User talk:Jonadabsmith

March 2016
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page London Students for Britain has been reverted. Your edit here to London Students for Britain was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove links which are discouraged per our external links guideline. The external link(s) you added or changed (https://facebook.com/students4britain) is/are on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. If you were trying to insert an external link that does comply with our policies and guidelines, then please accept my creator's apologies and feel free to undo the bot's revert. However, if the link does not comply with our policies and guidelines, but your edit included other, constructive, changes to the article, feel free to make those changes again without re-adding the link. Please read Wikipedia's external links guideline for more information, and consult my list of frequently-reverted sites. For more information about me, see my FAQ page. Thanks! --XLinkBot (talk) 17:49, 3 March 2016 (UTC)

Your recent edits
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Thank you. --SineBot (talk) 15:36, 4 March 2016 (UTC)

Tread lightly.
Your personal attacks, assumptions of bad faith and borderline outing behavior violate a variety of Wikipedia policies (see WP:NPA, WP:AGF and WP:Outing to name three), and - perhaps more to the point for you - do not advance your aim of keeping those articles in place. Rather than attacking other editors and making baseless accusations (e.g. that I'm a fake account), focus on bringing the articles in line with Wikipedia policies. Thanks. JohnInDC (talk) 18:43, 4 March 2016 (UTC)


 * Bit rich seeing as your ignore attacks on myself


 * I reiterate my advice and strongly suggest that you avoid personal attacks and veiled personal threats such as this. Continuing them will not lead to a happy result for your editing privileges.  Thanks.  JohnInDC (talk) 20:48, 4 March 2016 (UTC)

March 2016
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Thank you. &#124; Uncle Milty  &#124;  talk  &#124;  19:15, 4 March 2016 (UTC)


 * Is there a button to do that?
 * Yes. Read number 2 above. -- &#124;  Uncle Milty  &#124;  talk  &#124;  19:49, 4 March 2016 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia. It might not have been your intention, but your recent edit removed maintenance templates from London Students for Britain. When removing maintenance templates, please be sure to either resolve the problem that the template refers to, or give a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry, as your removal of this template has been reverted. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia, and if you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. &#124; Uncle Milty  &#124;  talk  &#124;  19:48, 4 March 2016 (UTC)

AN/I discussion
There is currently a discussion at Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. Cordless Larry (talk) 20:59, 4 March 2016 (UTC)

If Bondegezou places his name and place of work on his profile, he is hardly seeking to hide such, and it is hardly unreasonable for a student to ask to visit a professor to resolve some difference. I stress, that there was merely a request to visit, not an actual visit. Your implication that such would involve harassment is ridiculous. A friendly chat over a cup of tea is likely to be far more productive then people playing keyboard warriors while shouting acronyms as if they are the Supreme Court. User: Jonadabsmith

Signing your posts
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Thank you. Cordless Larry (talk) 21:40, 4 March 2016 (UTC)

Thank you!!

Conflict of interest
Hello, Jonadabsmith. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. In particular, please:


 * avoid editing or creating articles related to you and your circle, your organization, its competitors, projects or products;
 * instead propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (see the request edit template);
 * when discussing affected articles, disclose your COI (see WP:DISCLOSE);
 * avoid linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see WP:SPAM);
 * exercise great caution so that you do not violate Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID).

Please familiarize yourself with relevant policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, sourcing and autobiographies. Thank you. Cordless Larry (talk) 21:51, 4 March 2016 (UTC)

I have no COI - I merely wrote about interesting developments I have observed happening on campus, and would appreciate if you were more welcoming as opposed to harassing me! You don't make all this fuss about the page Students for Britain --Jonadabsmith (talk) 22:03, 4 March 2016 (UTC)
 * In that case, can you explain File:Luke Nash Jones.jpg? Thanks for the heads-up about Students for Britain. I will take a look at that now. Cordless Larry (talk) 22:06, 4 March 2016 (UTC)
 * See also this. Cordless Larry (talk) 22:44, 4 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Not to mention File:Nash-Jones NZ flag.jpg. Cordless Larry (talk) 22:49, 4 March 2016 (UTC)

Discussion please?
Hi Jonadabsmith, I work on conflict of interest and advocacy issues here in Wikipedia. I do this because Wikipedia is a widely-used reference work and managing conflict of interest is essential for ensuring the integrity of Wikipedia and retaining the public's trust in it. (That is why you posted these articles - right? Because a lot of people read Wikipedia?)  I try to educate editors about conflict of interest and advocacy, and how these problems harm the integrity of Wikipedia, and make it not trustworthy. COI is actually just a subset of advocacy - people come here wanting to use Wikipedia as a soapbox for all kinds of things - pharma reps come here to make their drugs sound great so they can make money, vegetarians come here and write nasty things about eating meat because...well in their view it is bad, and all kinds of activists come here to promote whatever they are interested in, because that is what they want - they want to get their message out. Almost all these advocates write bad Wikipedia content according to our policies - not neutral, badly sourced or unsourced, etc. These policies exist to ensure that Wikipedia content is trustworthy. But advocates generally care more about whatever issue brought them here, than they care about Wikipedia itself. I hope you can can see all that.

As in academia, COI is managed here in two steps - disclosure and a form of peer review. Please note that there is no bar to being part of the Wikipedia community if you want to be involved in articles where you have a conflict of interest; there are just some things we ask you to do (and if you are paid, some things you need to do). And everybody has to edit according to the policies and guidelines. Everybody. Editing is a privelege, and the community removes editing privileges from editors who won't follow the policies and guidelines. If a COI is driving that, we eliminate the conflict, we don't just manage it.

Disclosure is the most important, and first, step, of the management process. While I am not asking you to disclose your identity (anonymity is strictly protecting by our WP:OUTING policy) would you please disclose if you have some connection with the subjects you have edited? You can answer how ever you wish (giving personally identifying information or not), but if there is a connection, with please disclose it. After you respond (and you can just reply below), perhaps we can talk a bit about editing Wikipedia, to give you some more orientation to how this place works.

And again, if you don't understand why this matters, please ask me.

Please reply here - I am watching this page. Thanks! Jytdog (talk) 01:42, 6 March 2016 (UTC)

March 2016
Welcome to Wikipedia. Constructive contributions are appreciated, but, in this recent edit to Luke Nash-Jones, you removed Articles for deletion notices from articles or removed other people's comments in Articles for deletion debates. This makes it difficult to establish consensus. If you oppose the deletion of an article, please comment at the respective page instead. Thank you. CAPTAIN RAJU ( ✉ ) 22:22, 4 March 2016 (UTC)

Sockpuppet investigation
GABHello! 22:48, 4 March 2016 (UTC)