User talk:Nsqrd

Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, Nsqrd. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, 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 WP: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. Thank you. Guy (help!) 22:02, 4 February 2020 (UTC)
 * I'm going to echo the above. Clearly you have a COI here. &#32; Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 14:27, 5 February 2020 (UTC)

The edits I made were neutral and provide facts to support each. I made a mistake in editing the content directly, rather than requesting the edits (respectful apology). As soon as I provided an argument against unreliable and opinion-based sources, I’m accused of COI, whitewashing, promoting, and advertising. COI is tricky in this environment, because anyone creating and/or editing this page that has worked with any other publisher on a research project has a COI (contractor of a competitor or opponent). Clearly, COI exists within the foundation of this group without any disclosure… Discrediting the work of the thousands of reputable individuals who’ve published with IGI Global is highly irresponsible considering their processes, rigor, and pricing equals that of the large traditional publishers. IGI Global was never listed on the original (and respected) Beall’s list or any other vanity/print on demand publisher list for that matter. Nsqrd (talk) 19:34, 5 February 2020 (UTC)

February 2020
You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you use Wikipedia for promotion or advertising. Guy (help!) 15:04, 5 February 2020 (UTC)