User talk:Eatonland
Hello, Eatonland. 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:
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Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. ThaddeusSholto (talk) 15:32, 19 October 2023 (UTC)
- No conflicts of interest. I am a retired professor. I belong to no organizations with external relationships to what I've been contributing. I've been posting photographs I shot of blues singers back in the 1960s and 1970s at festivals and other events, to enhance the entries. Eatonland (talk) 17:23, 19 October 2023 (UTC)
- In this edit summary you claim "Added a photograph that I took of Carl Martin in 1973" and credited this photo to "Jeff Titon". In this massive addition you added information about a "Jeff Titon" to Lazy Bill Lucas. There is definitely a COI when you keep adding your own name to articles either as photo credits or in actual content. Every photo you have added you put your own name in the caption which is unnecessary as the credit is already on the image information page. ThaddeusSholto (talk) 19:53, 19 October 2023 (UTC)
- Thanks for the suggestions. I didn't realize that the photo credit is already on the information page. Normally in publications the photo credit goes under the photo in the caption, as you know. My apologies; I will stop adding my name to the photo captions. Eatonland (talk) 20:26, 19 October 2023 (UTC)
- Re Lazy Bill Lucas, I intended to add informational content. I will remove my name and references to myself. Thanks for the clarification. Eatonland (talk) 20:32, 19 October 2023 (UTC)
- In this edit summary you claim "Added a photograph that I took of Carl Martin in 1973" and credited this photo to "Jeff Titon". In this massive addition you added information about a "Jeff Titon" to Lazy Bill Lucas. There is definitely a COI when you keep adding your own name to articles either as photo credits or in actual content. Every photo you have added you put your own name in the caption which is unnecessary as the credit is already on the image information page. ThaddeusSholto (talk) 19:53, 19 October 2023 (UTC)