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    Welcome to Conflict of interest Noticeboard (COIN)
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    This Conflict of interest/Noticeboard (COIN) page is for determining whether a specific editor has a conflict of interest (COI) for a specific article and whether an edit by a COIN-declared COI editor meets a requirement of the Conflict of Interest guideline. A conflict of interest may occur when an editor has a close personal or business connection with article topics. Post here if you are concerned that an editor has a COI, and is using Misplaced Pages to promote their own interests at the expense of neutrality. For content disputes, try proposing changes at the article talk page first and otherwise follow the Misplaced Pages:Dispute resolution procedural policy.
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    Category:Misplaced Pages conflict of interest edit requests is where COI editors have placed the {{edit COI}} template: Misplaced Pages conflict of interest edit requests Talk:260 Collins Talk:American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers Talk:Pamela Anderson Talk:AvePoint Talk:Moshe Bar (neuroscientist) Talk:BEE Japan Talk:Edi Birsan Talk:Adam Boehler Talk:Edouard Bugnion Talk:Bunq Talk:Captions (app) Talk:Casualty Actuarial Society Talk:Cofra Holding Talk:Cohen Milstein Talk:Commvault Talk:Chris Daniels (musician) Talk:DEGIRO Talk:Dell Technologies Talk:Michael Dell Talk:Etraveli Group Talk:Florida Power & Light Talk:Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (novel) Talk:Steven Grinspoon Talk:Grizzly Creek Fire Talk:Group-IB Talk:Henley & Partners Talk:Insight Meditation Society Talk:Daymond John Talk:Norma Kamali Talk:Khalili Foundation Talk:David Lalloo Talk:Dafna Lemish Talk:Gigi Levy-Weiss Talk:Alexa Meade Talk:Metro AG Talk:Alberto Musalem Talk:NAPA Auto Parts Talk:NextEra Energy Talk:Matthew Parish Talk:Barbara Parker (California politician) Talk:Sharp HealthCare Talk:Louise Showe Talk:Shuntarō Tanikawa Talk:University of Toronto Faculty of Arts and Science Talk:Uppsala Monitoring Centre Talk:Zions Bancorporation

    Lars Lindberg Christensen

    The article has multiple edits from the IP subnets 134.171 and 200.72 which belongs to ESO, the employer of the person. All other anonymous edits are from IP addresses used by M-net, an ISP located in Munich the city nearest to ESO. No edits coming from the M-net adresses have contributions to the German Misplaced Pages. This is an indication that those edits are made by a non-German. There are many non-Germans at ESO. The small remainder of contributions to this article are from named wikipedia accounts, mostly bots, in one case from an account matching the name of the article. The article is basically a CV, with activities which are not so unusual for an astronomer/PR-person. Is the person actually notable ? Smerenda (talk) 20:22, 28 March 2013 (UTC)

    Subject removing cited birth date from article

    I have noticed in the article about Bob Brinker that a dynamic IP from Henderson, Nevada (the city where the person lives) has been removing the birth date from the article despite the date cited to the Who's Who in America directory. Arbor to SJ (talk) 21:45, 28 March 2013 (UTC)

    Chuck DeVore

    These edits: , , , , , seem kinda problematic. See also this and, especially, this prior warning. David in DC (talk) 02:26, 29 March 2013 (UTC)

    I agree that those edits are problematic. User:Qworty has already tidied up the article, Chuckdevore replaced a lot of it sourcing it to http://chuckdevore.com/aboutchuck.html. As a community we are fairly in agreement that subjects shouldn't write their own articles and therefore I reverted these edits. Some of the content could probably belong in the article, but it should reference secondary sources and be added by someone else. SmartSE (talk) 14:53, 29 March 2013 (UTC)
    Thanks. David in DC (talk) 15:02, 29 March 2013 (UTC)

    California Lutheran University

    This editor (who I've introduced to Misplaced Pages a bit because I volunteer with the education program) is interested in becoming a campus volunteer. They would like input at Talk:California_Lutheran_University#Lots_of_Disclosure. Biosthmors (talk) 20:42, 29 March 2013 (UTC)

    ExxonMobil

    This article states:

    ExxonMobil, one of BP's rivals, says it strictly follows Misplaced Pages procedures to not alter its page. Instead, its staff clearly identifies itself when reaching out to editors and focuses on specific errors that can be easily proven wrong, such as an incorrect number. Bigger requests can be viewed as more subjective in nature. “There's a lot of information on there that's not true or factual,” explains Alan Jeffers, media relations manager at ExxonMobil. “However, it's impossible to prove a negative.”
    — Dickson, Virgil (March 20, 2013). "Corporate comms execs pick their battles on Misplaced Pages". PRWeek. Retrieved 29 March 2013.

    Looking at Talk:ExxonMobil, and the 2 archives: 1 and 2, I don't see anyone explicitly identified. Also, there is no {{Connected contributor}} on the talk page. Am I missing something, or is the article wrong?Smallman12q (talk) 21:30, 30 March 2013 (UTC)

    Misplaced Pages talk:Articles for creation/Toh Aik Choon

    Not necessarily an autobiography, but a conflict of interest may be in place, especially considering the username involved. hmssolent\ My patrols 06:53, 1 April 2013 (UTC)

    Hi, I am the employee of ACT Holdings Pte Ltd, a company founded by Mr Toh Aik Choon himself. I've been tasked to do a wikipedia input from Mr AC Toh's son, who is now the owner and managing director of the group. We will be most appreciative if you can allow the article which is by no means any conflict with anybody. All materials have not been plagiarized or is fictitious. For clarifications, we can be contacted via details on the website www.act-holdings.com.sg. Thank you - C.Y Lim Toh Aik Choon (talk) 01:25, 3 April 2013 (UTC)

    FYI, the proposed article in question is on OP's talk page.  little green rosetta(talk)
    central scrutinizer  01:30, 3 April 2013 (UTC)

    Seeking assistance with MicroStrategy, Michael J. Saylor

    Last fall, User:Dreamyshade identified problems with several articles related to the company MicroStrategy and posted about it on this noticeboard (see here). As she correctly noted, someone from the company was editing directly, and the resulting articles were well outside of Misplaced Pages guidelines. Since then I've agreed to work with the company on a consulting basis, and I've prepared written replacements for two: one about the company MicroStrategy (current article | proposed version | Talk proposal) and another about CEO co-founder, Michael J. Saylor (current article | proposed version | Talk proposal).

    It's always my goal to follow Jimbo's "bright line" and not edit directly, however I need a bit more assistance than I've been able to find so far. Since first posting my drafts two weeks back, I've had positive responses from Dreamyshade, User:FurrySings and a mixed take on the company article from User:Qwyrxian, but I'm afraid I haven't been able to get a follow-up response from any. FurrySings thought the Saylor article was ready to go and suggested I move it, but I won't for reasons stated. Perhaps that's a good place to start: is anyone willing to review the Saylor article and draft and comment on whether it's ready to move? I'm happy to continue this conversation here or on one of the article Talk pages, just let me know. WWB Too (Talk · COI) 15:50, 2 April 2013 (UTC)

    would you be willing to put a {{user page}} tag on that page? I've brought up my concern about WP:MIRRORs on the conflict of interest policy talk page, and feel it is a best practice. Personally I think the draft you have here is a significant improvement over the current page. -- # _ 17:26, 2 April 2013 (UTC)
    Hello UseTheCommandLine, I'm perfectly happy adding {{user page}}, and I've just done so on both drafts. Your concern about them appearing on mirrors without the proper disclaimer makes sense to me. (And I'll do the same with other drafts as well.) About the draft being an improvement: is it the Saylor draft you looked at, and whichever the case, any more specific feedback? Cheers, WWB Too (Talk · COI) 17:58, 2 April 2013 (UTC)

    Fondation Carmignac

    Very obvious COI, username is the same name as the article. User has been warned of his username on his talk page. User has also removed the COI tag once. ToastyMallows (talk) 16:10, 3 April 2013 (UTC)

    Yes, and what is more, this seems to be a sockpuppet account, evading a block on User:Fondation Carmignac, so I have indefinitely blocked the account. JamesBWatson (talk) 16:33, 3 April 2013 (UTC)

    Paid editing with a twist

    Folks, a recent e-mail to OTRS brought this to our attention. In an e-mail exchange between this individual and the e-mailer, he claims to "have a Wikiepdia Admin on staff who can get your pages up and keep them up. He is also very good at fixing client's pages who have gotten slandered online. Get in touch for more details. Our price is $2,500."

