Spoonpassport

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Thanks I couldn't figure out how to do that. Spoonpassport (talk) 19:02, 21 August 2021 (UTC)

Well, at least now I know why I've avoided this space for so long. ;) Spoonpassport (talk) 04:48, 25 August 2021 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Spoonpassport. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page The Raw Story, 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:

• avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization or competitors;
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• disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see Wikipedia:Conflict of interest#How to disclose a COI);
• avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam#External link spamming);
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In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Please see Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Valleyhollandman -- RoySmith (talk) 17:15, 9 September 2021 (UTC)

I don't believe I've attempted to break any of your rules as outlined above and have disclosed the conflicts I have on the Talk pages of Salon and the Association of Alternative Newsmedia pages. Spoonpassport (talk) 19:25, 9 September 2021 (UTC)