User talk:LSparger

Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, LSparger. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Purdue University College of Liberal Arts, 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 or competitors;
 * propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the request edit template);
 * disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see Conflict of interest);
 * avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see Spam);
 * do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

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. Polyamorph (talk) 19:25, 30 October 2021 (UTC)


 * I have blocked your colleague, User:Wallflower2220--please accept this at face value, given the technical evidence. You have made a kind of attempt at disclosing your COI; now please it properly, following the guidelines at WP:DISCLOSE. And please make sure that your edits are neutral, and properly sources, lest you be blocked either from editing articles directly, or editing Wikipedia altogether. Thank you. Drmies (talk) 00:58, 7 February 2022 (UTC)

Thank you for your note. I am trying to add the appropriate connected contributor text but seem to be struggling to add it in the right manner and location LSparger (talk) 01:34, 7 February 2022 (UTC)
 * No, thank you. The template you added was for the article--I took the liberty of adding it to Talk:David Reingold; I could add it to the Purdue article, but that seems like overkill, since you only made one edit there. Please look at your user page--I added the userboxes and filled out the two articles that you edited (the third is now a redirect). If you don't approve, feel free to undo my edits; either way, you can remove the template below. As far as editing neutrally goes, Wikipedia is an encyclopedia; the kinds of resumes and other documents we use in higher ed are simply not OK here. For starters, material needs secondary sourcing, not primary documents. Thank you, Drmies (talk) 02:08, 7 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Appreciate your assistance and patience. Can you point me to guidance re secondary sourcing vs primary documents? Thanks so much. LSparger (talk) 02:43, 7 February 2022 (UTC)
 * The most important link here is Biographies of living persons, and the section on Reliable sources. In general, primary sources should never be used, unless it's for someone Tweeting their date of birth or something like that. A good rule of thumb is this: if a secondary sources hasn't reported on something, it's not to be included. For your subject, that means that statements in the text referenced by Purdue-related sourcing really are not acceptable. Thank you. Drmies (talk) 02:58, 7 February 2022 (UTC)

Got it. Thank you. LSparger (talk) 03:41, 7 February 2022 (UTC)

Connected contributor
LSparger (talk) 01:32, 7 February 2022 (UTC)