with Wikipedia in hopes to contribute my research capabilities to this knowledge community. The first article I chose was out of my personal interest. I found the article to have alot of issues which seems to be common themes of biographies in Wikipedia. The article needed a lot of help. I've been conducting extensive research to be able to provide content and reference to the subject matter. That is what I am hoping to do for my contribution to Wikipedia articles that might lack content. There is no conflict of interest because I have no connection or association with the subject matter except that I enjoyed a television show associated with the person in the past. I think biographies in general need a lot of work on Wikipedia and I hope I can do my part in the contribution. I also want to finish what I started and when I find new references of information I want to update the articles that I lend my research abilities to. I hope this clarifies any questions regarding my involvement in the article. Thank you! 09violet06 (talk) 18:09, 30 January 2018 (UTC)

Hello. First, I apologize for the redundant template. It appears you have already received this template in the past and had deleted it, so that was a mistake on my part.

As for having a conflict of interest, your thoroughness is appreciated, but you have been adding questionable sources and vaguely promotional material to the article, and have not substantially edited any other article in over a hundred edits spanning several months. Additionally, that article has several such "WP:SPAs", so I hope you can understand why these are red flags. As you've noticed, biographies need a lot of work, and one of the reasons they need work is because of undisclosed paid editing and other forms of spam. This is especially common among working media figures (motivational speakers being among the worst offenders, but that's a digression).

The best approach is to summarize reliable, independent sources. Instead of finding sources for every single item that's already in the article, find out what reliable, independent sources are saying, and consider trimming the rest out of the article. WP:PRIMARY sources sometimes usable, but are of limited value, especially in WP:BLP articles.

It appears that the article has an active talk page, so I would suggest participating there if you're dead-set on only contributing to this article. Otherwise, I encourage you to expand your horizons a bit.

As a technical note, I moved your comments on my talk page to the bottom of the page, per WP:BOTTOMPOST. The section you added your comment to was about an entirely unrelated issue, so it was unnecessarily confusing. Grayfell (talk) 02:48, 31 January 2018 (UTC)

—Hi Greyfell, Thank you for your comments. I’m glad you added the text back because I made an error in responding and wasn’t sure how to re-input the text for my response to be applicable. First time discovering talk page errors as you can see. So hopefully with your feed back I can improve my talk page involvement. So thank you! In regards to this article, I picked this article to start with and as you’ve mentioned it’s taking up a lot of time on the research. At first I pulled a lot of the information off the individual source but once I started finding more news source references I started to replace the single source references problem that I seemed to have first created. Also some of the reference were pre-existing prior to my involvement and I didn’t want to take that away from other contributors. So I found their sources and updated the reference text but your right, it’s not necessary the correct format. I’ll take your feed back into consideration and practice for my contributions. I do plan on expanding my editing contributions to other topics. Hopefully as I develop my profile I can be accepted as a serious editor to the Wikipedia community. I appreciate all your feed back in the process.09violet06 (talk) 9:55, 1 February 2018

January 2018

Please do not add unreferenced or poorly referenced information, especially if controversial, to articles or any other page on Wikipedia about living (or recently deceased) persons, as you did to Michael DeLorenzo ‎ . Thank you. --Ronz (talk) 20:22, 30 January 2018 (UTC)

Hi Ronz, Thank you for your comment. I will look over the reference materials that you've identified for me. Thank you for that. It would also be helpful if you could identify for me a sample of what you thought was a poorly referenced source. I hope to contribute to the Wikipedia articles in an effective way and I appreciate any opportunity to learn from any mistakes. Thank you. 09violet06 (talk) 18:13, 30 January 2018

Overall, the references you added appear helpful, though I've not reviewed them all.

Your edit summaries make it difficult to determine what you were doing and why. In at least one case you removed references and material verified by those references without any indication as to why. My main concern was your adding the birth date without a reference, apparently unaware of the discussion on the article talk page. Please join the talk page discussions. --Ronz (talk) 16:41, 31 January 2018 (UTC)

—Hi Ronz, thank you for your feed back. I see why edit summaries are important. I’ll take your suggestions and be more prompt about the edit summaries so that I’m more clear on my contributions. I also read the talk page and will follow your lead on the issue about birth date. I think you make a valid ethical point. Thank you for your feed back and comments. Much appreciated.09violet06 (talk) 10:09, 1 February 2018

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