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worse than it would usually. You might find yourself acting badly in ways that would surprise even you, if you were not the person actually in the conflicted situation. Conflict of interest does this to people, without them being aware of it. So it is not just content that tends to gets skewed,
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to split your editing history to avoid scrutiny, for example, hiding the pattern of public relations related editing is not allowed. When multiple accounts are used, each account should be disclosed in the user page of every affected account.
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