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Part of an edit requested by an editor with a conflict of interest has been implemented. I have went ahead and merged the infobox, history section, and product section. Please rewrite the lead, as funding information should not be included in the start of an article about an app. Thank you! |
I've done a re-draft of the published stub. As I have a WP:COI as a paid consultant to letgo, this suggested re-draft must be independently reviewed and approved. I am happy to work with anyone who would like to be of assistance. BC1278 ( talk) 20:06, 14 March 2017 (UTC)BC1278
An entire draft article should be in a subpage not here
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Product The letgo mobile app, offered for iOS and Android, facilitates buying and selling used goods. The marketplace, optimized for smartphones, features large photos of products for sale. [4] No log in is required. [5] Goods are displayed based on the geo-location closest to the buyer to make person to person transactions more likely. The app is integrated with instant chat to facilitate communication between buyers and sellers. [4] History Launched in January 2015 by Alec Oxenford, former CEO of OLX, the largest online peer-to-peer used goods marketplace outside of the United States, along with Jordi Castello and Enrique Linares, the app initially targeted the U.S. market, competing against eBay and Craigslist, the online marketplace leaders since the 1990s. [1] [6] [7] [8] By September 2015, the company said its app had 2 million downloads and half a million product listings. [1] Three quarters of the first round investment of $100 million was slated for marketing. [2] The ad agency Crispin Porter + Bogusky Miami created a television ad campaign for the app, directed by filmmaker Craig Gillespie. Each advertisement is premised on an extreme situation, such as a person dangling over a cliff who might plunge down because he's holding on to a bowling ball, where the sensible thing to do is to let go of the item. [5] CP+B Miami also created a series of four ads allowing customers to incorporate images and descriptions of their items for sale directly into a satirical video ad, such as one featuring action film start Dolph Lundgren as a mercenary. [9] In May 2016, Letgo merged with Wallapop, another mobile classifieds startup. [3] Letgo remained the majority owner of the company and the brand remained letgo. [10] At the time, there were about 10 million monthly active users between the two apps, according to SurveyMonkey data published by TechCrunch. [11] The company said in August 2016 that there were 30 million downloads of the app. About 17.4 million people used the app monthly, according to research firm Apptopia. [12] Letgo launched in Canada in October 2016 and in Norway of November 2016. [13] [14]
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This edit request by an editor with a conflict of interest has now been answered. |
Hi,
Im an experienced Wikipedia editor and a paid consultant to Letgo. As per WP: COI policy, I'd like to request the following updates to the article be reviewed and made by an independent editor:
1) In the infobox, the HQ is listed as New York and Mexico City, without a citation. The HQ is actually New York and Barcelona. It has no office in Mexico City. This TechCrunch article states New York is the HQ. [1] And this article lists Barcelona as a base for Letgo: [2]
2) More recent metrics for end of History section, updating older stats in the article:
Thanks,
References
Ed
BC1278 ( talk) 20:01, 14 April 2018 (UTC)BC1278
Saw your comment, happy to help! ReginaldTQ ( talk) 18:14, 6 May 2018 (UTC)
This edit request by an editor with a conflict of interest has now been answered. |
Hi,
I'm an experienced Wikipedia editor but I have a WP:COI, as disclosed above.
There was previously an image to illustrate the Products section and it was removed because of a permissions issue. here
Here is a replacement image for your consideration:
Thanks for your help.
Best,
Ed BC1278 ( talk) 19:29, 24 September 2018 (UTC)BC1278
Spintendo 07:27, 25 September 2018 (UTC)
This is a business.
The page about it in WP (i will not call it a WP article) fails to describe the fundamentals of the business.
it does have all the typical hype about raises and valuations and advertisements.
Nothing about the business.
Hence the advert tag. Jytdog ( talk) 21:36, 24 September 2018 (UTC)
This edit request by an editor with a conflict of interest has now been answered. |
@ Jytdog: Responded to your request above, along with other requested updates.
