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![]() | This template should be placed on article talk pages or draft talk pages. |
![]() | For paid editors, use {{Connected contributor (paid)}} instead. |
If you are user Example, and you have just checked an article for COI by user John Smith who has declared his connection at the diff with revision ID 442212827, use this:
{{Connected contributor|checked=
{{subst:today}}
by {{u|
|user=John Smith|declared=442212827}}{{subst:REVISIONUSER}}
}}
This produces the following:
![]() | The following Wikipedia contributor has declared a personal or professional connection to the subject of this article. Relevant policies and guidelines may include conflict of interest, autobiography, and neutral point of view. Their edits to this article were last checked for neutrality on 20 September 2020 by Example.
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For a complete overview of parameters, see below. For a real example, the Assurant talk page shows {{connected contributor}} and {{connected contributor (paid)}}.
Use this template when dealing with a general conflict of interest, including financial conflict of interest that does not involve being paid to edit Wikipedia. It can be used whether there is an actual (confirmed) or an apparent COI, but if the COI is unconfirmed do not add it without justifiably strong suspicion.
The template adds articles to Category:Articles with connected contributors.
![]() | Do not use this template solely to identify an article subject as a Wikipedian. |
|checked=
|checked=31 December 2016 by Example
|checked={{subst:today}} by {{User link|{{subst:REVISIONUSER}}}}
|user=
|user=John Smith
|alt1=
|alt2=
|alt3=
|alt4=
|user=
.|editedhere=
|declared=
|otherlinks=
|banned=
|small=
The above example was for listing a single COI editor.
This template is capable of listing up to 10 editors. Assign a number between 1 and 10 to each editor listed, and substitute that value for X in each of the parameters listed below. Parameters otherwise work as described for single-listing above.
|alt1=
...|alt4=
parameters above) in a multi-listing.{{Connected contributor
| checked = 31 December 2016 by {{User link|Example}}
| User1 = WikiWriter2458 | U1-EH = yes | U1-declared = 442212827 | U1-otherlinks = | U1-banned = no
| User2 = John Smith | U2-EH = no | U2-declared = no | U2-otherlinks = | U2-banned = no
| User3 = Janet Doe | U3-EH = yes | U3-declared = yes | U3-otherlinks = | U3-banned = yes
| User4 = xx | U4-EH = yes | U4-declared = no | U4-otherlinks = | U4-banned = no
}}
This code produces the following:
![]() | The following Wikipedia contributors may be personally or professionally connected to the subject of this article. Relevant policies and guidelines may include conflict of interest, autobiography, and neutral point of view. Their edits to this article were last checked for neutrality on 31 December 2016 by Example.
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