User talk:Nsmith1026

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Conflict of interest editing?
Hi. I see that you have about 80 edits, and in that set of edits you have at least 60 additions of the domain. Would you please explain what association, if any, you have with the site, and where you do please look to declare such association on your user page, see Conflict of interest.

Your additions look to be at best a directory listing. Can you please identify what makes that site authoritative and would make those links fall within the guidance of external links as I am not seeing it. I am just seeing a opportunistic linking to a site where the data and narrative is unsupported by evidence, and is more like microblog. — billinghurst  sDrewth  22:15, 27 March 2019 (UTC)

Hello! Thank you for getting in touch with me, as I am new to Wikipedia and was unaware of this possible conflict of interest. I am a writer for, a website that covers the experience of American basketball players who play outside the United States. Ballers Abroad is a website that has been around for about four years and racks up thousands of pageviews every single month. I believe this site, while not as old as other more authoritative basketball websites like Eurobasket.com and RealGM.com, provides a service that these websites don't - really getting to know players on a personal level. I would disagree with the point that it's just opportunistic linking - I believe links to a player's profile page are done in the same vein that a player profile to another 'authoritative' site like is commonly done with linking to ESPN.com and other sites that have player profiles. If this is not allowed or there are problems with me posting this link that is very, very similar to the other external links on the pages on which I made edits, let me know and I will discontinue doing this. I believe these links provide data that is otherwise unknown about the players in question, and provides an invaluable service. Please let me know what I need to do in regard to next steps, and thank you for reaching out. - nsmith1026  user talk:nsmith1026  19:41, 27 March 2019 (EST)