I am an experience Wikipedia editor but I have a COI here as paid consultant to letgo, as disclosed above. I would be very appreciative of an independent review of the following suggested edits:
1. Insert to History (at request of editor in section above).
After "Letgo was the second fastest growing app..."
"From its launch, the company did not charge for its services, earning no revenue, as part of its strategy to grow quickly. [1] As of June 2018, the listing service remained free, but the app added a paid beta feature allowing users to place their sales item above organic search results." [2]
2. Expand this sentence so it includes the name of the funder and includes a second source with details of the investment, not just a one line mention. Also, fix reference to the existing source: "In August 2018, Letgo raised $500 million. [3]
New sentence: "In August 2018, the company raised $500 million from Naspers. [4] [5]" The company is one of several in 2018 that raised so-called "mega-rounds" of $200 million or more, a trend that emphasizes scaling up to have a large user bases before becoming profitable. [4] An analyst said the Naspers investment was made, in part, because the market for online classifieds is so huge. The market may generate $40-50 billion in revenues by 2020, according to a 2015 Goldman Sachs report, with profit margins that can exceed 50%. The large size of the latest $500 million investment is reflective of how capital intensive it is to compete with the entrenched online classifieds' market leader in the United States, Craigslist, according to the analyst. [6]
3. Insert after $500 million raise sentence:
"At the same time, the company reported the app has more than 100 million downloads and 400 million listings to date. Listings were up about 65% during the first eight months of 2018. [7]
4. Add to end of Product section:
"In 2018, the company added video listings and image recognition that includes pricing suggestions. [8]
5. Request: Remove flagged box on top of page.
After the business model questions are added, as requested above, the two specific objections that led to the placement of the box by this editor have been answered.
Thanks for your consideration.
References
-- BC1278 ( talk) 21:34, 8 October 2018 (UTC)BC1278
{{
edit request}}
on the same issue.Regards, Spintendo 14:45, 14 November 2018 (UTC)
This edit request by an editor with a conflict of interest has now been answered. |
Hi, I followed the steps outline above for finding an editor to review prior to re-activating edit request and nothing has materialized since Nov. 12, following a previous waiting period of 21 days. So I am reactivating.
I am an experience Wikipedia editor but I have a COI here as paid consultant to letgo, as disclosed above. I would be very appreciative of an independent review of the following suggested edits:
1. Insert to History (at request of editor in section above), after "Letgo was the second fastest growing app...":
"From its launch, the company did not charge for its services, earning no revenue, as part of its strategy to grow quickly. [1] As of June 2018, the listing service remained free, but the app added a paid beta feature allowing users to place their sales item above organic search results." [2]
2. Expand the following sentence so it includes the name of the funder and includes a second source with details of the investment, not just a one line mention (also fixes reference to the existing source):
Delete: "In August 2018, Letgo raised $500 million. [3]
New sentence: "In August 2018, the company raised $500 million from Naspers. [4] [5]" The company is one of several in 2018 that raised so-called "mega-rounds" of $200 million or more, a trend that emphasizes scaling up to have a large user bases before becoming profitable. [4] An analyst said the Naspers investment was made, in part, because the market for online classifieds is so huge. The market may generate $40-50 billion in revenues by 2020, according to a 2015 Goldman Sachs report, with profit margins that can exceed 50%. The large size of the latest $500 million investment is reflective of how capital intensive it is to compete with the entrenched online classifieds' market leader in the United States, Craigslist, according to the analyst. [6] 3. Insert after $500 million raise sentence:
"At the same time, the company reported the app has more than 100 million downloads and 400 million listings to date. Listings were up about 65% during the first eight months of 2018. [7]
4. Add to end of Product section:
"In 2018, the company added video listings and image recognition that includes pricing suggestions. [8]
5. Remove flagged box on top of page.
After the business model questions are added, as requested above, the two specific objections that led to the placement of the box by this editor have been answered.
