Brambmanu
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Ray Comfort
editHi, Brambmanu. I'd be more than happy to assist you by answering any questions your have about editing on Wikipedia, and with editing article's like Ray's. I'm not sure about when an account is "established" or not; I think it may have to do with how long you've been here and how many edits you've accumulated, so you might have to ask someone else about that (perhaps at the Help Desk), but I can assist you with the other matters.
The reason I removed the information I did (his birth info and his salary) is because of Wikipedia's Verifiability policy, which is one of the most important core policies you should read. It requires all information added to articles to be explicitly accompanied by a reliable, published sources, in particular in the form of inline citation. WP:Citing Sources and WP:Identifying Reliable Sources are also important to read in this regard. Wikipedia:Citation templates also provides an entire page of different ready-made citation templates for whatever source you're using (magazine article, newspaper article, online source, book, etc.) One cannot add original research--that is, material based on their personal knowledge, because readers have no way of verifying such material. The material in question was not supported by sources, so I removed it. In some cases, certain personal info can also be removed for reasons of privacy, particularly if the subject themselves requests it, even if it is properly sourced. I've removed such info for this reason on a couple of questions, most recently from the Michael Shermer article this past week.
Looking over the passage you indicated, I found that while the source given directs the reader to Living Waters, it is not to a specific file that supports the material, but a page of multiple media files that does not specify the one that supports the material, so I removed that material on the same grounds. If you'd like to add more detailed information on Ray's education and other activities, or if you'd like me to do so, you have to provide a source, as I described above. Although a certain amount of personal info can be supported by a subject's own personal site or writings, it is extremely important that material that could be seen as complimentary, promotional or aggrandizing be supported by a secondary source independent of the subject. For example, when I overhauled the Peter David article a couple of years ago, although I did add much material supported by his own books and columns, I removed the section on the awards he won completely, and did not restore it until I found sources for it independent of him, since a subject would not be the most objective or unconflicted source for the awards they. You can read more about this at WP:PRIMARY, which is part of the No Original Research policy. Regarding Ray, I don't think there's anything wrong with relying on him for some basic info like his education, but it's important to find secondary sources for anything that could things like accomplishments, awards, accolades, etc. If you can provide those sources, we can work together to add them. Nightscream (talk) 23:28, 1 March 2011 (UTC)
Bibliography spam
editI believe it has been established that you are a promotional agent/employee of Ray Comfort. Please stop dumping a list of Ray Comfort's books on his page as you do periodically. As discussed on the Talk page for Ray Comfort, we have a consensus that this lengthy list is not wanted because most of his books do not seem to be important enough to be worth noting. Wikipedia is not a dumping ground for information. -Sigeng (talk) 08:27, 11 March 2016 (UTC)
You have a conflict of interest
editBy your own admission you, Brambmanu (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log), are Ray Comfort's personal assistant.[1]
You were were warned about COI editing on 11 March 2016[2]
From 8 March 2016 to 17 February 2021 you did not edit Wikipedia, but now you are back with another COI edit.[3]
We do not forbid COI edits, (sometimes information from an assistant or even from Ray Comfort himself can help us to correct mistakes) but we do have requirements for how to edit when you have a COI, and you are not following the rules.
I am willing to work with you on this, but you need to start by reading and following Wikipedia:Conflict of interest and Wikipedia:Best practices for editors with close associations
The following is a standard warning template:
Hello, Brambmanu. 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:
- 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);
- avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see WP:Spam);
- 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.