Pat Ament

Cleaning Up The Mess

The best way to "clean up the mess" is to work with an editor who has no conflict of interest and a neutral point of view, but who will listen to your concerns. I am willing to help. Contact me. Jim Heaphy (talk) 05:41, 2 November 2009 (UTC)

June 2009

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For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. For more details about what, exactly, constitutes a conflict of interest, please see our conflict of interest guidelines. Thank you. 99.178.163.130 (talk) 04:20, 10 June 2009 (UTC)

As a thought (because I have had the same problems) what you might do is fix the article, then revert it to the unfixed version. Then ask someone to revert your last revert. I think that fits under the COI terms, because you are permitted to revert what you have done under Non-controversial edits point 4.

"Editors who may have a conflict of interest are allowed to make certain kinds of non-controversial edits, such as:

4. Reverting or removing their own COI edits. Cleaning up your own mess is allowed and encouraged." Keith Henson (talk) 15:49, 5 September 2009 (UTC)