User talk:192.54.243.244

October 2023

Hello, I'm Discospinster. I noticed that you added or changed content in an article, Jack Bogdanski, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so. You can have a look at referencing for beginners. If you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. ... discospinster _talk 23:06, 1 October 2023 (UTC)

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Please stop. If you continue to add unsourced or poorly sourced content, as you did at Jack Bogdanski, you may be blocked from editing. An oral source is not a reliable source. If that's the only available source for some information, it probably shouldn't be on Wikipedia. Please also see below notice about conflict of interest. AntiDionysius (talk) 23:11, 1 October 2023 (UTC)

Except I am providing sources, and an oral source should be considered reliable if the source is the subject of the article. 192.54.243.244 (talk) 23:13, 1 October 2023 (UTC)

If you'd like to try to change Wikipedia's reliable source policy (which, by the way, actively tries to avoid reliance on primary sources where possible) you are welcome to start a discussion on the relevant page. But until it changes, that's the policy, and continuing to re-add removed content is considered disruptive editing. AntiDionysius (talk) 23:15, 1 October 2023 (UTC)

avoid primary sources? what a joke. 192.54.243.244 (talk) 23:16, 1 October 2023 (UTC)

Again, if you'd like to try to change the policy you are welcome to begin that discussion, but there is (decades worth of) very solid reasoning behind it. If you clicked through to the reliable source policy, you'd be able to read some of it. AntiDionysius (talk) 23:17, 1 October 2023 (UTC)

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Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, 192.54.243.244. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, 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);
• 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 Wikipedia:Spam § External link spamming);
• 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. AntiDionysius (talk) 23:07, 1 October 2023 (UTC)

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