User talk:IonicFusion
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Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, IonicFusion. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Ekos Research Associates, 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 article subjects for more information. We ask that you:
- avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization, clients, or competitors;
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Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicizing, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Your edit to the article's talk page makes clear that you have a conflict of interest when writing about Ekos Research. Please follow Wikipedia's guidelines explained above. Schazjmd (talk) 14:53, 22 April 2025 (UTC)
- Not sure why there would be a COI. I couldn't care less about politics till 2 months ago. Until I randomly decided to run numbers on weird looking data. IonicFusion (talk) 22:12, 22 April 2025 (UTC)
- The conflict of interest is that you created and run a website dedicated to exposing Ekos. That indicates a bias that might influence your edits to related articles. Schazjmd (talk) 22:46, 22 April 2025 (UTC)
- I never stated that im going after Ekos. I'm unbiased, the website was created to find and expose any pollster which isn't doing things correctly. While making the website I also found out that Mainstreet is also doing the same thing.
- Do media outlets get considered COI for reporting the news?
- I just don't want us removing critical information that would otherwise go unrecognized. I wouldn't have noticed the controversies if it wasn't on the Ekos wikipedia page.
- So to me, it sounds like someone is trying to cover up their past. Frank graves wikipedia page doesn't even have all the info that was removed from the Ekos page. IonicFusion (talk) 23:51, 22 April 2025 (UTC)
- The conflict of interest is that you created and run a website dedicated to exposing Ekos. That indicates a bias that might influence your edits to related articles. Schazjmd (talk) 22:46, 22 April 2025 (UTC)