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Hello, ClarenceDeBordeaux, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one or more of your recent edits did not conform to Wikipedia's verifiability policy, and may have been removed. Wikipedia articles should refer only to facts and interpretations verified in reliable, reputable print or online sources or in other reliable media. Always provide a reliable source for quotations and for any material that is likely to be challenged, or it may be removed. Wikipedia also has a related policy against including original research in articles.

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Again, welcome!  AntiDionysius (talk) 19:32, 20 August 2024 (UTC)Reply

Managing a conflict of interest

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  Hello, ClarenceDeBordeaux. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page David Rothman (medical historian), 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 article subjects for more information. We ask that you:

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Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicizing, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. AntiDionysius (talk) 20:02, 20 August 2024 (UTC)Reply

August 2024

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  Please do not add or change content, as you did at David Rothman (medical historian), without citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. AntiDionysius (talk) 20:04, 20 August 2024 (UTC)Reply

Two things: first, the children's names shouldn't be in the article even if it is possible to confirm that they are Rothman's children. The article is about him, not his children.
Second, when you reverted my edit wholesale, you didn't just revert my removal of the references to the kids, you also reverted me removing non-neutral content, and a huge inappropriate and unsourced quote, and important maintenance templates. Please don't do that. AntiDionysius (talk) 20:06, 20 August 2024 (UTC)Reply
Dear Sir, you are completely out-of-control. Your power to edit this page needs to be revoked ClarenceDeBordeaux (talk) 20:18, 20 August 2024 (UTC)Reply
I have cleaned up the page and brought it in line with Wikipedia policies in a number of ways (WP:V, WP:NPOV, WP:MOS etc). What you have done in response is to call me "vindictive" and "out of control". AntiDionysius (talk) 20:20, 20 August 2024 (UTC)Reply
The most generous comment one could make about you is that you applied Wikipedia policies in an unthinking manner with a bureaucratic pettiness and zeal that Nathanael Fast et al summarized best in their article "The destructive nature of power without status" (Journal of Experimental Social Psychology).
Simply put, Fast said "We found that people who had high power and high status, they were pretty cool, but it was people who had power and lacked status who used their power to require other persons to engage in demeaning behavior." (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/science-explains-bureaucrats-bad-attitudes/)
That sir, he is talking about you ClarenceDeBordeaux (talk) 02:36, 21 August 2024 (UTC)Reply