Thanks for your consideration. BC1278 ( talk) 21:35, 26 November 2018 (UTC)BC1278
References
The Apps WikiProject would be an excellent avenue to take in getting the request reviewed. Spintendo 13:47, 2 December 2018 (UTC)
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An impartial editor has reviewed the proposed edit(s) and asked the editor with a conflict of interest to go ahead and make the suggested changes. |
User:DGG and others. Here are my suggested changes as per your suggestions. For the others, that you said were ok, are you saying I should make these directly on the article? I think that's allowed, so long as the reviewing editor approves it. There hasn't been any substantive discussion related to the prior proposals for about 46 days, as of Dec. 7, 2018.
1. Move the following to a new sub-section called "Growth":
By September 2015, the company said its app had 2 million downloads and half a million product listings.[4]. Comscore said it was the second fastest growing app in the U.S., in 2017. [1] As of January 2018, the Letgo app had about 75 million downloads, compared to 30 million in August 2016.[17] Additionally, it had 200 million listings for secondhand goods and about 3 billion messages were exchanged between users.[16] The company said it had monthly repeat visitors in the "tens of millions."[16] In August, 2018, when they raised $500 million, the company reported the app had more than 100 million downloads and 400 million. Listings were up about 65% during the first eight months of 2018. [2]
2. Move the following to a new sub-section called "Funding":
Letgo raised US$100 million in 2015,[4] one of the five largest first rounds of venture capital financing since 2008.[8] Following a merger in May 2016 with Wallapop, a competitor with a reported valuation of about $570 million, the company raised an additional $100 million.[9] The company valuation was more than $1 billion, as of September 2017, making Letgo a unicorn company in startup terminology. By that time, Letgo has also raised $375 million in total capital.[14] In August 2018, the company raised $500 million from Naspers. [3] [4]
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BC1278 ( talk) 20:24, 7 December 2018 (UTC)BC1278
This edit request by an editor with a conflict of interest has now been answered. |
Hi,
An advertising tag was placed on top of this article by User:Jytdog because, as he explains at Talk:Letgo#advert, he felt the article lacked specific information about how it made money and whether it lost or made money. I responded to his requests with updated language that directly answered his questions. I also responded to another series of requests by DGG for a restructuring of the article and other improvements. Unfortunately, Jytdog's account is currently blocked Special:Contributions/Jytdog, so he can't respond to requests to remove the tag now that his questions have been directly answered. DGG seems not to remove advert tags on any company pages for his own philosophical take about inherent COI with any company article (he explains this in Talk) - but as you can see from the previous Talk entry, he was very satisfied with my work honoring his requests.
I'd request the tag be removed since I have satisfied the requests of these two very stringent editors. Happy to do even more work if the reviewing editor sees any remaining issues.
Thanks BC1278 ( talk) 18:16, 2 January 2019 (UTC)BC1278
Regards, Spintendo 22:41, 2 January 2019 (UTC)
Notes
Other than kicking the maintenance template can down the road, I don't see how meaningful changes were requested of the COI editor, other than from the prose. That makes it difficult to decide whether or not those requests have been met by the COI editor's proposals. Spintendo 00:00, 3 January 2019 (UTC)There's a general WP problem here: a meaningful article for a firm like this is essentially similar to at least some of the purposes of an advertisement. I do not see how to avoid this. Telling people what something is meant to do inherently advertises it. So its more a question of prose. I think the best thing to do is to make the changes in the best way you can, and then ask again about the tag.
— User:DGG
If by "Talk" the COI editor means DGG's talk page, then a diff of this would have been nice. I don't see this comment on DGG's talk page or Letgo's talk page, so I dont know where BC1278 is getting this from. Mentioning the reason for keeping it as being due to an editor's "philosophical take" strongly implies that the continuing display of it were meant as some sort of reckoning, which would not be correct in my book, as maintenance templates are not meant to be badges of shame. Not having access to the direct comment (as I have asked for) makes this comment from BC1278 very difficult to understand. I hope in the future that BC1278 is more clear regarding what they say has been said to them by providing diffs of these conversations when they are not immediately available to whomeever they are speaking with. Thank you! Spintendo 01:19, 3 January 2019 (UTC)DGG seems not to remove advert tags on any company pages for his own philosophical take about inherent COI with any company article (he explains this in Talk)
— User:BC1278
This edit request by an editor with a conflict of interest has now been answered. |
I have a COI as a paid consultant for LetGo, as disclosed above.
