User talk:Knightrob

Welcome!
Hello, Knightrob, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:
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Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or to ask for help on your talk page, and a volunteer should respond shortly. Again, welcome! NatureBoyMD (talk) 15:58, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

uBiome
Hi Knightrob, I appreciate your feedback on my talk page. As my user profile says, I'm always up for discussing my edits. I see you're new to Wikipedia, so it is important for you to read the Five Pillars of Wikipedia. The current version of uBiome's article contains entire sections without any references to objective third party sources. For example, "Products and Services" only has a link to uBiome's own website, which is not allowed as a source under Wikipedia policy. Finally, your edit removed a tag at the top of the page that indicated the neutrality was disputed, which should have been allowed to remain. Andrew327 00:50, 20 March 2015 (UTC)


 * Hi Andrew, What you say makes sense. I will do my best to help you fix that one up.


 * Regarding your recent edits: Remember that self published sources are not allowed in Wikipedia articles, and most blogs are also banned. For example, I had to remove the link to this page: http://ubiome.com/pages/team Andrew327 12:20, 20 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Similarly, you are not allowed to reference primary sources, such as when you added 45 CFR 46. Andrew327 12:33, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

Conflict of interest and paid editing
Hi Knightrob. I work on conflict of interest issues here in Wikipedia, along with my regular editing, which is mostly about health and medicine. Your edits to date are promotional with regard to uBiome, an article that has been plagued by conflicted editing. I'm giving you notice of our Conflict of Interest guideline and Terms of Use, and will have some comments and requests for you below.

Hello, Knightrob. 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. Editing for the purpose of advertising or promotion is not permitted. 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, company, organization or competitors;
 * propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (see the request edit template);
 * disclose your COI when discussing affected articles (see WP:DISCLOSE);
 * avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see WP:SPAM);
 * do your best to comply with 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). Thank you.

Comments and requests
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. 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).

Disclosure is the most important, and first, step. 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 uBiome, directly or through a third party? You can answer how ever you wish (giving personally identifying information or not), but if there is a connection, please disclose it. After you respond (and you can just reply below), I can walk you through how the "peer review" part happens and then, if you like, I can provide you with some more general orientation as to how this place works. Please reply here, just below, to keep the discussion in one place. Thanks! Jytdog (talk) 03:18, 14 November 2017 (UTC)

Edit war warning
Your recent editing history at uBiome shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war. To resolve the content dispute, please do not revert or change the edits of others when you are reverted. Instead of reverting, please use the talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. The best practice at this stage is to discuss, not edit-war. See BRD for how this is done. If discussions reach an impasse, you can then post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection.

Being involved in an edit war can result in your being blocked from editing&mdash;especially if you violate the three-revert rule, which states that an editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Undoing another editor's work—whether in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material each time—counts as a revert. Also keep in mind that while violating the three-revert rule often leads to a block, you can still be blocked for edit warring&mdash;even if you don't violate the three-revert rule&mdash;should your behavior indicate that you intend to continue reverting repeatedly. Jytdog (talk) 03:55, 14 November 2017 (UTC)