User talk:Silver Island

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Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, Silver Island. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Argyronisos, 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:


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Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. DanCherek (talk) 15:20, 22 January 2023 (UTC)


 * Thanks Dan and I appreciate your detailed response. My intention was to provide some more factual info on the island itself (the mythology, the Church and Lighthouse, and what it is now used for now - Silver Island Yoga. We have been running the island as a yoga retreat centre for the last 10 years.  Please feel free to take down whatever you feel that I have added that is a conflict of interest or let me know what you would like changed/ removed. Please know that it is not my intention to use this for any advertising or publicising our business at all. I have added the COI disclosure button to the Silver Island Yoga piece, but that may not be what you wanted from me, so I will wait to hear back from you before proceeding any further.
 * Thank you very much.
 * Kind regards,
 * Claire Christie Silver Island (talk) 04:26, 23 January 2023 (UTC)
 * I see you have already taken everything down so I cannot add the COI piece. Thanks. Silver Island (talk) 04:27, 23 January 2023 (UTC)

January 2023
 Your account has been indefinitely blocked from editing because of the following problems: the account has been used for advertising or promotion, which is contrary to the purpose of Wikipedia, and your username indicates that the account represents a business, organisation, group, or web site, which is against the username policy.

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