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I am new to wikipedia and I was trying to respond to a COI on the page of Gavin Lurssen. Every time I hit "talk" on the your page it does not take me to a box where I can talk with you?
I had entered some factual information and did not realize it would be a conflict of interest since I am related to this individual. I had deleted a COI after reverting to a previous version and and did not realize this was in violation. I do apologize. I am still learning.
What do I need to do to remove the COI box at the top of this page. I just reverted to a previous version of this page which was started by an outside person. Hope this will satisfy the editors.
I apologize again for the mistakes I made.
Does this mean I cannot edit this page since I am linked to this person?
Please advise
The reason you didn't get an empty edit box when you went to my talk page is simple, my talk page already has contents. You have to Edit the page, preferably by adding a section onto the bottom of the page, just like you would edit an article.
As for the COI, I would advise you to check WP:COI, and WP:NPOV, before further editing of this article.
Thank you for reverting it back to (almost) how it was before your edits, I will take care of the minor difference that still exists (2 categories, down at the bottom). Wuhwuzdat (talk) 13:27, 28 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
If you have a close connection to some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Gavin Lurssen, you may have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, edits where there is a conflict of interest, or where such a conflict might reasonably be inferred from the tone of the edit and the proximity of the editor to the subject, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoidorexercise great caution when:
