User talk:Arthur blumfield

Please do not add unreferenced or poorly referenced information, especially if controversial, to articles or any other page on Wikipedia about living (or recently deceased) persons, as you did to Jean-Yves Béziau. You have been repeatedly restoring alleged statements by Arnon Avron and Laurent Lafforgue, both living persons, providing sources that violate WP:BLPSPS. Neither personal webpage of J.-Y. Béziau nor a hidden link on the webpage of a conference organized by him can substantiate alleged non-public statements of third persons. Please, acquaint yourself with WP:BLPSPS. Thank you. 80.110.124.29 (talk) 17:57, 17 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop adding unreferenced or poorly referenced biographical content, especially if controversial, to articles or any other Wikipedia page, as you did at Jean-Yves Béziau. Content of this nature could be regarded as defamatory and is in violation of Wikipedia policy. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia. WP:BLPSPS states "Never use self-published sources – including but not limited to ... websites ... – as sources of material about a living person, unless written or published by the subject (see WP:BLPSELFPUB). ... Posts left by readers are never acceptable as sources. ..." Thus, the website of J.-Y. Béziau can be used as a source of material about Béziau, but cannot be used to confirm whether Arnon Avron made some statement, which statement he made (if any), and which statement he gave his permission to publish (if any). Similarly, a hidden link on the website of the conference Universal Logic organized by Béziau cannot be used to confirm whether Laurent Lafforgue made some statement, which statement he made (if any), and which statement he gave his permission to publish (if any). If no verifiable confirmation exists regarding these statements, they cannot be posted on Wikipedia. Both Avron and Lafforgue should be the only ones controlling public statements made on their behalf. Thank you. 80.110.124.29 (talk) 17:57, 18 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Managing a conflict of interest[edit]

Hello, Arthur blumfield. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places, or things you have written about in the article Jean-Yves Béziau, 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. Fyddlestix (talk) 02:14, 19 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Arthur, the above message is auto-generated boilerplate, I'd like to add an explanatory note and ask you a couple questions here: I added the template because I noticed that almost all of your edits relate to the page on Jean-Yves Béziau, and that your edits seem focused on defending him in the recent controversy about his work. I also noticed that you uploaded several images as your "own work," which also appear on Béziau's personal website. Were these images really your own work, and do you have a connection to the subject of this article (Béziau)? Thanks in advance! Fyddlestix (talk) 03:10, 19 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]