Maschner

November 2016

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you remove or blank page content or templates from Wikipedia, as you did at Herbert D.G. Maschner. Yintan  13:52, 28 November 2016 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Maschner. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places, or things you have written about in the article Herbert D.G. Maschner, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic, and it is important when editing Wikipedia articles that such connections be completely transparent. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. In particular, we ask that you please:

• avoid editing or creating articles related to you and your family, friends, school, company, club, or organization, as well as any competing companies' projects or products;
• instead, you are encouraged to propose changes on the Talk pages of affected article(s) (see the {{request edit}} template);
• when discussing affected articles, disclose your COI (see WP:DISCLOSE);
• avoid linking to the Wikipedia article or to the 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 take a few moments to read and review Wikipedia's policies regarding conflicts of interest, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, sourcing and autobiographies. Thank you. Alexf^(talk) 14:37, 28 November 2016 (UTC)

You have been blocked from editing for a period of 31 hours for persistent vandalism. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make useful contributions. If you think there are good reasons why you should be unblocked, you may request an unblock by first reading the guide to appealing blocks, then adding the following text to the bottom of your talk page: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}.  Alexf^(talk) 14:37, 28 November 2016 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia: check out the Teahouse!

Hello! Maschner, you are invited to the Teahouse, a forum on Wikipedia for new editors to ask questions about editing Wikipedia, and get support from peers and experienced editors. Please join us! Joe Roe (talk) 14:42, 28 November 2016 (UTC)

Email from user

On 28 November 2016, after the temporary block, the user sent email to the blocking admin. As email is used solely for private matters, and Wikipedia dealings are to be transparent, it is reproduced here:

"you blocked me from editing a page about me. But it was completely vandalized. Someone reverted it to an old version. But, how do I delete a page about me that I never approved and for which is both inaccurate and regularly being vandalized?"

As stated above, you are in a conflict of interest, and edit war. If you disagree with some comments or information in the article, you should not delete properly sourced material. Instead, discuss it in the article's Talk Page and establish a consensus, making your voice be heard. Before you do, please read: Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons. -- Alexf^(talk) 15:37, 28 November 2016 (UTC)