User talk:Michael Roth MdB

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Hello, Michael Roth MdB, and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate encyclopedic contributions, but some of your recent contributions, such as your edit to the page Michael Roth (politician), have removed content without an explanation. If you'd like to experiment with the wiki's syntax, please do so in the sandbox rather than in articles.

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Your username

Hi. Your username imples that you are the subject of the article you edited. This conflicts with a number of policies and guidelines, to wit WP:AUTOBIOGRAPHY which strongly discourages writing about yourself and WP:COI, which prevents editing with a conflict of interest. Moreover you are deleting material w/o providing a proper reason. Simply stating "it's out of date" does not suffice. Thirdly, since the article you edited is about a public figure, your username conflicts with WP:REALNAME, which prevents impersonation of these public figures. You are encouraged to expound on any and all concerns you have about the article talk page. Please keep that in mind when editing. Thanks. Kleuske (talk) 14:31, 10 July 2018 (UTC)

Update reverted

Hello Kleuske, I don't get your point. Why do you revert the complete update of the article? Lot of information is simply out of date, especially functions and memberships. Links don't work. We can discuss about individual changes, but blocking the whole update is not in the service of truthful information. Michael Roth MdB (talk) 14:38, 10 July 2018 (UTC) The points:

• WP:REALNAME, I'm not at all sure that you are who your username implies you are (to wit Michael Roth MdB, Staatsminister) I would think the man has better things to do than to argue on Wikipedia. See also "On the internet, nobody knows you're a dog", which explains the issue in a witty way. WP:REALNAME explains it in a more formal way.
• WP:COI/WP:AUTOBIOGRAPHY if you are who your username implies, you have a conflict of interest and for that reason writing about yourself is strongly discouraged.
• We have talk pages where you can explain any and all concerns you have with the content of that article. Simply removing large parts of the article with the explanation "it's all wrong" (or somesuch) is not the way to go.

HTH, HAND. Kleuske (talk) 14:45, 10 July 2018 (UTC)

July 2018

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