User talk:EdwardJBell

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Happy editing! --Darwinek (talk) 23:26, 5 February 2021 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, EdwardJBell. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, 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. Specifically, I'm assuming you have some sort of relationship with One Earth due to the amount of external links you added to their page across various articles—is this correct? Perryprog (talk) 23:31, 24 February 2021 (UTC)

Hi Perryprog. Sincere apologies, there is no conflict of interest intended. Each of the external links are for educational reference relevant to the wikipage that I added it to. They have updated statistics of those ecoregions such as protected land areas, priorities for conservation, etc. I didn't see any harm in adding an additional external reference link to am ecoregion wikipage that provides more in depth information for that particular ecoregion. The links are not spam - they are directly relevant to the content of the wikipage, educational materials from a science based nonprofit organization.