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  Hello, Francophile9. 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:

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Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. SmartSE (talk) 18:21, 17 January 2021 (UTC)Reply

Given that you disclosed here that you work for the parent company of Elsevier, you should not be making edits such as this at Sci-Hub as you clearly have a COI. SmartSE (talk) 18:23, 17 January 2021 (UTC)Reply

Fair enough. By extension, does that mean that people who are paid to promote open access and denigrate academic publishers also have a conflict of interest when editing the Elsevier page and their edits should also be removed?

Talk:Elsevier/Archives/2021#Undisclosed paid edits

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Hello, you might want to give a look over there. Nemo 06:02, 24 April 2021 (UTC)Reply