User talk:Oldnewnew

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Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Oldnewnew. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Steinway & Sons, you may have a conflict of interest or close connection to the subject.

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Please familiarize yourself with relevant content policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, verifiability of information, and autobiographies. Note that Wikipedia's terms of use require disclosure of your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation.

For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Thank you. Theroadislong (talk) 10:56, 24 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not affiliated to Steinway & Sons. I could ask you a similar question based on your edit history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Theroadislong. Are you affiliated to these things? And if you see my contributions you will see that I add facts and not POV material or gossip like User:Syek88 does. My edits are already in accordance with e.g. Wikipedia:No original research, which some of Syek88's are not as explained in The lead – Statement not in citation given and Removing conclusion by editor per Wikipedia:No original research. I'm 100% sure you havn't read the discussions on the talk page before you added the template above on my user talk page and made this edit. What you do is simple assuming that a person who only edits few articles must be affiliated with the subjects of these articles. It's a very easy conclusion you make but I don't think that Wikipedia has a rule saying that many edits in few articles means that the user has a conflict of interest. --Oldnewnew (talk) 15:09, 24 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Most of the edits I've made in the Steinway & Sons article have been adding cite templates and restoring dead links through the entire article. These technical adjustments count for hundreds of my edits. I have made many similar, technical edits in the Barack Obama article and would like to continue so I'm going to add the {{Connected contributor|Oldnewnew|Barack Obama|here=yes|declared=no|otherlinks=}} on the talk page of the Barack Obama article for you. Should I also add the template to the talk pages of the articles Weltausstellung 1873 Wien and New York Crystal Palace? --Oldnewnew (talk) 01:49, 25 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The Minor Barnstar

		The Minor Barnstar
		For making those small, but important, edits that most editors do not even think of making, I award you this Barnstar SMP0328. (talk) 02:50, 25 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much! Makes me happy. --Oldnewnew (talk) 03:03, 25 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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??? --Oldnewnew (talk) 01:16, 27 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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