Kent Larson

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June 2021

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia. Your edits appear to be disruptive and have been or will be reverted.

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Please ensure you are familiar with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines, and please do not continue to make edits that appear disruptive. Continued disruptive editing may result in loss of editing privileges. Your recent edits triggering the abuse filter and violating the conflict of interest guideline by editing the article about you are disruptive. Thanks for understanding. Firestar464 (talk) 13:10, 28 June 2021 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Kent Larson. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Kent Larson, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:

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Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Nick Moyes (talk) 15:58, 28 June 2021 (UTC)

No content 'lost'

At the article, View history provides a chronological list of all edits (green means content added, red means content removed). Clicking on "pre" shows exactly what as added or removed. Clicking on a date show the version on that date (past versions cannot be edited). Assuming you are Kent Larson, Wikipedia asks that you declare that on your User page, and more to the point, because of your COI, suggest changes on the Talk page of the article rather than editing the article directly, especially as content you wanted to add was reverted.

Example articles for Media Lab faculty: John Maeda, William J. Mitchell, Nicholas Negroponte and Alex Pentland. David notMD (talk) 17:50, 28 June 2021 (UTC)

Mistrouted

Sizzle! The trout you used to slap another Wikipedian has been gutted, roasted over the coals, and served with tartar sauce. Don't take this too seriously. Someone just wants to let you know that, just like the trout in this picture, your trouting of Wikipedians is overdone.

Firestar464 (talk) 02:45, 29 June 2021 (UTC)

Wrong use of trout! Firestar464 was correct in reverting you unreferenced or erroneously referenced additions to the article about you (we both assume you actually are Kent Larson). And you are wrong to ask the content be restored. The reason I provided examples of articles about other MIT Media Lab faculty members is to demonstrate by example how wrong your over-lengthy descriptions of your accomplishments were. The only path open to you is to use the Talk page to ask for specific changes be made to the existing article. Specific means providing the exact wording you are requesting, with properly formatted references embedded. (D.A. Mark, MIT 73, 77, 81). David notMD (talk) 14:30, 29 June 2021 (UTC)

I created sections and fixed the NYTimes ref. Career at MIT has no references. A good start would be proposing references to that content. David notMD (talk) 14:49, 29 June 2021 (UTC)