User talk:Loebfellow

Re: conflict of interest WHOA! I just saw orangemike's message regarding a potential COI in which he claimed: "(created and expanded by an employee of the subject's publishers with a COI record a yard long)." Talk 22:30, 22 November 2013 (UTC). This is so untrue it is positively mindnumbing! How can this be stated as fact and acted upon without questioning the writer? Not fair. I am completely incompetent when it comes to writing for Wikipedia. So the various entries made were futile attempts by me, a novice, with no professional affiliation with Loeb except fondness. (Gottlieb does NOT work for Loeb. I don't work for Loeb. Never have, never will. Loeb isn't a publisher just a fellowship program at Harvard== I could have just as easily chosen the username Harvardfellow. There is absolutely NO TRUTH to the statement that this was created by an employee of the subject's publisher. ) PLEASE read the letters sent previously. I am feeling as though I have gone down Alice's rabbit hole and don't know how to get out! Help! I have created a new username, pixstories, but want to undo the damage done by having tried to contribute to Wikipedia. I wrote a neutral, fact driven page, made too many edits trying to comply with your publishing standards and naively picked a username that gave the false impression that I work for the Loeb fellowship. How do I can stop the false impression that I am Martin Gottlieb, that I or Gottlieb are employees of Loeb, that the piece is not neutral! I just had to do a lot of edits as I did not know how to properly use Wikipedia code. (I am a slow learner!) Thank you.(Loebfellow (talk) 20:37, 25 November 2013 (UTC))

Re: conflict of interest Hello Wikipedia Team; I am asking that you remove the conflict of interest conflict of interest icon for Martin Gottlieb for the following reasons: 1. neutral point of view I have provided a neutral, fact based article on this journalist Please look at it--not a single glowing adjective used! Just the facts. 2. autobiographies, you have written about I do not have an affiliation with ANY organization to promote this person. I am NOT Martin Gottlieb. I do NOT work for the Loeb Fellowship or have ANY affiliation with it. I chose that username, Loebfellow, with fondness not as a representative of that organization. It was an innocent mistake that I now see has led to confusion. 3. I was NOT paid to do this article--it was simply an earnest attempt to learn how to contribute to the Wikipedia encyclopedia with information about prominent American journalists. I had so much difficulty getting the details and coding right that I stopped doing it after Gottlieb. 4. verifiability of information All of the neutral facts of this journalist's career are linked to a news story detailing the shifts. 5. There is no bias, no promotion, NO conflict of interest present in this article--please read it as it is the BEST PROOF I can provide that there is NO conflict of interest as described by Wikipedia or anywhere else. Thank you.(Loebfellow (talk) 15:10, 25 November 2013 (UTC))

Hello, Loebfellow. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Martin Gottlieb, you may have a conflict of interest or close connection to the subject.

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For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Thank you. Hello-- I am out of my league here--I am wondering if my edits to the Martin Gottlieb page can be deleted or better yet the conflict of interest icon be removed. I wanted to learn how to contribute to Wikipedia and in the process of learning I discovered that both my username, Loebfellow, and my many fumbling edits created the incorrect impression of promoting an organization and a person. I was simply trying to learn how to use Wikipedia code and did so while writing a neutral, factual info about a person of interest in journalism. I now have managed to make him and Loeb look self-promoting.(I don't work for the Loeb fellow. Was one years ago and am fond of the experience. I do know Martin Gottlieb from that time but he didn't request this page. I did not tell him of my messy attempt to do so.) Argh. Please either delete the page or all of my edits. I admire Wikipedia and wanted to participate but now I am horrified that my interest in learning/contributing has unwittingly made others appear foolish. Please tell me how to undo what I have wrought. Thank you. (Loebfellow (talk) 22:36, 24 November 2013 (UTC))(Loebfellow (talk) > > 12:19, 23 November 2013 (UTC))}}

Welcome to Wikipedia. Because we have a policy against usernames that give the impression that the account represents a group, organization or website, I have blocked this account; please take a moment to create a new account with a username that represents only yourself as an individual and which complies with our username policy. It also appears that your account is intended to be used for the purpose of telling the world about an organization or cause that you consider worthwhile. Unfortunately, many good causes are not sufficiently notable for their own Wikipedia article, and all users are discouraged from editing in any area where they have an inherent conflict of interest. You may wish to consider one of these alternative outlets. If your username does not represent a group, organization or website, you may appeal this username block by adding the text below this notice. You may simply create a new account, but you may prefer to change your username to one that complies with our username policy, so that your past contributions are associated with your new username. If you would prefer to change your username, you may appeal this username block by adding the text below this notice. Thank you. -- Orange Mike &#x007C;  Talk  22:30, 22 November 2013 (UTC)

If you do come back, I would urge you to request the creation of an article on the Loeb Fellowships, and suggest sources for such an article, although with your own apparent conflict of interest you obviously should not create it yourself. -- Orange Mike &#x007C;  Talk  22:30, 22 November 2013 (UTC)

Yes, orange mike, I do appreciate your diligence in watching for conflicts of interest. I simply just choose a name that represented something I had been long ago--as stated previously there is no conflict of interest as I do not represent the Loeb fellowship. Just was one and look at it fondly. Kindly remove the conflict of interest marker. I will change my user name. Thank you.

Use unblock-un to let us prescreen it and we will unblock you to do it if it looks OK. Daniel Case (talk) 16:34, 23 November 2013 (UTC)