Talk:Robert Lyn Nelson

Conflict of interest editing, unreferenced blatant promotionalism
I have removed the unreferenced, repetitive, and blatantly promotional commentary which had been added to this article. The repeated attempts to use this article as a PR puff piece are entirely inappropriate. To those editors who have been adding it, if you have any affiliation whatsoever with the article's subject, including being paid by him to edit this article, please read Conflict of interest and follow the guidelines there scrupulously. Further, do not add quotes or evaluations of this person's work unless they are referenced to an entirely independent published source. His profile at the National Marine Sanctuary Foundation. is not independent. The promotional videos on YouTube masquerading as "documentaries" are not independent. Please read:
 * Wikipedia:Verifiability: "All quotations and any material challenged or likely to be challenged must be attributed to a reliable, published source using an inline citation; material not meeting this standard may be removed. This policy extends that principle, adding that contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced should be removed immediately and without discussion. This applies whether the material is negative, positive, neutral, or just questionable, and whether it is in a biography or in some other article."
 * Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons: "Material about living persons added to any Wikipedia page must be written with the greatest care and attention to verifiability, neutrality, and avoidance of original research."

Voceditenore (talk) 05:57, 7 June 2014 (UTC)


 * At least two accounts contributing to this article were blocked due to sockpuppeting based on paid editing contracted on an external website. The article itself was created by an SPA--could well be another sockpuppet of the paid editor, in light of the proliferation of COI here and the highly promotional nature of the edits.  Logical Cowboy (talk)

Copyright problem removed
Prior content in this article duplicated one or more previously published sources. The material was copied from: http://online.hotspringslifeandhome.com/display_article.php?id=656038, http://www.virtualstream.com/mag/bio.htm, http://www.diamondheadgallery.com/gallery-category/artists/robert-lyn-nelson. Copied or closely paraphrased material has been rewritten or removed and must not be restored, unless it is duly released under a compatible license. (For more information, please see "using copyrighted works from others" if you are not the copyright holder of this material, or "donating copyrighted materials" if you are.)

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 * Note the above notice applies to extensive copyvio which was added and subsequently removed and revision deleted in August 2018. Voceditenore (talk) 05:48, 17 July 2019 (UTC)

Copyvio and other issues
In 2018 a large amount of copyvio was removed and revision deleted (see above). Today, I have removed recently added copyvio from the following book:



I have also copyedited the remaining text to remove false assertions and promotional language. I strongly suggest that the editor who had added the most recent copyvio read our policies on copyright violation (Copyright violations), neutral point of view (Neutral point of view), and conflict of interest editing (Conflict of interest). Voceditenore (talk) 05:43, 17 July 2019 (UTC)