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Conflict of Interest

Hello John, I would suggest you read Wikipedia:Plain and simple conflict of interest guide. Thanks

Hello, I'm not John. But I have noticed your sudden wealth of objections to this article today, which was created by several authors (which I am one) over several years, and has never received a complaint before to my knowledge. Today out of the blue you demand 20-30 extra citations, with the threat of it's removal. And, over things like date of birth.

Can you explain why you chose to make so many demands to this article, this suddenly, when your user history suggests it's not something you've done before? I see one entry for you listed, where you seem to add personal information to a page (not cited, I think I noticed), and suddenly this attack on an article about an artist.

I don't know of anyone who especially profits from the article (COI ?), and I think it has a good degree of journalistic neutrality when rereading it - it's interesting stuff. Trying to have it removed is not in the spirit of information. If there's something you think should be in it, and have sources or something, then you're free to add, that's what Wikipedia is about, right?

I've had a number of other sources in addition to the journalism cited currently, mostly newspaper articles. But some of these I couldn't find links to online at the time. I suppose they could be linked with more research, but these are not particularly controversial things - again, why are you demanding citation for the artist's date of birth? Are you asking that a birth certificate be uploaded?

I think I'd like to remind you of Wikipedia's guidelines of not making excessive, 'hit and run' demands for citations, actually. While citations themselves are not an act of 'vandalism', trying to have an article flagged repeatedly without clear reason seems at least an act of harassment.

In the meantime, could you please stop trying to have the article flagged? I know that a graduate student in Hamburg recently used the article for her masters thesis. Interest like that makes me hope that the information is available to others, and real effort went into its accuracy. He's an interesting artist who's worked with other interesting artists like Uma Thurman and Iggy Pop. I just don't see your reasoning behind wanting it removed.

ThanksMusicEditor1234 (talk) 03:46, 17 August 2017 (UTC)

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