User talk:StonefieldBreeze

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A few questions

 * 1) Have you previously edited using one or more other accounts? If so, what account or account?
 * 2) Do you know, or are you in any way personally connected to, any of the people you have edited about?
 * 3) Are you paid to edit Wikipedia, or is your editing a part of work that you are paid for? SmartSE (talk) 21:58, 7 September 2016 (UTC)


 * 1) I have edited Wikipedia before, however, I retired in good standing and am on the Missing Wikipedians list.
 * 2) I am fortunate to know the person that I am editing.
 * No, I have not been paid to edit Wikipedia.

I'm assuming this is related to the User_talk:Favonian. StonefieldBreeze (talk) 21:43, 8 September 2016 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, StonefieldBreeze. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places, or things you have written about in the article John Basedow, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic, and it is important when editing Wikipedia articles that such connections be completely transparent. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. In particular, we ask that you please:


 * avoid editing or creating articles related to you and your family, friends, school, company, club, or organization, as well as any competing companies' projects or products;
 * instead, you are encouraged to propose changes on the Talk pages of affected article(s) (see the request edit template);
 * when discussing affected articles, disclose your COI (see WP:DISCLOSE);
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In addition, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID).

Please take a few moments to read and review Wikipedia's policies regarding conflicts of interest, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, sourcing and autobiographies. Thank you. Lemongirl942 (talk) 03:38, 14 January 2017 (UTC)

File permission problem with File:John Basedow Weight Lifting.jpg
Thanks for uploading File:John Basedow Weight Lifting.jpg. I noticed that while you provided a valid copyright licensing tag, there is no proof that the creator of the file has agreed to release it under the given license.

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April 2017
Please do not remove maintenance templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to John Basedow, without resolving the problem that the template refers to, or giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your removal of this template does not appear constructive, and has been reverted. Thank you. Widefox ; talk 12:32, 15 April 2017 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, StonefieldBreeze. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places, or things you have written about in the article John Basedow, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic, and it is important when editing Wikipedia articles that such connections be completely transparent. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. In particular, we ask that you please:


 * avoid editing or creating articles related to you and your family, friends, school, company, club, or organization, as well as any competing companies' projects or products;
 * instead, you are encouraged to propose changes on the Talk pages of affected article(s) (see the request edit template);
 * when discussing affected articles, disclose your COI (see WP:DISCLOSE);
 * avoid linking to the Wikipedia article or to the website of your organization in other articles (see WP:SPAM);
 * exercise great caution so that you do not violate Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID).

Please take a few moments to read and review Wikipedia's policies regarding conflicts of interest, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, sourcing and autobiographies. Thank you. Widefox ; talk 13:08, 15 April 2017 (UTC)

April 2017
This is your only warning; if you use Wikipedia for soapboxing, promotion or advertising again, as you did at John Basedow, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. ''Almost WP:SPA WP:COI account, strange edit pattern of other challenging notability of another promo articles indicates undisclosed commercial editing, and possible sock/meat. COIN listing for long-term promo page.'' Widefox ; talk 13:12, 15 April 2017 (UTC)

Notice of Conflict of interest noticeboard discussion
There is currently a discussion at Conflict of interest/Noticeboard regarding a possible conflict of interest incident with which you may be involved. Thank you. Widefox ; talk 13:26, 15 April 2017 (UTC) StonefieldBreeze (talk) 17:34, 6 May 2017 (UTC)
 * The remark that "strange POV edit pattern of challenging notability of another WP:N failing advert article  indicates undisclosed commercial editing, potential for sock/meat." for Patrick Mackaronis is silly. I was the one who initially tagged the article on WP:N grounds (as the article was blatantly promotional and lacked sourcing), and it was uncontroversially deleted (Articles for deletion/Patrick Mackaronis).
 * I am fortunate enough to have met Basedow, as have thousands of others, given his line of work. This does not warrant a WP:COI tag.
 * That answer doesn't disclose, or deny. I repeat, can you confirm that you have a connection with the subject, or are paid to edit, or have any sort of COI, or any thing that should be disclosed per WP:TOU and/or WP:COI. Do you have, or had other accounts or edited as an IP here? This accounts editing history doesn't add up with a newbie account, so can you explain? Widefox ; talk 02:03, 10 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Here you claimed "No, I have not been paid to edit Wikipedia. Several of us have asked over several months about your connection with the subject, bearing in mind WP:COITALK.  Widefox ; talk 02:10, 10 May 2017 (UTC)
 * There is no COI to disclose or deny. I have not been paid to edit here. As mentioned earlier, I have edited Wikipedia before, however, I retired in good standing and am on the Missing Wikipedians list.StonefieldBreeze (talk) 21:19, 11 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Here you claim to know the subject. Did you read WP:COI ?  Widefox ; talk 16:26, 12 May 2017 (UTC)
 * As mentioned previously, I am fortunate enough to have met Basedow, as have thousands of others, given his line of work. I have no further connection with the subject. That said, I've noticed you've also COI tagged several other articles I've edited including Grant Cardone and most recently LittleThings . I've read WP:COI, but I don't understand how it would apply.StonefieldBreeze (talk) 01:46, 14 May 2017 (UTC)

May 2017
This is your only warning; if you use Wikipedia for soapboxing, promotion or advertising again, as you did at John Basedow, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. ''long term promo editing against "rough consensus" and maintenance, failure to convincingly disclose a COI, long term edit warring against consensus POV pushing/promo continuing until now. Take up at WP:COIN and follow procedures/guidelines of requested edits. Continuing this disruption may result in a block.'' Widefox ; talk 01:48, 10 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Please link to the consensus against the addition of the advocacy section. I cannot find one on the article's talk page.StonefieldBreeze (talk) 21:26, 11 May 2017 (UTC)

Sockpuppet investigation
Widefox ; talk 09:51, 10 May 2017 (UTC)