Michael Mishaw

July 2019

Please do not add promotional material to Wikipedia, as you did to If My Heart Had Windows (Patty Loveless album). While objective prose about beliefs, organisations, people, products or services is acceptable, Wikipedia is not a vehicle for soapboxing, advertising or promotion. Thank you. creffett (talk) 23:44, 24 July 2019 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Michael Mishaw. 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. creffett (talk) 23:44, 24 July 2019 (UTC)

June 2022

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to add promotional or advertising material to Wikipedia, as you did at You Can't Make Old Friends (album), you may be blocked from editing. Binksternet (talk) 16:07, 3 June 2022 (UTC)

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you use Wikipedia for promotion or advertising, as you did at Walk Tall (album). Binksternet (talk) 19:05, 3 June 2022 (UTC)

Self-promotion since 2008

You have been adding inline URLs to Michael Mishaw appearances for more than a decade now, for instance this example from March 2008. You must stop this promotional activity immediately.

The first problem is that inline URL links are not supposed to be used on Wikipedia at all per WP:CS:EMBED. The second problem is that you are promoting yourself rather than contributing for the purpose of making the encyclopedia better for the reader. People who persistently promote themselves are seen as WP:NOTHERE and are usually blocked.

You were active at Special:Contributions/Mougee during 2008–2010, and you were also active in 2008 with your current username. Both usernames did the same thing at the 5th Dimension biography,[1][2] which is a violation of WP:MULTIPLE. Binksternet (talk) 19:29, 3 June 2022 (UTC)

You also used the Ann Arbor IP Special:Contributions/2602:306:37FA:A340:BD80:EEB0:F3C8:19BC to do the same thing in 2015. Binksternet (talk) 19:41, 3 June 2022 (UTC)

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you insert a spam link. Persistent spammers may have their websites blacklisted, preventing anyone from linking to them from all Wikimedia sites as well as potentially being penalized by search engines. Sundayclose (talk) 22:42, 14 June 2022 (UTC)

Your recent editing history at Living with War shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war; that means that you are repeatedly changing content back to how you think it should be, when you have seen that other editors disagree. To resolve the content dispute, please do not revert or change the edits of others when you are reverted. Instead of reverting, please use the talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. The best practice at this stage is to discuss, not edit-war. See the bold, revert, discuss cycle for how this is done. If discussions reach an impasse, you can then post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection.

Being involved in an edit war can result in you being blocked from editing—especially if you violate the three-revert rule, which states that an editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Undoing another editor's work—whether in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material each time—counts as a revert. Also keep in mind that while violating the three-revert rule often leads to a block, you can still be blocked for edit warring—even if you do not violate the three-revert rule—should your behavior indicate that you intend to continue reverting repeatedly. Sundayclose (talk) 22:46, 14 June 2022 (UTC)