Avi Tuschman

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Conflict of interest

I am providing you with notice of our conflict of interest guideline, so you are aware of it.

Hello, Avi Tuschman. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you have an external relationship with some of the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest or close connection to the subject.

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Thanks again for discussing your concerns on the article Talk page. Briefly, conflict of interest is managed in Wikipedia in two steps: disclosure of the conflict, and offering edits on the Talk page for others to review instead of directly editing the article. You have already disclosed the relationship (namely, you are the subject of the article), so the first part is done. As for the "peer review" part, the way we handle that in Wikipedia, is to ask conflicted editors to avoid editing the article directly, and instead offer proposals for changes to the content on the article Talk page. You can do that easily - and provide notice to the community of your request - by using the "edit request" function as described in the conflict of interest guideline. I made that easy for you by adding a section to the beige box at the top of the Talk page - there is a link at "click here" in that section -- if you click that, the Wikipedia software will automatically format a section in which you can make your request. Thanks. You can reply here if you have any questions or want to discuss anything, or you can ask at the article Talk page. See you at the Talk page! Jytdog (talk) 12:46, 20 May 2015 (UTC)

Avi Tuschman, you are invited to the Teahouse!

Hi Avi Tuschman! Thanks for contributing to Wikipedia. Be our guest at the Teahouse! The Teahouse is a friendly space where new editors can ask questions about contributing to Wikipedia and get help from peers and experienced editors. I hope to see you there! Osarius (I'm a Teahouse host) Visit the Teahouse This message was delivered automatically by your robot friend, HostBot (talk) 17:32, 20 May 2015 (UTC)

May 2015

It appears that you have been canvassing—leaving messages on a biased choice of users' talk pages to notify them of an ongoing community decision, debate, or vote—in order to influence Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Evolutionary biology. While friendly notices are allowed, they should be limited and nonpartisan in distribution and should reflect a neutral point of view. Please do not post notices which are indiscriminately cross-posted, which espouse a certain point of view or side of a debate, or which are selectively sent only to those who are believed to hold the same opinion as you. Remember to respect Wikipedia's principle of consensus-building by allowing decisions to reflect the prevailing opinion among the community at large. Thank you. You should not be presenting an obviously biased opinion to people, telling them that an article on "an amazing person" is being deleted Joseph2302 (talk) 21:59, 20 May 2015 (UTC)

Hi Joseph2302 (talk), thanks for your comment here. I just read about canvassing. I just thought that having a few more editors familiar with this field of knowledge would help the decision be made more quickly. Definitely didn't mean to take one side or another. In any case, I will definitely not leave any other requests, except on the talk page's space that was just set up for that purpose. Best wishes, Avi

Whilst it might be true that more editors would be better, the tone of your comments were not neutral. Posting a message like "This article is up for deletion, if people want to have a look" is neutral, your message of "I'm an amazing person, come save my biography" isn't. Joseph2302 (talk) 22:11, 20 May 2015 (UTC)

Hi Joseph, I understand. May I post an article in that forum that says, "This article is up for deletion, if people want to have a look" and nothing more? Looking forward to your advice, which I will adhere to in either case

Yes, that seems fine. Joseph2302 (talk) 22:21, 20 May 2015 (UTC)

Many thanks for helping out this new user

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Hope to see you join! Harej (talk) 21:06, 10 July 2015 (UTC)