User talk:JoeyPannetone

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Happy editing! Cheers, Devoke water 19:47, 24 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

CS1 error on Brian Earp

Hello, I'm Qwerfjkl (bot). I have automatically detected that this edit performed by you, on the page Brian Earp, may have introduced referencing errors. They are as follows:

A bare URL error. References show this error when one of the URL-containing parameters cannot be paired with an associated title. Please edit the article to add the appropriate title parameter to the reference. (Fix | Ask for help)

Please check this page and fix the errors highlighted. If you think this is a false positive, you can report it to my operator. Thanks, Qwerfjkl (bot) (talk) 02:32, 18 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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--TheSandDoctor ^Talk 02:35, 19 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for this information. I am new to Wikipedia and am still learning the rules. I saw a discussion on Twitter referring to a number of recent changes to the article by a new Wikipedia user or users who introduced several incorrect or misleading claims (for example, misattributing quotes from other people to the subject). I have tried to fix these to the best of my ability. JoeyPannetone (talk) 04:43, 19 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

As the notice says, this isn't meant to imply any wrongdoing on your part. Just a general FYI that I distributed to parties of that slow moving potential edit war. Hoping that it helps to calm things down and make all parties aware. TheSandDoctor ^Talk 05:21, 19 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi thanks for your kind reply and I was hoping, too, it would have calmed things down! It looks like the other person has made blanket undo's of the changes that I spent hours meticulously addressing with full citations without giving either a summary of the changes or updating their citations (assuming impossible because many claims they have made on the page are categorically false). I see that they've done something quite similar to another page (see their talk page User talk:RomanianObserver41) and kindly ask some advice on how to handle this? I have sent them a message on their talk page to open a discussion and have also put the full citations of my corrections inTalk:Brian Earp. JoeyPannetone (talk) 10:17, 19 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Brian Earp

Hello, JoeyPannetone. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Brian Earp, 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:

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Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicizing, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Jay8g [V•T•E] 03:33, 20 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]