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This is an old revision of this page, as edited by AdamC387 (talk | contribs) at 15:49, 16 November 2006. The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

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Conflict of Interest

Hi, since I tried to give reasons for the edits I made and you disregarded them and assumed vindictiveness on my part, I'll give it one last shot and try to be calm and reasonable. First, I'm most certainly not a conservative and can't stand Bill Kristol. I only keep an eye on his page because I made a casual edit a couple months back regarding Straussianism and noticed the page was attracting a ton of vandalism, a lot of it antisemetic. Having reviewed your edits, it appears that most of your edits are links to what appears to be your own website. Regarding this, you might consult, Wikipedia:Conflict of interest and WP:SPAM. Even if it is not your intention to cook up links to your own work, you'll find that both WP:EL and WP:RS both explicitly disallow blog links as sources. The reason is quite simple. Anyone can accuse X of Y on their blog, and then post "many accused X of Y" on Wikipedia with a link to the blog. That's not how it's supposed to work. My edits were motivated by nothing more than a desire to uphold the integrity of Wikipedia. If my edits offended you I apologize. I came down hard on you after reviewing your edits and discovering what appeared to be systematic self-promotion. As per WP:AGF, which requires that we assume good faith in other editors, I'll assume you simply weren't aware of these policies and were not engaged in anything sinister. I hope you assume the same good faith in my actions.--Beaker342 15:42, 16 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Beaker342, thank you for posting this. I'm definitely new to Wikipedia and perhaps some of the ways I was making edits was not appropriate, and upon reading this above I'm comfortable with making edits to many of my entries to bring them into compliance with standard practice.

With respect to the Kristol Fresh Air quote, would you be amenable to leaving the quote but removing the link to my blog and replacing it with links to multiple sources (or perhaps some arguably authoritative source?) as evidence for the fact that Kristol has been criticized for what he said? Also perhaps balancing it with a quote where he was accurate in what he said?

As for my other entries, I'd have to think about them. Personally, even after reading what you've suggested I do think that my Barbara Bush edits are appropriate. I didn't want to call her a name on the site, but I wanted to make an argument that one would be justified in thinking negative things about her, bringing the more partisan elements of the argument outside Wikipedia.

I'm not sure why the link on the Lillian Verner website was inappropriate... can you help me understand that?

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