User talk:Wikiattitude

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Hello, Wikiattitude, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, your edit to Liberty Counsel does not conform to Wikipedia's Neutral Point of View policy (NPOV). Wikipedia articles should refer only to facts and interpretations that have been stated in print or on reputable websites or other forms of media.

There's a page about the NPOV policy that has tips on how to effectively write about disparate points of view without compromising the NPOV status of the article as a whole. If you are stuck, and looking for help, please come to the New contributors' help page, where experienced Wikipedians can answer any queries you have! Or, to ask for help on your talk page, and a volunteer should respond shortly. Below are a few other good links for newcomers: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you have any questions, check out Where to ask a question or ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome! - MrX 16:59, 26 October 2015 (UTC)
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Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, Wikiattitude. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Liberty Counsel, you may have a conflict of interest. People with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, see the conflict of interest guideline and frequently asked questions for organizations. In particular, please:


 * avoid editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, its competitors, or projects and products you or they are involved with;
 * instead, propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (see the template);
 * avoid linking to the Wikipedia article or 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, the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use require disclosure of your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation.

Last but not least: All contributors must not contribute content that violates conflict of interest laws (just as all contributors must respect copyright). The Unfair Commercial Practices Directive is valid throughout the European Union. In a German court decision in 2012 (that also relied on the directive) regarding Wikipedia: "The court held that when a company edits a Wikipedia article, the resulting text falsely creates the impression that the edit has no business-related purpose. By implication, the judges found that the average reader of Wikipedia articles expects to find objective and neutral information." That is a very very important condition, comparable to the FTC Guide" that consumers are likely to believe reflects the opinions, beliefs, findings, or experience of a party other than the sponsoring advertiser”. This expectation by consumers of neutral information on Wikipedia, requires that companies not write "their" WP articles for PR/marketing purposes.

Editors who are compensated for their contributions should make the disclosure by placing the  template at the top of the talk page of affected articles and filling in the parameters. They should also supply this information as part of a list on their user page of all their paid contributions.

Please familiarize yourself with relevant policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, sourcing, and autobiographies. ''I noticed that you have focused your editing on Liberty Counsel and Mathew Staver. If you are being paid for editing these articles you must disclose it as explained in WP:PAID. If you are connected to the organization or person, you are encouraged not to edit the articles, but if you do, you must do it in a way that respects our WP:NPOV policy and reliable source guidelines.'' - MrX 20:15, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

Reliable sources
Hi Wikiattitude -

Please go read our policies about reliable sources and neutrality - WP:RS and WP:NPOV. Following them is pretty much a requirement to edit Wikipedia. Kevin Gorman (talk) 20:36, 26 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Look: disclose any COI you have, read the policies I linked you, don't try to remove entire chunks of information because you can't access a link to the freaking Chicago Tribune, and slow down your editing in general. Otherwise your edits are not going to stick, and you are likely to be blocked. Kevin Gorman (talk) 21:14, 26 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Kevin Gorman, I share your concerns. These obvious attempts to whitewash certain articles violates multiple policies, especially our most sacred one, NPOV. We may need to protect these articles, because some dishonesty on the part of the involved parties can be expected, especially considering their actions in the real world. Topic bans may also be necessary. We may also be dealing with several socks. --  04:17, 27 October 2015 (UTC)
 * - please point me to any other problematic editors on my talk page and I'll take appropriate action, including autoblocks or rangeblocks if necessary. For now, I've indefinitely blocked Wikiattitude until they meet the conditions I set at the bottom of this page. Kevin Gorman (talk) 20:14, 27 October 2015 (UTC)

October 2015
Your recent editing history at Liberty Counsel shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war. To resolve the content dispute, please do not revert or change the edits of others when you get reverted. Instead of reverting, please use the article's talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. The best practice at this stage is to discuss, not edit-war. See BRD for how this is done. If discussions reach an impasse, you can then post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection.

Being involved in an edit war can result in your being blocked from editing&mdash;especially if you violate the three-revert rule, which states that an editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Undoing another editor's work—whether in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material each time—counts as a revert. Also keep in mind that while violating the three-revert rule often leads to a block, you can still be blocked for edit warring&mdash;even if you don't violate the three-revert rule&mdash;should your behavior indicate that you intend to continue reverting repeatedly. Doug Weller (talk) 10:59, 27 October 2015 (UTC)

Biographies of living persons
Please do not add defamatory content to Wikipedia, as you did to Morris Dees, especially if it involves living persons. Thank you. Doug Weller (talk) 11:03, 27 October 2015 (UTC)


 * Please read WP:BLP. Sources need to clearly meet our criteria at WP:VERIFY and WP:RS, and a white supremacist organisation clearly can't be used as a source. Doug Weller (talk) 11:11, 27 October 2015 (UTC)

October 2015
You have been blocked indefinitely from editing because it appears that you are not here to build an encyclopedia. If you think there are good reasons why you should be unblocked, you may appeal this block by first reading the guide to appealing blocks, then adding the following text below this notice:. Kevin Gorman (talk) 20:11, 27 October 2015 (UTC)
 * You've refused all advice that has been given to you so far. If you demonstrate that you recognize what the problems with your editing have been and confirm you've read the linked policies, agree to abide by them, and demonstrate some understanding of them, I will unblock you. Kevin Gorman (talk) 20:13, 27 October 2015 (UTC)