User talk:Dukefacultyassistant

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I noticed that one of the first articles you edited was Christine Moorman, which appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article.&#32;Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

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Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, Dukefacultyassistant. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Christine Moorman, 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:


 * avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization, clients, or competitors;
 * propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the edit COI template);
 * disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see );
 * avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see );
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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. ThaddeusSholto (talk) 16:36, 16 January 2024 (UTC)


 * I'm really sorry I am still learning how to do this. A professor asked me to update her Wikipedia page. I've been working on it for a week and now it's all gone. How can I get unblocked and all my edits back? Again, I'm very sorry. Dukefacultyassistant (talk) 16:52, 16 January 2024 (UTC)

January 2024
Your account has been blocked from editing Wikipedia because your username, Dukefacultyassistant, does not comply with Wikipedia's username policy. '''Your username is the principal reason for the block. You are welcome to continue editing after you have chosen a new username that complies with Wikipedia's username policy.Please take a moment to either create a new account, or request a username change of your current account here.''' The new username that you choose must comply with Wikipedia's username policy.
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Thank you. Drmies (talk) 16:38, 16 January 2024 (UTC)


 * hi. I'm sorry. I'm new to this. I'm just trying to add information from Chris Moorman's CV. Is all of my work gone now? Dukefacultyassistant (talk) 16:44, 16 January 2024 (UTC)

And you are also blocked because you were asked to explain and disclose your conflict of interest, and you didn't do that. Finally, your edits--you seem to think that Wikipedia articles are like resumes; they are not. Drmies (talk) 16:39, 16 January 2024 (UTC)


 * Again, I'm sorry. I didn't even know anyone wanted to know anything. A professor asked me to update her Wikipedia page. I've been working on this for about a week. Are all the edits gone now? Do I have to redo them under a different account name? Dukefacultyassistant (talk) 16:49, 16 January 2024 (UTC)
 * If you do that you will be blocked for promotional editing. Please tell your professor that this is not your job, and if this is true, it's kind of shitty of her to ask you to do that. No, "updating" a Wikipedia page isn't really a thing--this isn't LinkedIn, and while we'd love to have PhD students working on our articles, it's something else to beef up resumes. If you wish to change your username, follow the guidelines above. If you wish to get unblocked, same--but explain how your edits will be in line with our guidelines for COI editing. And of course you'd have to properly disclose your COI following the guidelines linked above if you wish to edit your professor's biography or any other article with which you have a COI. Good luck. Oh, the article needs secondary sources of the reliable and independent kind: see WP:BLP and WP:RS. Drmies (talk) 21:50, 16 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Thank you for taking the time to explain. This was not something I was assigned. I was trying to be helpful and I should not have done it. 2603:6080:6405:8ED0:414E:617C:700E:2D36 (talk) 21:58, 16 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Well, you likely didn't know how things worked here. Wikipedia requires a different kind of writing from what academics are used to (argumentative writing and research), and for our tenure applications and annual reviews we write resume-style. On Wikipedia, biographies are just another kind of article, and they need to be written neutrally and with access to reliable, independent secondary sources. Drmies (talk) 23:15, 16 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Oh, for the record: that article was created by someone who I believe had a COI also, and was best known for writing up dozens of bare-bones promotional articles that basically started with a resume and didn't get much further. In other words, I won't blame you if you think that's what articles were supposed to look like, but we have so many that are so much better. Drmies (talk) 21:56, 16 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Thank you again. I am new here and I was just trying to do something nice. And I screwed that up because her page is worse than when I got my hands on it. Dukefacultyassistant (talk) 12:25, 17 January 2024 (UTC)