User talk:ElizabethHoffstadt

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I received a nice welcome note from you, though it indicated I may be blocked from editing a page (Brett Icahn) due to a conflict of interest.

I’m a securities lawyer, and was updating pages of a few individuals and companies to reflect changes resulting from a recent IPO (Bausch Health and Bausch & Lomb). I do not work for this company, I just noticed the information was out of date when doing additional research after having read about the IPO. I updated Joe Papa’s page to reflect his position changes and was doing the same for John Paulson and Brett Icahn when I noticed Icahn’s page is extraordinarily out of date (just from reading his current director profile for icahn enterprises). I don’t have a conflict of interest- I don’t work with or for, nor do I represent, Brett Icahn or any companies he has affiliations with. I just don’t like that his page is flat wrong and I wanted to update it with the best publicly available information, which is what would make Wikipedia useful. I took a bunch of time making edits to his page that were rejected, and as a new editor, that’s pretty discouraging. ElizabethHoffstadt (talk) 02:19, 25 June 2022 (UTC)