SuzanneCampbell

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, SuzanneCampbell. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places, or things you have written about in the article Robert Sungenis, 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:

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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. I strongly suggest you stop editing the article directly and restrict yourself to suggestions on the talk page Theroadislong (talk) 20:59, 18 May 2016 (UTC) No problem.

I will make my suggestions on the talk page instead. Please accept my apologies about making the direct edit. I am not a regular user of Wikipedia and am not familiar with the copious amounts of rules. FIY I have already identified myself as a person with a conflict of interest. Just a person who is familiar with Sungenis' work. I noticed that many people over the period of time of this article have tried to make edits, however, have not identified themselves as having conflicts of interest.

I hope that this is the correct location for me to make an observation: the individuals responsible for the main writing of this article also appear to have a conflict of interest: a strong dislike for Sungenis' viewpoints. Very often in the history of this article's edits, anyone trying to make positive edits about Sungenis are immediately identified as having a conflict of interest and their edits are undone. However, anyone reading the editing history of the article could identify that the main editors clearly dislike Sungenis. This is also a conflict of interest. It appears to be the only reason this article even exists on Wikipedia is because of the strong dislike for Sungenis of the main editors. The main reason Sungenis is "a person of interest" by Wikipedia standards is that his viewpoints are not of the "mainstream". However, MANY people in America have non-mainstream ideas, and they aren't listed in Wikipedia. I don't think Sungenis is well known enough, to warrant a Wikipedia article. There are many other people much more well known then Sungenis that no one has put on Wikipedia.

I noticed while while trying to shuffle through the edit history that this article was suggensted for removal a few years ago.SuzanneCampbell (talk) 15:52, 20 May 2016 (UTC)