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It's not completely forbidden to edit articles on which one has a conflict of interest, but you absolutely have to stick to uncontroversial edits. You will understand that it's not exactly ideal if the Director of Communications of a highly controversial, anti-social PR company makes massive changes to the article on that company directly. I have reverted them. If anything needs changing beyond updating a name or fixing a typo, propose it on the talk page and let someone else do it once there is a consensus. Hans Adler 10:41, 3 February 2013 (UTC)

Misleading use of 'Minor'

Most of your edits were marked minor but not all, so you were trying to distinguish them. On the other hand, you marked some major changes as minor - clearly wrong and confusing/misleading to editors. You also failed to explain your edits in edit summaries. I would have reverted you in any case for COI issues as well as other problems. See WP:BRD please, yet another reason for you not to edit again but discuss any suggested changes on the talk page. Dougweller (talk) 13:53, 3 February 2013 (UTC)

Jlkaely, I see you have been editing The Heartland Institute and using the "minor edit" tag in the edit summaries. This is improper as your edits were not merely typo corrections or the like. Please stop. – S. Rich (talk) 06:09, 8 August 2013 (UTC)

August 2013

Please do not add promotional material to Wikipedia, as you did to The Heartland Institute. While objective prose about beliefs, products or services is acceptable, Wikipedia is not intended to be a vehicle for soapboxing, advertising or promotion. Thank you. Jim, when you seek to add your own name to the infobox you are promoting yourself and violating WP:COI guidelines. I urge you to read and follow these (and other WP editing) guidelines. - S. Rich (talk) 15:09, 8 August 2013 (UTC)

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Peter Gleick

Reversal of my edits of August 19 claimed "extremely biased sources and unfounded statements." False. My media sources were: HuffPost, NYTimes, The Atlantic, The Guardian, the San Jose Mercury News -- all acceptable sources at Wikipedia as "trusted." The "institutional sources" included the Pacific Institute, which was Gleick's organization, as well as The Heartland Institute and Fakegate.org (a clearing house of information from other sources and original content from Heartland). If Gleick's organization is cited, then so should Heartland with factual information. If this revision of Gleick's page is illegitimate because the sources are "extremely biased," then his entire entry should be taken down.