    Not sure there is much we can do without further data, so I am just bringing this here for wider attention.--ukexpat (talk) 20:37, 3 April 2013 (UTC)

    Based on a search for that guy's name, I think I'll call bullshit on the fact that he has an admin on staff. I just hope that the person who emailed hasn't handed anything over. User:Joseph Chinnock was created last week though and is spammy. SmartSE (talk) 21:24, 3 April 2013 (UTC)
    No, the chap who e-mailed OTRS was just letting us know.--ukexpat (talk) 01:10, 4 April 2013 (UTC)
    Oh, the lulz. Like having an admin "on staff" would help with anything. I know 200 and none of them listen to me §FreeRangeFrog 22:57, 3 April 2013 (UTC)

    Mad Men commentary from Kritic

    COI-spamming on numerous Mad Men articles by the above IPs. Comments left on the article talk page suggest that the IPs are associated with the links in question unitcritic.blogspot.com SFK2 (talk) 02:25, 4 April 2013 (UTC)

    Mark Rappaport

    User is clearly editing his own article.

    Replace this with a brief explanation of the situation. Finkellium (talk) 06:07, 4 April 2013 (UTC)

    Left a {{uw-autobiography}} notice on his talk page. --Drm310 (talk) 13:51, 4 April 2013 (UTC)

    C-Murder

    User names and edit histories suggest that these users may be related in some way to the subject of the article:

    Edits marked as minor, new username apparently created after talk feedback to the first, and so on... -- The Anome (talk) 11:26, 4 April 2013 (UTC)

    Multiple religious articles related to Eastern Orthodoxy

    Yeoberry is edit-warring to add a paper by "John B. Carpenter" to the above articles. When Doug Weller asked the editor if he has any connection to John B. Carpenter the editor, via an IP, reverted his message: User talk:Yeoberry: Difference between revisions Revision as of 16:38, 18 March 2013 174.53.88.54.

    Specifically Doug had asked him:

    Yeoberry, it's not just me asking this - have you any relationship to the Covenant Reformed Baptist Church? It's a yes/no question and just requires a bit of honesty and openness. Dougweller (talk) 05:40, 18 March 2013 (UTC)

    and

    And the creation of an article about its pastor (edit summaries "curriculum vita of Dr. John B. Carpenter" and "Description of John B. Carpenter" with a lot of detail but no sources suggests you do. There's no shame in saying you have a COI but hiding a major COI is a bad idea. Dougweller (talk) 05:46, 18 March 2013 (UTC)

    In addition the paper he is edit-warring to add across many articles is non-existent in Google Scholar. He is also engaging in personal attacks against me in his edit-summaries, accusing me of COI and for not "having enough expertise", and on his messages on my talk. Please see also Talk:Eastern Orthodox Church: Challenge to Claim to Continuity with the Early Church. He also created another article on his church which was also deleted. Δρ.Κ.  18:05, 4 April 2013 (UTC)

    I'm not "edit-warring." There is a recent article, just published, entitled, "Icons and the Eastern Orthodox Claim to Continuity with the Early Church," Journal of the International Society of Christian Apologetics, Vol. 6, No. 1, 2013. It's an academic article from a peer-reviewed journal. Properly cited information from it was added to a few relevant wikipedia articles, such as about icons. Dr. K removed that information for no appropriate reason. He didn't try to edit or condense or reach a consensus with other editors. He simply deleted it.

    The article is not non-existent: it is newly published by the International Society for Christian Apologetics, edited by Norman Geisler (a well-known scholar), available for purchase here: http://www.isca-apologetics.org/jisca.Yeoberry (talk) 19:26, 4 April 2013 (UTC)

    Dougweller has apparently become obsessed with stalking me and preventing any of my additions after he blocked me from adding anything to the SCLC article. He then went to an article I created an made a series of false statements about it: including putting up a "notability" tag on March 9 and then five days later claiming that the tag had been up for two months and so the article should be deleted. He frequently put unwanted material on my "talk" page and then I finally had to threaten to report him for stalking me until he stopped. His interest here is nothing less, I believe, that to frustrate me.Yeoberry (talk) 19:26, 4 April 2013 (UTC)
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