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Conflict of interest and spamming Misplaced Pages

Please do not add promotional material to Misplaced Pages. While objective prose about products or services is acceptable, Misplaced Pages is not intended to be a vehicle for advertising or promotion. Thank you. If you have a close connection to some of the people, places or things you have written about on Misplaced Pages, you may have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Misplaced Pages'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 avoid or exercise great caution when:

1. editing articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with;
2. participating in deletion discussions about articles related to your organization or its competitors;
3. linking to the Misplaced Pages article or website of your organization in other articles (see Misplaced Pages:Spam);

   and you must always:

4. avoid breaching relevant policies and guidelines, especially neutral point of view, verifiability, and autobiography.

For information on how to contribute to Misplaced Pages when you have conflict of interest, please see Misplaced Pages:Business' FAQ. For more details about what constitutes a conflict of interest, please see Misplaced Pages:Conflict of Interest. Thank you. --Orange Mike | Talk 15:18, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

Signing your edits

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December 2008

Welcome to Misplaced Pages. The recent edit you made to Nasal irrigation has been reverted, as it appears to be unconstructive. Use the sandbox for testing; if you believe the edit was constructive, please ensure that you provide an informative edit summary. You may also wish to read the introduction to editing. Thank you. JaGa 20:09, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

Sockpuppet investigation

I am suspecting you of changing your IP address deliberately in order to pretend you are a third party. I have reported this incident, see Misplaced Pages:Sockpuppet investigations/Grockl. You may want to comment there. --Hans Adler (talk) 01:54, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

March 2009

Please see Misplaced Pages's no personal attacks policy. Comment on content, not on contributors. Personal attacks damage the community and deter users. Note that continued personal attacks will lead to blocks for disruption. Please stay cool and keep this in mind while editing. Thank you.

This has been going on for long enough now. I see you got a conflict of interest warning from Orangemike almost a year ago, but you are ignoring it. I asked for advice with dealing you at the conflict of interest noticeboard. If you want to comment there, see WP:COI/N#Nasal irrigation. --Hans Adler (talk) 12:16, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

Since you seem to be confused : the warning refers to this personal attack. --Hans Adler (talk) 22:28, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

Sorry to say I am not a physician, but my mother would be pleased you think I am. I am obviously biased I believe in this but no I am not who you think I am. I thought it was improper to assume someone’s identity on Misplaced Pages. Perhaps you should sock puppet yourself. To resolve this matter I have requested that a medical authority figure rule on the matter and the relevency of pulsating nasal irrigation within the article on Nasal Irrigation. I will abide by the decision as long as you folks will.--Grockl (talk) 07:02, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

I added a heading for pulsating irrigation above your abbreviated edit. Is this acceptable to you? BTW please stop referring to me as a physician - I am not. Can I add the photo? --Grockl (talk) 07:10, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

Your recent edits

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Advice

You may not know this, but astroturfing campaigns on Misplaced Pages have the potential to backfire seriously. While Misplaced Pages cannot report about such incidents before they are reported elsewhere, Misplaced Pages has a very high Google rank, and user talk pages as well as article talk pages are indexed by Google. The more extensive the Misplaced Pages-internal discussions of the type of guerrilla marketing for Dr Grossan products that can be observed, the higher the chances that Google users searching for certain keywords will find them. If you are not actually payed by the manufacturer it's probably a good idea to stop now. If you are – by all means continue, as the result will be deserved. --Hans Adler (talk) 12:05, 19 March 2009 (UTC)