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Thanks for your note. I am just trying to get the entry on Sociological Forum correct. I hope you will not delete the latest changes. Someone else was also trying to make changes and all changes were deleted. I have made the most minor of corrections. We have to get the publisher right. Thanks! KAC57 (talk) 16:43, 19 April 2022 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, KAC57. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Sociological Forum, 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. Randykitty (talk) 17:41, 19 April 2022 (UTC)

There is no conflict of interest. The prior contributor--the one whose work you are blocking or deleting -- is not affiliated with the journal. Someone who answered my emails yesterday invited ME to correct the errors in the Sociological Forum entry knowing full well I am the editor. They thought you would honor my changes since you refused to honor the other person's changes. They specifically told me that, as editor correcting an error, there was NOT a conflict of interest. I, the publisher and the Eastern Sociological Society cannot understand why you will not let us correct the error in our journal description. Wiley publishes this journal. Wiley-Blackwell does not publish anymore. The Blackwell family has not be affiliated with Wiley since the 2010's and is no longer publishing. Check the journal website. There is no mention of Blackwell: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/15737861 Please, please allow us to correct this error. 2601:8C:4001:3A00:14DE:C6CB:B7D9:477 (talk) 22:24, 19 April 2022 (UTC)

There is no conflict of interest. The prior contributor--the one whose work you are blocking or deleting -- is not affiliated with the journal. Someone who answered my emails yesterday invited ME to correct the errors in the Sociological Forum entry knowing full well I am the editor. They thought you would honor my changes since you refused to honor the other person's changes. They specifically told me that, as editor correcting an error, there was NOT a conflict of interest. I, the publisher and the Eastern Sociological Society cannot understand why you will not let us correct the error in our journal description. Wiley publishes this journal. Wiley-Blackwell does not publish anymore. The Blackwell family has not be affiliated with Wiley since the 2010's and is no longer publishing. Check the journal website. There is no mention of Blackwell: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/15737861 Please, please allow us to correct this error. KAC57 (talk) 22:27, 19 April 2022 (UTC)

Blocked as a sockpuppet

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for abusing multiple accounts as a sockpuppet of User:Xuguo163 per the evidence presented at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Xuguo163. Note that multiple accounts are allowed, but not for illegitimate reasons, and any contributions made while evading blocks or bans may be reverted or deleted.

If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please read the guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text below the block notice on your talk page: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}.  -- RoySmith (talk) 01:23, 20 April 2022 (UTC)

This user is asking that their block be reviewed:

KAC57 (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

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Request reason:

My name is Karen A. Cerulo. I am a professor at Rutgers University and the editor of a journal called Sociological Forum.

I have just received a message from someone identified as RoySmith saying that I, under my Wikipedia account name KAC57, have been indefinitely blocked from editing for abusing multiple accounts as a sockpuppet of User:Xuguo163. I am confused and dismayed by this message. Xuguo163 is an account associated with a graduate student at Rutgers named Xu Guo. We are not the same person. Xu approached me a while back and asked if she could update and correct the Wikipedia entry for Sociological Forum as she takes an interest in the journal. She cleared the information she planned to enter with me and made a revision. Every time Xu made an addition or correction to the Wikipedia entry for the journal, it was blocked by RandyKitty. She was first told that she entered copyrighted information. She did not, but nevertheless removed the information in question. She asked to enter the journal’s five year impact factor as, for sociology journals, it is the more commonly used metric; she was denied. She asked to correct the name of our publisher; she was denied. Time after time, Xu responded to the objections of RandyKitty, but each time, her revised entry was blocked by RandyKitty and Xu herself was blocked from editing for 36 hours. When I saw what was happening, I wrote to Wikipedia. I had an extended correspondence with Geofrey Lane trying to explain that, if nothing else, the publisher of Sociological Forum had to be corrected. Wiley-Blackwell is not the publisher of the journal. The Blackwell family sold their interests in publishing to John Wiley and Sons. For a brief period, the Wiley-Blackwell name was used for publishing. But since the 2010s, our journal (and many others) are published by Wiley. At Geofrey Lane’s suggestion, I established my own Wikipedia account (KAC57) on April 18th, I believe. Geofrey wrote that even though I was the editor of Sociological Forum, I could correct an error and not be considered as having a conflict of interest. I did so and RandyKitty blocked my attempts as he had done for Xu. Now, I have been informed I am blocked indefinitely from editing on Wikipedia. I am not technologically inclined and have never edited on Wikipedia before. I have no idea what a sockpuppet is. But I ask that you a) be aware that Xu Guo (Xuguo163) and Karen A. Cerulo (KAC57) are two different people, b) that you allow one of us (preferably Xu) to correct the publisher of Sociological Forum, and c) that you unblock me since I did nothing wrong. Please let me know what you decide. Karen Cerulo cerulo@sociology.rutgers.edu or ckru57@gmail.com

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