User talk:Macannihilator

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Do not use external links in body of articles
Please read the external links guideline. External links should not be used in articles. You can cite them as references, or (if they meet WP:ELYES) be added in an "External links" section. Schazjmd  (talk)  18:29, 31 December 2019 (UTC)

Sorry! Fixed. Lesson learned.

Are you a paid editor with a conflict of interest?
Hello Macannihilator. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, but you have not complied with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. Paid advocacy is a category of conflict of interest (COI) editing that involves being compensated by a person, group, company or organization to use Wikipedia to promote their interests. Undisclosed paid advocacy is prohibited by our policies on neutral point of view and what Wikipedia is not, and is an especially egregious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat SEO.

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Regardless, if you are receiving or expect to receive compensation for your edits, broadly construed, you are  required by the Wikimedia Terms of Use to disclose your employer, client and affiliation. You can post such a mandatory disclosure to your user page at User:Macannihilator. The template Paid can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form:. If I am mistaken – you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits – please state that in response to this message. Otherwise, please provide the required disclosure. In either case, do not edit further until you answer this message. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 12:23, 19 January 2020 (UTC)

Hi. No, I am not a paid editor, and I have no conflicts of interest. I have not received any direct or indirect compensation in any form for my writing here or on any other Wikipedia articles, nor do I expect to receive any.

I have sent you a note about a page you started
Hello, Macannihilator

Thank you for creating Jim Coan.

User:Doomsdayer520, while examining this page as a part of our page curation process, had the following comments:

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Is this message boilerplate? Have you read the article? I made a few minor revisions to make the tone even more encyclopedic, but I scrutinized it in search of "promotional" or "self-referential" material, and found none. If you can point to something specific, I'll happily fix it, but I teach college and high school history and English and am accustomed to detecting and eliminating bias in written works. I have compared this article to articles on scientists of similar standing, and the only significant difference is that this one is missing the standard scientist biographical infobox. Coan *is* notable; aside from attracting press coverage, his research is cited in every introductory college psych textbook published since the late '90s. (I know, because I taught psychology from 1996-2009, and my wife is now majoring in psychology.) Wikipedia editors did well to catch Coan contributing to his own article, though it was just innocent infobox material. He did the right thing by removing the material at your request. Time to unflag?~ (Message delivered via the Page Curation tool, on behalf of the reviewer.)

---  DOOMSDAYER 520 (Talk&#124;Contribs) 20:40, 30 March 2020 (UTC)