Chrisjohnagee

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May 2022

Your recent editing history at Alternative media (U.S. political left) shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war; that means that you are repeatedly changing content back to how you think it should be, when you have seen that other editors disagree. To resolve the content dispute, please do not revert or change the edits of others when you are reverted. Instead of reverting, please use the talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. The best practice at this stage is to discuss, not edit-war. See the bold, revert, discuss cycle for how this is done. If discussions reach an impasse, you can then post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection.

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Note, you can't avoid being sanctioned for edit warring by editing logged out. Please use the talkpage. Bishonen | tålk 19:34, 7 May 2022 (UTC).

Hi,

This is my first time editing a wikipedia page. No offense intended. I did not know I was not logged in.

But please check out our website and archives history. You will find we are definitely an excellent alternative media outlet with a long and venerable history.

CovertActionMagazine.com

Feel free to share your feedback.

Best,

Chris chris.agee@icloud.com 68.132.88.30 (talk) 19:47, 7 May 2022 (UTC)

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Hello, Chrisjohnagee, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited was CovertAction Magazine, which appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article. Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

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tl;dr version of the above notice: you shouldn't directly edit an article where you have a conflict of interest. Instead, use the talk page to suggest edits (don't forget to provide reliable sources) and someone will make the edit for you. --RegentsPark (comment) 20:37, 7 May 2022 (UTC)

CovertAction Magazine: COI, edit-warring, and verifiability

Chris,

I saw your comment at Doug Weller's talkpage, noticed that you have been recently making edits related to CovertAction Magazine, and wanted to drop you a few notes about relevant wikipedia policies:

• Firstly, if have an association with the magazine in real life (which seems likely given your exclusive focus), please see the message from RegentsPark above regarding conflict of interest and instead of editing the related articles themselves, post on their respective talkpages (1) declaring your potential CoI, and (2) requesting that the changes you propose be reviewed and implemented by independent editors.
• Irrespective of CoI, if your edit is disputed or reverted, it is not ok to repeatedly redo that edit as you did at Alternative media (U.S. political left); also logging out to make a disputed edit is treated as sockpuppetry, and can lead to sanctions. Instead, again, discuss your change on the article talkpage while presenting sources that support it.
• Speaking of sources: wikipedia typically relies on secondary, reliable sources that are independent of the subject. So CovertAction Magazine's "website and archives history" is not necessarily a good source for, say, listing it at Alternative media (U.S. political left). In this case you could have cited Atton, Chris (2002). Alternative Media. SAGE. pp. 11–12. ISBN 978-0-7619-6771-2. on the article talkpage to see if the other editor(s) agree to its reliability and relevance.

I realize that the above is a lot to absorb. So for now, you can start with disclosing any CoI and slowing down to avoid disruption. Abecedare (talk) 20:55, 7 May 2022 (UTC)

I just noticed that you already say on your userpage that you are the "editor of the newly relaunched CovertAction Magazine." Given that, RegentsPark concise advice is the most relevant one to follow. Abecedare (talk) 21:17, 7 May 2022 (UTC)