User talk:Tejasrnbr

Welcome!

Hello, Tejasrnbr, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions, especially your edits to Preet Bharara. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:

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Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask for help on your talk page, and a volunteer should respond shortly. Again, welcome! JesseRafe (talk) 16:04, 8 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Conflict of interest in Wikipedia

Hi Tejasrnbr. I work on conflict of interest issues here in Wikipedia, along with my regular editing about health and medicine. Many of your edits have added links to healthfoodpost.com and you have several times tried to use this as a source. Likewise you have added links to cannabisrevu.com and when that failed, a link to a youtube video by them. These are not reliable sources in Wikipedia and you keep adding links to them, even after others remove them.

This is the behavior of a freelance paid editor.

I'm giving you notice of our Conflict of Interest guideline and Terms of Use, and will have some comments and requests for you below.

Hello, Tejasrnbr. 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 COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. In particular, please:

avoid editing or creating articles related to you and your circle, your organization, its competitors, projects or products;
instead propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (see the {{request edit}} template);
when discussing affected articles, disclose your COI (see WP:DISCLOSE);
avoid linking to the Wikipedia article or 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 familiarize yourself with relevant policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, sourcing and autobiographies. Thank you.

Comments and requests

Wikipedia is a widely-used reference work and managing conflict of interest is essential for ensuring the integrity of Wikipedia and retaining the public's trust in it. As in academia, COI is managed here in two steps - disclosure and a form of peer review. Please note that there is no bar to being part of the Wikipedia community if you want to be involved in articles where you have a conflict of interest; there are just some things we ask you to do (and if you are paid, some things you need to do).

Disclosure is the most important, and first, step. While I am not asking you to disclose your identity (anonymity is strictly protecting by our WP:OUTING policy) would you please disclose if you have some connection with healthfoodpost.com? You can answer how ever you wish (giving personally identifying information or not), but if there is a connection, please disclose it. After you respond (and you can just reply below), perhaps we can talk a bit about editing Wikipedia, to give you some more orientation to how this place works. Please reply here - I am watching this page. Thanks! Jytdog (talk) 20:13, 17 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I wanted to add those links because a friend suggested the pages are good on those topics and shared the Yahoo posts to vet the content. I thought that since Yahoo had posted that news, it must be good and authentic article. I wanted to do some edits since lately I have not done much, and thought the discussion on it will be good. Sorry for re-posting the links, but I thought somebody was removing my edits. Tejas Ramakrishnan (talk) 14:01, 22 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Copying within Wikipedia requires proper attribution

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you copied or moved text from Legal and medical status of cannabis into Cannabis in the United States. While you are welcome to re-use Wikipedia's content, here or elsewhere, Wikipedia's licensing does require that you provide attribution to the original contributor(s). When copying within Wikipedia, this is supplied at minimum in an edit summary at the page into which you've copied content. It is good practice, especially if copying is extensive, to also place a properly formatted {{copied}} template on the talk pages of the source and destination. The attribution has been provided for this situation, but if you have copied material between pages before, even if it was a long time ago, please provide attribution for that duplication. You can read more about the procedure and the reasons at Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia. Thank you. — Diannaa (talk) 00:16, 13 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Duly noted. I will do that. Tejas Ramakrishnan (talk) 12:49, 13 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Reverted addition of unreliable sources

Hi, I have reverted some of your recent additions as they are based on unreliable sources. Please read WP:RS for what constitutes a reliable source. In general, do not use sources from a blogs or self published websites. The best practice is to use sources only from well known international/national media or journals. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 12:14, 19 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Your feedback requested re major changes to Cannabis in the United States

Please see: Talk:Cannabis_in_the_United_States#Proposing_bold_changes_at_Cannabis_in_the_United_States

Goonsquad LCpl Mulvaney (talk) 21:42, 14 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

April 2018

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for advertising or promotion. From your contributions, this seems to be your only purpose.

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 ~~~~}}. MER-C 18:05, 28 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Choice diffs: [1][2][3][4][5]. MER-C 18:07, 28 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]