At the end of the current History section, please add: In September 2019, Naspers spun off its investments in Letgo and other internet companies into a new company, Prosus NV, which was listed on the Amsterdam Stock Exchange. [1] [2] — Preceding unsigned comment added by BC1278 ( talk • contribs) 16:22, 30 October 2019 (UTC)
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It is not known what is meant by the term spun off. Please clarify. When ready to proceed with the requested information, kindly change the {{
request edit}}
template's answer parameter to read from |ans=yes
to |ans=no
. Also, the COI editor is reminded of the need to sign all posts using four tildes. Thank you!
Regards,
Spintendo 22:44, 30 October 2019 (UTC)
Revised:
"At the end of the current History section, please add: In September 2019, Naspers separated its investments in Letgo and other internet companies into a new company, Prosus NV, which was listed on the Amsterdam Stock Exchange. [1] [2]" BC1278 ( talk) 03:12, 31 October 2019 (UTC)
"Oxenford’s OLX and Letgo are just two Naspers-owned internet ventures that will be carved out into a new $100 billion company called Prosus NV, which is due to list in Amsterdam on Sept. 11."[1] This source also does not elaborate on the amount removed from Letgo. As this is the Letgo article, it would seem prudent to mention an amount (or a percent) so that the reader has a better understanding of how much of Letgo's assets were used to form Prosus.
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Letgo article. This is not a forum for general discussion of the article's subject. |
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Find sources: Google ( books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL |
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The Wikimedia Foundation's Terms of Use require that editors disclose their "employer, client, and affiliation" with respect to any paid contribution; see WP:PAID. For advice about reviewing paid contributions, see WP:COIRESPONSE. |
Part of an edit requested by an editor with a conflict of interest has been implemented. I have went ahead and merged the infobox, history section, and product section. Please rewrite the lead, as funding information should not be included in the start of an article about an app. Thank you! |
I've done a re-draft of the published stub. As I have a WP:COI as a paid consultant to letgo, this suggested re-draft must be independently reviewed and approved. I am happy to work with anyone who would like to be of assistance. BC1278 ( talk) 20:06, 14 March 2017 (UTC)BC1278
An entire draft article should be in a subpage not here
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Product The letgo mobile app, offered for iOS and Android, facilitates buying and selling used goods. The marketplace, optimized for smartphones, features large photos of products for sale. [4] No log in is required. [5] Goods are displayed based on the geo-location closest to the buyer to make person to person transactions more likely. The app is integrated with instant chat to facilitate communication between buyers and sellers. [4] History Launched in January 2015 by Alec Oxenford, former CEO of OLX, the largest online peer-to-peer used goods marketplace outside of the United States, along with Jordi Castello and Enrique Linares, the app initially targeted the U.S. market, competing against eBay and Craigslist, the online marketplace leaders since the 1990s. [1] [6] [7] [8] By September 2015, the company said its app had 2 million downloads and half a million product listings. [1] Three quarters of the first round investment of $100 million was slated for marketing. [2] The ad agency Crispin Porter + Bogusky Miami created a television ad campaign for the app, directed by filmmaker Craig Gillespie. Each advertisement is premised on an extreme situation, such as a person dangling over a cliff who might plunge down because he's holding on to a bowling ball, where the sensible thing to do is to let go of the item. [5] CP+B Miami also created a series of four ads allowing customers to incorporate images and descriptions of their items for sale directly into a satirical video ad, such as one featuring action film start Dolph Lundgren as a mercenary. [9] In May 2016, Letgo merged with Wallapop, another mobile classifieds startup. [3] Letgo remained the majority owner of the company and the brand remained letgo. [10] At the time, there were about 10 million monthly active users between the two apps, according to SurveyMonkey data published by TechCrunch. [11] The company said in August 2016 that there were 30 million downloads of the app. About 17.4 million people used the app monthly, according to research firm Apptopia. [12] Letgo launched in Canada in October 2016 and in Norway of November 2016. [13] [14]
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This edit request by an editor with a conflict of interest has now been answered. |
Hi,
Im an experienced Wikipedia editor and a paid consultant to Letgo. As per WP: COI policy, I'd like to request the following updates to the article be reviewed and made by an independent editor:
1) In the infobox, the HQ is listed as New York and Mexico City, without a citation. The HQ is actually New York and Barcelona. It has no office in Mexico City. This TechCrunch article states New York is the HQ. [1] And this article lists Barcelona as a base for Letgo: [2]
2) More recent metrics for end of History section, updating older stats in the article:
Thanks,
References
Ed
BC1278 ( talk) 20:01, 14 April 2018 (UTC)BC1278
Saw your comment, happy to help! ReginaldTQ ( talk) 18:14, 6 May 2018 (UTC)
This edit request by an editor with a conflict of interest has now been answered. |
Hi,
I'm an experienced Wikipedia editor but I have a WP:COI, as disclosed above.
