219.73.60.102

Conflict of interest

Hello, 219.73.60.102. 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 COI guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:

• avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, company, organization or competitors;
• propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the {{request edit}} template);
• disclose your COI when discussing affected articles (see WP:DISCLOSE);
• avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see WP:Spam);
• do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

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

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. SarahSV ^(talk) 01:40, 2 September 2019 (UTC)

I have no connection to any of the subjects of the articles that I edit. I have no conflict of interest of any kind to disclose. 219.73.60.102 (talk) 09:57, 2 September 2019 (UTC)

Smithfield was purchased in 2013 by a Chinese company with its global headquarters in Hong Kong. Now, IP addresses that geolocate to Hong Kong are repeatedly removing a lot of material from the article, including text about the purchase from the lead and concern from US regulators about the size of the company. That's unlikely to be a coincidence.

Any connection to Smithfield Foods, WH Group, or to anyone acting on their behalf should be disclosed. Please see WP:COIDISCLOSE. Further, in accordance with the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use, "you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation." That applies to anyone who works for the company even if they are not paid directly to edit Wikipedia. Please see WP:PAID. Many thanks, SarahSV ^(talk) 20:42, 2 September 2019 (UTC)

There are millions of people in Hong Kong and almost none of them have anything to do with Smithfield. Also, the Chinese parent company doesn't seem to maintain any significant presence in Hong Kong. It has its stock listed here. It is headquartered deep in mainland China. It is also kind of natural for Hong Kong people to write about things we see in our own headlines. So, stop trying to smear me. 219.73.60.102 (talk) 21:03, 2 September 2019 (UTC)

Anyway, once again, I have no relationship whatsoever to the subject of this article. I am not being paid to edit this article. I was not asked by anyone to edit this article. I have no conflict of interest to disclose because none exists. 219.73.60.102 (talk) 21:00, 2 September 2019 (UTC)

Having a COI is not a "smear". See our WP:COI guideline: "Determining that someone has a COI is a description of a situation. It is not a judgment about that person's state of mind or integrity." If you have no link to the company, it raises the question as to why you would want to remove any reference to China from the lead, for example. SarahSV ^(talk) 21:34, 2 September 2019 (UTC)

I don't have a conflict of interest and will no longer entertain such accusations. I don't really care if the word “China” gets mentioned in the intro. If that floats your boat, go do it. 219.73.60.102 (talk) 21:42, 2 September 2019 (UTC)

Thank you for the note on my talk page. I appreciate that feedback. Could you say which of the other IPs/accounts are you? You wrote that you have no connection to any of the subjects of the articles you edit, but you've only edited one with this IP. SarahSV ^(talk) 22:52, 4 September 2019 (UTC)

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