User talk:RockfordCitizen

Your editing on Steve Stadelman
The reason that the conflict of interest tag was on there was because there was an editor editing the article whose username was the same as the article subject's last name, implying an affiliation. If there have been significant changes coming from an editor with an apparent conflict of interest, the community needs to know about it because it can affect the article's neutrality. Additionally, the BLP sources tag was on there because the article is a biography of a living person and did not have very many sources. Wikipedia takes verifiability on biographies of living people very seriously because of their sensitivity. Why did you remove these tags? Aspening (talk) 05:47, 18 February 2019 (UTC)

--- I removed the tags and updated information regarding the Senator's "tenure". I noticed the name as well, along with a few uncited lines, so I went to the Senator's website and ILGA.gov to verify and then added appropriate citations. The single citation at the last block of text for the "personal life" section of the page turns out to be just directly pulled from the Senator's website, so I formatted the text into a single block, instead of the shorter chunks, with the single citation encompassing it all. That was the major change made by the same name'd user. Since all the information is coming from a State of Illinois website, the neutrality was not altered in any sense. RockfordCitizen (talk)


 * But why did you remove the conflict of interest tag? Aspening (talk) 06:17, 18 February 2019 (UTC)

--- Conflict of interest would imply there was something unverifiable or subjective in the text. A user who happens to have the same name as the senator's last name copy and pasting what is on the Senator's website is no different than me, you, or any other user doing the same thing. This would be a different situation if there was no attached citation, or potentially even if the attached citation wasn't coming from a government website.RockfordCitizen (talk)