Sandytrevor

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May 2022

Hello, Sandytrevor. 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. Llll5032 (talk) 21:54, 24 May 2022 (UTC)

Thank you for pointing out to me the requirement for disclosing COI. I have added COI tags to my personal page, and added a statement to the talk page for John B Trevor, Jr. I do not know how to go back and add COI to my previous edits, but let me add an explanation here:

I am a grandson of John B Trevor, Sr., and realize that editing Wikipedia articles of relatives is strongly discouraged. However, my edits of May 24 corrects a factual error that originated with a misunderstanding on the part of Atlanta Constitution columnist Ralph McGill. He published a column which stated that the American Coalition has been indicted for sedition, which it had not. McGill published a retraction on the front page of the Atlanta Constitution on January 23, 1957, "Misunderstanding Corrected." This was further corroborated by the deposition of William Mahoney on January 15, 1957 https://nuvocom.com/JBT/1957-Jan-15-Mahoney2.pdf. Unfortunately, some authors including Adam Miller, whose 1994 article is referenced by this Wikipedia article, did not see or chose to ignore the retraction and quote the original false allegation.

I am an infrequent Wikipedia editor and don't know all the rules, but no one else has seen to correct this serious error so I have felt it necessary to do so despite my obvious COI. BTW, I had used by real name ("Sandytrevor") in all my edits.

If any more disclosure is required, please let me know. Or if there is a better way to make such corrections in the future, I would love to know.

Sandytrevor (talk) 21:37, 26 May 2022 (UTC)