User talk:Mike Stainbank

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16:03, 13 December 2016 (UTC)

Conflict of interest editing

Hello, Mike Stainbank. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places, or things you have written about in the article Apartheid Museum, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic, and it is important when editing Wikipedia articles that such connections be completely transparent. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. In particular, we ask that you please:

avoid editing or creating articles related to you and your family, friends, school, company, club, or organization, as well as any competing companies' projects or products;
instead, you are encouraged to propose changes on the Talk pages of affected article(s) (see the {{request edit}} template);
when discussing affected articles, disclose your COI (see WP:DISCLOSE);
avoid linking to the Wikipedia article or to the website of your organization in other articles (see WP:SPAM);
exercise great caution so that you do not violate Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID).

Please take a few moments to read and review Wikipedia's policies regarding conflicts of interest, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, sourcing and autobiographies. Thank you. -- Marchjuly (talk) 06:46, 16 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

September 2017

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to violate Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy by adding commentary and your personal analysis into articles, as you did at Apartheid Museum, you may be blocked from editing. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 16:09, 21 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for abuse of editing privileges.

If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please read the guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text below the block notice on your talk page: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 16:14, 21 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

User has been previous requested to disclose their COI. They only edit one specific topic to which they are related. Due to the ongoing disruption I have removed their ability to edit. I am happy to unblock if they agree to a topic area restriction. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 16:16, 21 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]