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Hello Mr. Berenson
Please do not remove content or templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Alex Berenson, without giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your content removal does not appear to be constructive and has been reverted. If you only meant to make a test edit, please use the sandbox for that.

Hi there Mr. Berenson. I understand that you staunchly advocate against cannabis legalization in any form and feel the need to defend yourself against criticism, but please refrain from editing your own biographical article in the future. You violated several Wikipedia rules not only by editing an article about yourself, which is a flagrant conflict of interest, but also by removing properly-sourced, neutral information as expressed by experts contradicting your claims. The article itself was not "slanderous" as you claim in your edit summaries, nor was it "partisan." It is not a valid use of Wikipedia to remove information that you find unfavorable simply because you find it unfavorable. Had you checked from where each claim made in the article was sourced, it would be clear to you that the claims were made by experts in their field, and the information was presented in a balanced manner.

Your book is controversial, whether you like it or not, and the overwhelming majority of experts with regards to the topic about which you have written strongly disagree with both your methods of analysis and your conclusions. You have every right to have an unpopular opinion about cannabis, to advocate against legalization, and to publish books expressing your views, but you do not have the right to remove valid information from your biographical Wikipedia article because you do not like it.

Please do not continue to perform information removal from your article. If you have valid secondary sources from which you can cite valid information supporting your claims, feel free to add it and properly cite it in appropriate Wikipedia articles, but you should not do so on your own article, per WP:AUTO. If you continue to remove information from your article or vandalize it in any way, you may face a permanent ban from editing Wikipedia. Matt18224 (talk) 18:15, 10 June 2019 (UTC)