Erihsnlocnil

February 2016

Hello, I'm Hello71. I noticed that you recently removed some content from T.J. Maloney  with this edit, without explaining why. In the future, it would be helpful to others if you described your changes to Wikipedia with an edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry, the removed content has been restored. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. ⁓ Hello71 17:24, 22 February 2016 (UTC)

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to blank out or remove portions of page content, templates, or other materials from Wikipedia, you may be blocked from editing. Thank you. SmartSE (talk) 17:46, 22 February 2016 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Erihsnlocnil. 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. SmartSE (talk) 17:47, 22 February 2016 (UTC)

Justification

I presume the above applies since your username is Lincolnshire spelled backwards and the article you are editing is about the CEO of Lincolnshire Management. Please read those guidelines carefully and bear in mind that we don't remove information that is verifiable. SmartSE (talk) 17:49, 22 February 2016 (UTC)

Response

Hello. Thank you for reaching out to me. This is my first time editing Wikipedia and I made the account to make this particular edit which is why I chose the particular username. I am not a paid Wikipedia editor. I did not write this autobiography. This page is dissimilar to other Private Equity CEO’s Wikipedia pages that only talk about accomplishments and biographical information. As this is a biography of a living person I wanted to remove negative and harmful material. I hope this answers your question. I will review the articles you sent on how to make changes to a Wikipedia article. Is there any other information you can provide me with so I may post in the correct way? Thank you Erihsnlocnil (talk) 20:15, 22 February 2016 (UTC)

Hi. Thank you for the explanation. In our articles we aim to summarise everything that has been written about the subject in reliable sources (books, newspapers etc.) and in this case that includes the accusations made against him in the Forbes article. If this is different to other CEO articles, it is most likely because they haven't been accused of such things. Our policy on biographies of living people requires that information is well-sourced, but doesn't mean that negative information can't be included and in this case, Forbes is a very solid source for the content. Unless there are sources which dispute the article, then the information should remain. This from 2014 discusses another case and says that the 2011 case was still pending - do you know of anything more recent that discusses it? SmartSE (talk) 21:26, 22 February 2016 (UTC)