User talk:LootieRun

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Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, LootieRun. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page World Runners Association, 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 article subjects for more information. We ask that you:

avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization, clients, or competitors;
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Also there is no "Wikipedia management". S0091 (talk) 21:23, 10 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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April 2024

Hello. This is a message to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions, such as the edit(s) you made to World Runners Association, did not appear to be constructive and have been reverted. Please take some time to familiarise yourself with our policies and guidelines. You can find information about these at our welcome page which also provides further information about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. If you only meant to make test edits, please use your sandbox for that. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you may leave a message on my talk page.

Again, you should not edit the article directly given you have a COI. If you continue to do so, I will request you be blocked from the article. You are welcome to join the deletion discussion but I strongly suggest presenting WP:THREE that show the article meets the notability criteria. S0091 (talk) 20:35, 11 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding this edit, and in particular its edit summary:

Someone comes up and changes the wording and puts up 2 different sources which are irrelevant to WRA. I'm not following how a source that covers a matter that relates to WRA is not relevant to WRA. You need to discuss that at the talk page and get some consensus. Further, you didn't add back sources; you deleted the entire section.

If that is the way forward, then this controversy section has no place in an informative article about the WRA. There's a line of thought that says there shouldn't be a stand-alone controversies section, but if the controversy has gotten coverage (11 sources, by your count), then it should be in the article.

This armwrestle you are subjecting us to is abject. Then break off the "armwrestle", or edit war, and discuss the matter at the article's talk page. Once consensus is reached among editors—and ideally, among independent editors—then the article can be changed as needed.

We would clearly rather not be on Wikipedia than receive such uncalled for abuse. Then you, as an editor, are free to leave. If you're implying the article should be removed, that depends on the outcome of the community's deletion discussion. The subject has no say in whether it has an article or not.

—C.Fred (talk) 21:28, 11 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on World Runners Association. This means that you are repeatedly changing content back to how you think it should be although other editors disagree. Users are expected to collaborate with others, to avoid editing disruptively, and to try to reach a consensus, rather than repeatedly undoing other users' edits once it is known that there is a disagreement.

Points to note:

Edit warring is disruptive regardless of how many reverts you have made;
Do not edit war even if you believe you are right.

If you find yourself in an editing dispute, use the article's talk page to discuss controversial changes and work towards a version that represents consensus among editors. You can post a request for help at an appropriate noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, it may be appropriate to request temporary page protection. If you engage in an edit war, you may be blocked from editing. S0091 (talk) 21:29, 11 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You have been blocked from editing for a period of 31 hours for edit warring. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make useful contributions.

During a dispute, you should first try to discuss controversial changes and seek consensus. If that proves unsuccessful, you are encouraged to seek dispute resolution, and in some cases it may be appropriate to request page protection.

If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please review Wikipedia's guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text to the bottom of your talk page: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}. —C.Fred (talk) 21:34, 11 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]