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Conflict of interest

Hello, Mhmllr. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Thomas Sanchez (writer), you may need to consider our guidance on conflicts of interest.

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OrangeMike

You deleted 16 hours of well-intended work done in good faith, intended to address the issues presented in the banner at the top, and the issues you raise in your communication to me.

Comparing the entry with those of other contemporary writers, I see absolutely no justification for the wholesale deletion of my content.

I am not at all “biased” in favor of the subject. You will note that I have been working to eliminate the tone of self-promotion and simply give the reader an overview of the author’s work and life.

Please allow me to do this.

Mark Miller (mhmllr) Los Angeles

You have admitted you're working on the article on Sanchez' behalf. If you're going to make it impartial, you need to get rid of all the breathless publisher's-blurb purple prose like "explores a chaotic and dangerous world of barrio gangs, anti-Communist hysteria, religious cults, and undercover government agents". You don't see blather like that in the articles on writers like Octavia Butler or Samuel R. Delany. (Boring is good; think Encyclopedia Brittanica, not Publisher's Weekly pull quote.) We also need properly formatted citations; see WP:CITE. I like Sanchez' work; that's why I went back to try to salvage as much as possible; and I'll be glad to work with you on that. --Orange Mike | Talk 19:59, 11 October 2012 (UTC)

October 2012

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. I noticed your recent edit to Thomas Sanchez (writer) does not have an edit summary. Please provide one before saving your changes to an article, as the summaries are quite helpful to people browsing an article's history. Thanks! ukexpat (talk) 20:44, 11 October 2012 (UTC)

The content you added back is either not backed by the sources provided, or "sourced" to fan blogs and the like. Please, take it slowly and explain your edits, including using the edit summary feature. --Orange Mike | Talk 20:58, 11 October 2012 (UTC)

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