There was previously an image to illustrate the Products section and it was removed because of a permissions issue. here
Here is a replacement image for your consideration:
Thanks for your help.
Best,
Ed BC1278 ( talk) 19:29, 24 September 2018 (UTC)BC1278
Spintendo 07:27, 25 September 2018 (UTC)
This is a business.
The page about it in WP (i will not call it a WP article) fails to describe the fundamentals of the business.
it does have all the typical hype about raises and valuations and advertisements.
Nothing about the business.
Hence the advert tag. Jytdog ( talk) 21:36, 24 September 2018 (UTC)
This edit request by an editor with a conflict of interest has now been answered. |
@ Jytdog: Responded to your request above, along with other requested updates.
I am an experience Wikipedia editor but I have a COI here as paid consultant to letgo, as disclosed above. I would be very appreciative of an independent review of the following suggested edits:
1. Insert to History (at request of editor in section above).
After "Letgo was the second fastest growing app..."
"From its launch, the company did not charge for its services, earning no revenue, as part of its strategy to grow quickly. [1] As of June 2018, the listing service remained free, but the app added a paid beta feature allowing users to place their sales item above organic search results." [2]
2. Expand this sentence so it includes the name of the funder and includes a second source with details of the investment, not just a one line mention. Also, fix reference to the existing source: "In August 2018, Letgo raised $500 million. [3]
New sentence: "In August 2018, the company raised $500 million from Naspers. [4] [5]" The company is one of several in 2018 that raised so-called "mega-rounds" of $200 million or more, a trend that emphasizes scaling up to have a large user bases before becoming profitable. [4] An analyst said the Naspers investment was made, in part, because the market for online classifieds is so huge. The market may generate $40-50 billion in revenues by 2020, according to a 2015 Goldman Sachs report, with profit margins that can exceed 50%. The large size of the latest $500 million investment is reflective of how capital intensive it is to compete with the entrenched online classifieds' market leader in the United States, Craigslist, according to the analyst. [6]
3. Insert after $500 million raise sentence:
"At the same time, the company reported the app has more than 100 million downloads and 400 million listings to date. Listings were up about 65% during the first eight months of 2018. [7]
4. Add to end of Product section:
"In 2018, the company added video listings and image recognition that includes pricing suggestions. [8]
5. Request: Remove flagged box on top of page.
After the business model questions are added, as requested above, the two specific objections that led to the placement of the box by this editor have been answered.
Thanks for your consideration.
References
-- BC1278 ( talk) 21:34, 8 October 2018 (UTC)BC1278
{{
edit request}}
on the same issue.Regards, Spintendo 14:45, 14 November 2018 (UTC)
This edit request by an editor with a conflict of interest has now been answered. |
Hi, I followed the steps outline above for finding an editor to review prior to re-activating edit request and nothing has materialized since Nov. 12, following a previous waiting period of 21 days. So I am reactivating.
