Downstatedoc

Welcome!

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

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited was Rod Rohrich, 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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One rule we do have in connection with conflicts of interest is that accounts used by more than one person will unfortunately be blocked from editing. Wikipedia generally does not allow editors to have usernames which imply that the account belongs to a company or corporation. If you have a username like this, you should request a change of username or create a new account. (A name that identifies the user as an individual within a given organization may be OK.)

In addition, if you receive, or expect to receive, compensation for any contribution you make, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation to comply with our terms our use and policy on paid editing.

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July 2018

Please do not add or change content, as you did at Rod Rohrich, 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.  Velella  ^{Velella Talk}   22:46, 10 July 2018 (UTC)

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Your recent editing history at Rod Rohrich shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war. 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 BRD 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.

Being involved in an edit war can result in your being blocked from editing—especially if you violate the three-revert rule, which states that an editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Undoing another editor's work—whether in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material each time—counts as a revert. Also keep in mind that while violating the three-revert rule often leads to a block, you can still be blocked for edit warring—even if you don't violate the three-revert rule—should your behavior indicate that you intend to continue reverting repeatedly.  Velella  ^{Velella Talk}   22:47, 10 July 2018 (UTC)

Mandatory paid editing disclosure

Hello Downstatedoc. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, and that you have not complied with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. Paid advocacy is a category of conflict of interest (COI) editing that involves being compensated by a person, group, company or organization to use Wikipedia to promote their interests. Undisclosed paid advocacy is prohibited by our policies on neutral point of view and what Wikipedia is not, and is an especially egregious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to Black hat SEO.

Paid advocates are very strongly discouraged from direct article editing, and should instead propose changes on the talk page of the article in question if an article exists, and if it does not, from attempting to write an article at all. At best, any proposed article creation should be submitted through the articles for creation process, rather than directly.

Regardless, if you are receiving or expect to receive compensation for your edits, broadly construed, you are required by the Wikimedia Terms of Use to disclose your employer, client and affiliation. You can post such a mandatory disclosure to your user page at User:Downstatedoc. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Downstatedoc|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}. If I am mistaken – you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits – please state that in response to this message. Otherwise, please provide the required disclosure. In either case, please do not edit further until you answer this message. Jytdog (talk) 23:38, 10 July 2018 (UTC)

Notice of Edit warring noticeboard discussion

Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that there is currently a discussion involving you at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Edit warring regarding a possible violation of Wikipedia's policy on edit warring. Thank you. Jytdog (talk) 00:09, 11 July 2018 (UTC)

thank you for your feedback

Hello. I am new to the wikipedia community and appreciate your feedback. I an myself a physician and want to contribute/add to pages that I am knowledgable about. I made minor and rather insignificant edits to the page Rod Rohrich which primarily included editing the number of papers he has written (as this information is incorrect and outdated). The remainder of the information on his page is accurate and has existed without issue on wikipedia for a long time. I was trying to update the numbers an as a result a lot of the information there got deleted. I would appreciate if we could have my edits go through as I do not think it is fair to the individual to have information deleted because I was trying to update numbers of books/chapters etc. I have no financial interests or connection and I am certainly not getting paid (unfortunately). Thank you

I went back to original version of this article from Feb 2018 to avoid any issues. Thank you for your feedback. I won't edit this page further.

• And one of our editors reverted it back, so that instead of a promotional and fluffy resume we have something that can be called an encyclopedic biography, one that doesn't leave out facts that are relevant and well-verified--facts about state salaries, resignations, etc. What you may do is propose factual edits that improve the article, but if you continue to abuse Wikipedia as a resume service, you will be blocked. Drmies (talk) 02:22, 11 July 2018 (UTC)

Block and next steps

You have been blocked from editing for the reasons set forth below. If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please read the guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text below the block notice on your talk page: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}.

Neutrality^talk 02:26, 11 July 2018 (UTC)

Hi, Downstatedoc. I've blocked you from editing because your edits thus far have shown some serious problems, mostly centered on promotion, which may stem from a misunderstanding about what Wikipedia is all about. I will unblock you on a few conditions:

• First, that you clearly and directly answer the question about about our Wikipedia:Conflict of interest and Wikipedia:Paid editing policy.
• Second, that you read and understand Wikipedia's other policies and guidelines, including Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not, our policy on proper use of the "minor edit" button, and Wikipedia:Edit warring.

--Neutrality^talk 02:26, 11 July 2018 (UTC)

This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who declined the request. Other administrators may also review this block, but should not override the decision without good reason (see the blocking policy).

Downstatedoc (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

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Request reason:

I have no conflict of interest and am not being paid by anyone to make edits. I have read and understand wikipedias policies and guidelines

Decline reason:

If you understand our policies and have no conflict of interest, how come you would like to restore an article to a version that unquestionably goes against said policies? Max Semenik (talk) 03:42, 11 July 2018 (UTC)

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. I do believe that wikipedia should revert back to the more detailed page for this individual from Feb 2018