User talk:NickySpence

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Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, NickySpence. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the page Nicky Spence, 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, company, organization or competitors;
 * propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (see the request edit template);
 * disclose your conflict of interest 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 which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID).

Also please note that editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Kb03 (talk) 13:59, 1 February 2019 (UTC)

Your edits to Nicky Spence
Please stop adding promotional material to this article and especially material copied from other websites. It is a copyright violation and repeated instances of this can result in you being blocked. I see you have already been cautioned about inappropriate editing with a conflict of interest. However, you continue to persist in this behaviour rather than discussing these issues on the talk page of the article. Per the guidelines at Conflict of interest, you should declare your conflict of interest and propose additions or changes on Talk:Nicky Spence for neutral editors to evaluate and implement if they are considered appropriate. You could also bring your request(s) to the attention of members of WikiProject Opera here. Please refrain from adding any further material directly to the article.

On a personal note, I have long experience here (13 years) dealing with numerous opera singers and classical musicians and/or their agents who have attempted to turn their Wikipedia articles into promotional vehicles for themselves. That is what your personal website and your agent's website are for. Not only are your attempts to do this in violation of Wikipedia's guidelines and policies, they also seriously detract from the subject's image rather than enhancing it. Any neutral reader coming across the stuff you are pasting into Nicky Spence can see immediately that it is PR hype added by the subject or their agent, and frankly, reeks of desperation. Seriously,, cut it out. Voceditenore (talk) 08:10, 2 February 2019 (UTC)


 * I'm copying below your comment from my talk page, as I prefer to keep conversations in one place.




 * You're welcome. As for what you "did wrong"... you wrote about yourself. You then compounded this by adding blatantly promotional and copyvio text. You were repeatedly told about these problems with links to guidance pages, yet you continued anyway. You did not once engage with editors on Talk:Nicky Spence and repeatedly removed maintenance tags from the article . This is simply not on. I have since removed them after extensive copyediting and referencing, but I can assure you that if you make further attempts to edit that article in any way rather than proposing edits on the talk page, the COI tag is going right back up. Please note also that editing while logged out to evade scrutiny and continue edit-warring, e.g. is completely unacceptable. Voceditenore (talk) 17:55, 3 February 2019 (UTC)