Jennispat

June 2015

Hello, I'm Bonadea. I wanted to let you know that some of your recent contributions to Technical support scam have been reverted or removed because they could be seen to be defamatory or libellous. Take a look at our welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. bonadea contributions talk 11:13, 2 June 2015 (UTC)

Thank you for your message on my user talk page. The references you added are from 1998, and hence they cannot possibly comment on a blog post from 2014 - please see Wikipedia's policy on original research, and also our policy on biographies on living people. The information about the past dishonesty of this person is irrelevant in the Technical support scam article, and it is already mentioned in the article Robert X. Cringely. Note also that the pseudonym Robert X. Cringely is used by a number of different writers. Kind regards, --bonadea contributions talk 13:01, 2 June 2015 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Jennispat. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you have an external relationship with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Technical support scam, you may have a conflict of interest or close connection to the subject.

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Please also note that if you are being paid to edit Wikipedia, you are required to disclose this - paid editing is not prohibited, but it must be disclosed. Thank you. bonadea contributions talk 09:50, 9 June 2015 (UTC)