Idiomist

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Managing a conflict of interest

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Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. MrOllie (talk) 22:15, 23 March 2020 (UTC)

December 2020

Please do not add promotional material to Wikipedia. While objective prose about beliefs, organisations, people, products or services is acceptable, Wikipedia is not a vehicle for soapboxing, advertising or promotion. Thank you. MrOllie (talk) 17:26, 29 December 2020 (UTC)

MrOllie I regret that I do not understand your comment and view your removal of pertinent facts as at best misguided and at worst offensive. It is not self-promotion to give the title and ISBN of a book published by a reputable company (referred to in itself by Wikipedia). Nor is it self-promotion to state, with evidence of outsider reviewers, that theatre productions took place. In that light, your removal of objectively verifiable information that adds to the topics concerned (Volpone / Hadrian VII and Death in Venice) can only be seen as censorship that deprives the public of information that might be of interest to them. I invite you to reinstate the information or I will have to appeal against your deletions. Your reinstatement - verifying independently the facts that were in the original edits - should meet even the strictest standards of impartiality. In the hope that you can reconsider and resolve this mistake, I wish you a happy new year.