User talk:Catch212

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Hello and welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions. We appreciate encyclopedic contributions, but some of your recent contributions, such as your edit to the page Lawrence Roeck, have removed content without a good reason to do so. Content on Wikipedia should not be removed just because you disagree with it or because you think it's wrong, unless the claim is not verifiable. Instead, you should consider expanding the article with noteworthy and verifiable information of your own, citing reliable sources when you do so. If you'd like to experiment with the wiki's syntax, please do so in the sandbox rather than in articles. The following links will help you begin editing on Wikipedia:

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The Wikipedia tutorial is a good place to start learning about Wikipedia. If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump or ask me on my talk page. By the way, you can sign your name on Talk and discussion pages using four tildes, like this: ~~~~ (the software will replace them with your signature and the date). Again, welcome! AntiDionysius (talk) 20:43, 8 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi< I have a concern and need some advice. A competitor is editing my wikipedia page to take away my accomplishments in film and only highlight a lawsuit in my bio that paints me in a bad light. Can I revert to the previous version of my bio on wikipedia and block them from editing it with a conflict of interest in mind? Catch212 (talk) 20:55, 8 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You also have a conflict of interest and should not be editing the page directly, except in the case of unsourced material. This is explained in the conflict of interest policy. The material you deleted was not unsourced, and therefore does not qualify for this exception, and your addition of new material also does not qualify. More subtle concerns about the content of the page can be raised at Talk:Lawrence Roeck.

If you have evidence to suggest that someone with some off-Wiki connection to you is making malicious edits to the page, you would be best off presenting that evidence at the Biographies of Living Persons Noticeboard. AntiDionysius (talk) 21:02, 8 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Catch212. 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 article subjects for more information. We ask that you:

avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization, clients, or competitors;
propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the {{edit COI}} template)—don't forget to give details of reliable sources supporting your suggestions;
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);
do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

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, publicizing, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. AntiDionysius (talk) 20:45, 8 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. That all makes sense, I'm new to wikipedia and want to be a postiviely contributing member to the community. I created an account when I noticed someone was creating a wikipedia about my directing career and all of sudden noticed it was edited to highlight a lawsuit and nothing else. Question, may I find a previous version of my wikipedia bio and request the article to revert back to that? Thank you. Catch212 (talk) 17:44, 11 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]