User talk:Tspooky

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Managing a conflict of interest[edit]

Hello, Tspooky. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Anthony Shaffer (intelligence officer), 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:

avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization or competitors;
propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the {{request edit}} template);
disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see Wikipedia:Conflict of interest#How to disclose a COI);
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do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Firefangledfeathers (talk) 22:20, 25 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Answer - I have no "conflict of interest" - I see an anonymous editor continuing to post inaccurate, misleading and false information from an IP - the person is not an editor just some faceless person.

I have provided factual information that I KNOW is true based on documents and (duh) my own life.

This sort of thing continues to be why people make fun of Wikipedia - even when presented with factual information you all are slow to react...the same case here.

You all should not accept edits from anonymous IP addresses as a rule...yet you do. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tspooky (talk • contribs) 16:23, 26 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Mr. Shaffer^[a], I am grateful to you for your efforts to improve Wikipedia, and it's exciting to have you here. As you'll see above, our policies recommend against editing articles about yourself. If I were you, I would take that recommendation as a near-absolute rule; many people editing articles about themselves are more eager to edit than they are to learn about Wikipedia's policies and guidelines and end up being blocked/banned. If you use the edit request template on your article's talk page, I and other editors would be happy to incorporate your suggestions to the extent allowable by Wikipedia policy.

I am about to revert your edits to Anthony Shaffer (intelligence officer). I am hopeful that some or most of the content can be restored, but there were multiple issues with the edits including unsourced content, unreliable sources, and malformed references. I encourage you to start your edit requests with what you feel are the most important changes, supported by the most reliable sources. Firefangledfeathers (talk) 20:22, 26 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

^ I am going to assume while discussing with you that you are Anthony Shaffer. Since I can't know for sure, I also have to act as if edits you make are potentially being made by an impostor.

I'm going to assume you are - again - without any interest in facts. YOU have refused to post FACTUAL adds and REPOSTED false information...I have REPEATEDLY provide you corrections and YOU continue to refuses to accept them. I will next been seeking legal advice for your continued posting of false and malicious information... and I AM reposting, now, the correct information that you ignore. My adds ARE sourced with citations.

Discretionary sanctions alerts[edit]

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You have shown interest in articles about living or recently deceased people, and edits relating to the subject (living or recently deceased) of such biographical articles. Due to past disruption in this topic area, a more stringent set of rules called discretionary sanctions is in effect. Any administrator may impose sanctions on editors who do not strictly follow Wikipedia's policies, or the page-specific restrictions, when making edits related to the topic.

For additional information, please see the guidance on discretionary sanctions and the Arbitration Committee's decision here. If you have any questions, or any doubts regarding what edits are appropriate, you are welcome to discuss them with me or any other editor.

This is a standard message to notify contributors about an administrative ruling in effect. It does not imply that there are any issues with your contributions to date.

You have shown interest in post-1992 politics of the United States and closely related people. Due to past disruption in this topic area, a more stringent set of rules called discretionary sanctions is in effect. Any administrator may impose sanctions on editors who do not strictly follow Wikipedia's policies, or the page-specific restrictions, when making edits related to the topic.

For additional information, please see the guidance on discretionary sanctions and the Arbitration Committee's decision here. If you have any questions, or any doubts regarding what edits are appropriate, you are welcome to discuss them with me or any other editor.

Firefangledfeathers (talk) 22:21, 25 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

June 2021[edit]

Hello and welcome to Wikipedia. When you add content to talk pages and Wikipedia pages that have open discussion (but never when editing articles), please be sure to sign your posts. There are two ways to do this. Either:

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Thank you. Firefangledfeathers (talk) 20:23, 26 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

ANI Notice[edit]

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is Tspooky: Legal threats and COI. Thank you. Firefangledfeathers (talk) 06:45, 9 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

July 2021[edit]

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for making legal threats or taking legal action.

You are not allowed to edit Wikipedia while the threats stand or the legal action is unresolved.

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 ~~~~}}. HighInBC ^{Need help? Just ask.} 07:23, 9 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

[1] I am going to assume while discussing with you that you are Anthony Shaffer. Since I can't know for sure, I also have to act as if edits you make are potentially being made by an impostor.

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