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:::Thankyou. That's a good answer, and smooths over the worries I had.
:'''7b.''' For the purposes of this question, assume you have a conflict of interest with subject X. If you spot something problematic in that subject - for example, a disruptive user - and you feel that an administrative action should be taken, where would you go for assistance? Possible examples would be IRC, ANI, a friendly administrator, a completely uninvolved administrator, the article talk page... etc. All of these are appropriate places, I'm just interested in where you'd go ''first''.
::'''A:'''The proper answer to this question depends quite a lot on what, exactly, the situation is, with regard to the type of conflict of interest I have (is it an article associated with my job, where good hygiene is to stay clear but I don't feel passionate? is it an article in which I've been involved in disputes? is it an article that's ideologically important to me?), the type of misbehavior I observe (a user adding "PENIS!" would get very different treatment than, say, someone subtly POV pushing), and the urgency of the situation (has someone violated the BLP policy on a contentious article, such that not acting immediately would be legally dangerous, or is it just someone who wants to change the facts in a paragraph and is arguing loudly on the talk about it?).<p>Those things said, I'll try to give you a general answer based on what you've said. In an area where I have a COI, where I observe problematic conduct that is not an emergency, my first inclination would be to judge whether interacting with the user in question on their talk or the article talk would be useful. Is it possible that a gentle warning, or just some calm engagement and discussion, can help the issue? I feel I would be safely within the bounds of COI to do these things, disclosing my COI to the editor if it was potentially relevant. If my feeling was that one-on-one interaction with me would not be helpful, or if the behavior was immediately disruptive, or if my COI was such that it would not be proper for me to engage on the relevant issue, the next step would be to get further administrator input. As you say, there are a number of venues available for this, but in a case where my handling of the issue could be viewed as problematic due to a COI, the proper step would be to be as transparent as possible and either contact, on-wiki, an uninvolved administrator whom I knew to be neutral with regard to both me and the issue at hand (if I still felt that it was an issue that could be resolved by someone working with the user in question), or post to ANI (if the issue was large, highly problematic, or a hot-topic).</p>
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