Managing a conflict of interest edit

  Hello, Ngo3arts. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Michael Rotenberg, 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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Neutrality notice on Michael Rotenberg article edit

I noticed your note at the WP:Teahouse. The template you need to remove is at the top, where it says {{POV check|date=January 2019}}. The notice was placed with this edit here [1] on January 9, 2019. The editor that placed it also put a note on the talk page here [2], where they said: "I added the POV tag not because I didn't think that the information was factual, but because it was generally unsourced and seemed as if it was written by the the subject or someone close to him.".

I don't see a problem personally, unless it's the fact that a lot of it is unsourced and needs more citations. signed, Willondon (talk) 23:09, 31 January 2022 (UTC)Reply

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