Talk:Colin Leys

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Some proposed changes
Recent edits I made to this article were reverted on Jan 16 2018, apparently because of concern about a potential COI. I did have a professional relationship with the subject of the article in the past, working together on an annual publication. This working relationship ended 7 years ago and did not involve payments or compensation from or to the subject of the article. I not receiving payment or compensation for edits to this article. The annual publication, The Socialist Register, is cited/linked at then end of this article due to the subject's involvement with this publication but this citation/link was in place long before I made any edits.

To the extent the above may represent an ongoing COI I am suggesting someone else consider the last edits made and whether some or all of the subsequent reversions should be undone. I believe the edits were minor and uncontroversial, in most cases adding citations or verification. In particular, one edit was a simple typo correction -- correcting "in1960" to read "in 1960" -- which should be probably be restored regardless of the status of the other edits.

Daz1234 (talk) 22:28, 16 January 2018 (UTC)

❌ Nonspecific request In most cases, typos are allowed to be changed by COI editors. Unfortunately, your typo correction was not the first edit you made by itself. If you had, the revert point could have been taken up to but not including the typo. Which would have allowed the other edits to be removed and your typo correction to remain. As the typo was included with other edits, it was removed. As far as the rest of the material goes, no doubt wanted to err on the side of caution. Old COI relationships cast long shadows — even ones that ended long ago. Your best bet is to bring the information here and allow others to add it for you. Go ahead and reopen this request when you've gathered what you'd like to add to the article. Regards,  Spintendo  ᔦᔭ   23:18, 16 January 2018 (UTC)