User talk:Mon2ier

Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, Mon2ier. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Mark Monmonier, 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. Please do not edit your own page. GreaterPonce665  (TALK) 22:46, 18 September 2021 (UTC)

I saw you posted a reply somewhere else, so I copied my comment here.
Hello Dr. Monmonier,

Thanks for taking time to write a detailed reply to my comment. Please note that the reply should have been posted on your talk page, but I assume that this is simply an issue with you being new to wiki-editing. Help on how to edit wikipedia and other general info can be found at WP:HELP.

As for you editing your own page, this is not considered kosher per wikipedia standards. Even Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales attracted controversy by editing his own page. see here.

The best way to change something when you have conflict of interest is to add a comment on talk-page of the article. Please see more details on Conflict of interest.

Preferences to certain part (e.g. name) are not something you can have control over. Since it is your government name, it will stay.

I welcome you to wikipedia and hope you will contribute by editing in areas of your interest. Thanks. GreaterPonce665 (TALK) 17:21, 20 September 2021 (UTC)

Reply ‪to GreaterPonce665‬
Is this reaching you? I don't see any buttons or links for sending a reply. But thanks for your interest.

I received three emails with your reply, but they seem identical.

I feel suitably and duly admonished. Thanks for the gentle admonishment.

It is cricket to suggest changes to someone--someone with whom there is no power relationship? Or propose in one's Talk section? Can anyone read this? No objection. Just curious.

I guess the prohibition against self-editing is related to a 'thin line' of sort. Whether I crossed it seems moot. It seems that a restriction against self-editing could be baked into the software. As for rendering of my name, I guess I can complain on Facebook. Seems a minor issue, though I am leery about letting "government" decide. If it's spelled right, I should be satisfied. The worst I've seen in Monmanure. Really stinks. :)

Mon2ier (talk) 00:33, 21 September 2021 (UTC)


 * Hello Dr. Monmonier,
 * Yes, this conversation is publicly visible online here.
 * The best way to request a change is via a template; details here. Writing on talk pages is an option too, but above method will get someone's attention (talk page could be less visible/unseen).
 * Sorry to hear about the Monmanure; my own name has been autocorrected to pathetic a few times now :(
 * Please feel free to reach me at here or my talk page. Thanks. GreaterPonce665  (TALK) 02:33, 21 September 2021 (UTC)