User talk:Batesgill

January 2017
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July 2018
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Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, Batesgill. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the page Bates Gill, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:


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In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. – Aranya (talk) 00:06, 31 October 2019 (UTC)

changes to Wiki page
I have recently changed my affiliations, so wish to have this reflected on my Wiki page. I made these changes using the edit function, but would like to have the warning label removed from the top of my Wiki page

At the end of December 2019, my affiliation with Chatham House ended. In January 2020, I started an affiliation with the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) in London.

This would result in two changes. First, in the second paragraph of the "Professional life" section, I changed the first sentence to read: "He is currently a Professor with the Department of Security Studies at Macquarie University and a Senior Associate Fellow with the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) in London."

Second, in the section entitled "Professional affiliations", I added the new affiliation to the list of "current affiliations" so that the first bullet reads: "Senior Associate Fellow, Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)"

Here is a reference to the new affiliation which can be entered on to the Wiki page as evidence: https://rusi.org/people/gill

Batesgill (talk) 21:10, 29 April 2020 (UTC)

Help to remove notice at top of my wikipedia page
adminhelp Is it possible to remove the notice which is at the top of my wiki page? The information on my wiki page is correct and not embellished. However, if editors/administrators believe some language should be changed, I am happy to do so if they are able to let me know. I am avoiding removing the notice myself because I recognize that would be a COI. However, I am not sure how to go about it. Thank you for your help on this.--Batesgill (talk) 04:33, 1 November 2020 (UTC)

I would like to remove the notice which is currently at the top of my wikipedia page. The information on my wikipedia page is accurate and contains no embellishments. However, if other editors/users believe the page is not accurate or contains embellished information, I would ask that they let me know what it is so we can remove it. I would remove the the notice at the top of the wikipedia page myself, but understand that would constitute a COI. However, I do not know how to have the notice removed, so I hope you can help. Thank you for your advice. --Batesgill (talk) 04:37, 1 November 2020 (UTC)
 * The notice is there because you chose to edit the page directly. It's good that you recognize that your COI makes it a bad idea for you to remove the notice yourself. In the future, if you see something on the page that you think needs correction, please make an edit request on the talk page, do not edit the page.
 * There are additional problems with the page. Note that the "Personal life" section has no references. References are also missing for many of the sentences elsewhere in the page. This lack of inline citations is a violation of the policies on living-person biographies.
 * I would also question whether the tone of the article is as neutral as it should be. I believe considerable work by other editors, basing their content on what independent sources say about you, is needed before there is any chance of removing the COI warning at the top.  — jmcgnh (talk) (contribs) 05:25, 1 November 2020 (UTC)