User talk:PhilKukielski
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Your draft article, User:PhilKukielski/sandbox[edit]
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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia! UnitedStatesian (talk) 18:12, 2 July 2020 (UTC)
Managing a conflict of interest[edit]
Hello, PhilKukielski. 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:
- avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization or competitors;
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Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. - wolf 03:43, 23 January 2022 (UTC)
Notice of Conflict of interest noticeboard discussion[edit]
There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard regarding a possible conflict of interest incident with which you may be involved. Thank you. - wolf 04:01, 23 January 2022 (UTC)
It is upsetting to learn that my factual, objective contributions on military topics to Wikipedia are being perceived as a possible a conflict of interest. I have recently published a book and associated professional articles on the 1983 invasion of Grenada, based mostly on newly declassified information that is not found elsewhere in the public arena. At the suggestion of my book publicist, I have been making selective additions and amplifications to Grenada-related Wikipedia pages that freely share my unique, original historical research. (Many of my contributions corrected errors or added desired citations.) This is my first book, but my targeted contributions seemed to me to conform to the promotional standards of contemporary media. (Every talking head I see on cable TV these days has their book mentioned, or prominently displayed in the background.) From what I have observed, much of Wikipedia's expert content is also motivated at least in part by some self-interest by the originator. If my offerings are unwelcome, I will delete or undo any and all that your think stepped across the line from the reporting of newly disclosed historical facts tied to reputable published sources into self-promotion.PhilKukielski (talk) 12:49, 23 January 2022 (UTC)
- Please address the discussion on the noticeboard. I have transcribed the above response to the board --SVTCobra 14:41, 23 January 2022 (UTC)
- It's not that your edits are unwelcome, it's just that we have a Conflict of Interest policy, which I am hoping you can appreciate the need of, being that this website "that anyone can edit" is also the fourth most popular website on the planet, with Wikipedia pages regularly showing up at the top of Google searches. There is opportunity for misuse and self-promotion and we need to guard against that. You said is was your "book's publicist" that recommended you make these edits, surely you can see the conflict there? If the offer to undo your contributions still stands, I would accept it (but that's just me). I think that a lot of the content you added, or "amplifications" as you put it, have a significant amount of superfluous details couched in industry colloquialisms. I think it would be better to remove your contributions from the articles, and instead propose them on the article's talk pages, along with the books and articles you've written that you intend to use as support. Then other editors can vet your suggested additions and go from there. However, you may find other paths offered to you at the COINB discussion. (jmho) - wolf 02:49, 24 January 2022 (UTC)