User talk:Jrrowing

Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, Jrrowing. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places, or things you have written about in the article John Riley (rower), you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic, and it is important when editing Wikipedia articles that such connections be completely transparent. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. In particular, we ask that you please:


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Also please note that editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you.  Scr ★ pIron IV 22:09, 6 November 2017 (UTC)

I am new to this.....I do have a COI. I am John Riley and someone made this page/bio. I didn't want it, but now I'm faced with correcting the incorrect content that people have added or changed Jrrowing (talk) 22:45, 6 November 2017 (UTC)

Ok Jrrowing (talk) 23:16, 6 November 2017 (UTC)

John Riley (rower)
I am new to this.....I do have a COI. I am John Riley and someone made this page/bio. I didn't want it, but now I'm faced with correcting the incorrect content that people have added or changed. Jrrowing (talk) 22:42, 6 November 2017 (UTC)


 * I would strongly urge that you revert the page to the one where I commented - rvt unsourced material back to last good version - please do not re-add this material - discuss first on talk page to get consensus). Any further changes should be proposed on the article talk page so that other editors can decide what, if anything, to add or remove. This is on Wikipedia and it is not "your" article. If you continue to revert the changes of experienced editors, you may be blocked for edit warring, so let us revert to a reasonably clean sheet and progress from there.  Velella  Velella Talk 22:47, 6 November 2017 (UTC)
 * No one was editing the source of this bio when it was created. I only found out about it this past spring.  Presently, it is accurate.  I do not intend to edit it ever again.  Even though there is nothing negative regarding my rowing bio I want it off wiki.  How does one achieve that?  Jrrowing (talk) 22:55, 6 November 2017 (UTC)


 * I would suggest you do two things. First restore the article to the condition it was in before you started editing it as at here. Then the simplest option is to copy and paste at the very top of the article the following   .  After seven days, provided nobody objects, the article will be deleted. If another editor does remove the deletion tag, there are other avenues that you can explore. Have as a look at WP:AFD as one possibility.  Velella  Velella Talk  23:09, 6 November 2017 (UTC)

It is not "my" artical. Presently, it is a factual account of my life as a rower and coach. I didn't create this. The data was incomplete and incorrect when I was informed of it's existence. How can you edit data you don't know about? Jrrowing (talk) 23:10, 6 November 2017 (UTC)

Ok Jrrowing (talk) 23:16, 6 November 2017 (UTC)

Apology
My apology on that. I misread your edits. Please leave an wp:edit summary which will help others to understand the intent behind your edit and allow for easier searching in the wp:page history. It's annoying, but I have my wp:preferences set to force me to leave an edit summary. I restored your edits. Cheers Jim1138 (talk) 23:46, 6 November 2017 (UTC)


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 * I hope that helps. --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 16:06, 7 November 2017 (UTC)