I am an experience Wikipedia editor but I have a COI here as paid consultant to letgo, as disclosed above. I would be very appreciative of an independent review of the following suggested edits:
1. Insert to History (at request of editor in section above), after "Letgo was the second fastest growing app...":
"From its launch, the company did not charge for its services, earning no revenue, as part of its strategy to grow quickly. [1] As of June 2018, the listing service remained free, but the app added a paid beta feature allowing users to place their sales item above organic search results." [2]
2. Expand the following sentence so it includes the name of the funder and includes a second source with details of the investment, not just a one line mention (also fixes reference to the existing source):
Delete: "In August 2018, Letgo raised $500 million. [3]
New sentence: "In August 2018, the company raised $500 million from Naspers. [4] [5]" The company is one of several in 2018 that raised so-called "mega-rounds" of $200 million or more, a trend that emphasizes scaling up to have a large user bases before becoming profitable. [4] An analyst said the Naspers investment was made, in part, because the market for online classifieds is so huge. The market may generate $40-50 billion in revenues by 2020, according to a 2015 Goldman Sachs report, with profit margins that can exceed 50%. The large size of the latest $500 million investment is reflective of how capital intensive it is to compete with the entrenched online classifieds' market leader in the United States, Craigslist, according to the analyst. [6] 3. Insert after $500 million raise sentence:
"At the same time, the company reported the app has more than 100 million downloads and 400 million listings to date. Listings were up about 65% during the first eight months of 2018. [7]
4. Add to end of Product section:
"In 2018, the company added video listings and image recognition that includes pricing suggestions. [8]
5. Remove flagged box on top of page.
After the business model questions are added, as requested above, the two specific objections that led to the placement of the box by this editor have been answered.
Thanks for your consideration. BC1278 ( talk) 21:35, 26 November 2018 (UTC)BC1278
References
The Apps WikiProject would be an excellent avenue to take in getting the request reviewed. Spintendo 13:47, 2 December 2018 (UTC)
===comment===:
An impartial editor has reviewed the proposed edit(s) and asked the editor with a conflict of interest to go ahead and make the suggested changes. |
User:DGG and others. Here are my suggested changes as per your suggestions. For the others, that you said were ok, are you saying I should make these directly on the article? I think that's allowed, so long as the reviewing editor approves it. There hasn't been any substantive discussion related to the prior proposals for about 46 days, as of Dec. 7, 2018.
1. Move the following to a new sub-section called "Growth":
By September 2015, the company said its app had 2 million downloads and half a million product listings.[4]. Comscore said it was the second fastest growing app in the U.S., in 2017. [1] As of January 2018, the Letgo app had about 75 million downloads, compared to 30 million in August 2016.[17] Additionally, it had 200 million listings for secondhand goods and about 3 billion messages were exchanged between users.[16] The company said it had monthly repeat visitors in the "tens of millions."[16] In August, 2018, when they raised $500 million, the company reported the app had more than 100 million downloads and 400 million. Listings were up about 65% during the first eight months of 2018. [2]
2. Move the following to a new sub-section called "Funding":
Letgo raised US$100 million in 2015,[4] one of the five largest first rounds of venture capital financing since 2008.[8] Following a merger in May 2016 with Wallapop, a competitor with a reported valuation of about $570 million, the company raised an additional $100 million.[9] The company valuation was more than $1 billion, as of September 2017, making Letgo a unicorn company in startup terminology. By that time, Letgo has also raised $375 million in total capital.[14] In August 2018, the company raised $500 million from Naspers. [3] [4]
References
BC1278 ( talk) 20:24, 7 December 2018 (UTC)BC1278
This edit request by an editor with a conflict of interest has now been answered. |
Hi,
An advertising tag was placed on top of this article by User:Jytdog because, as he explains at Talk:Letgo#advert, he felt the article lacked specific information about how it made money and whether it lost or made money. I responded to his requests with updated language that directly answered his questions. I also responded to another series of requests by DGG for a restructuring of the article and other improvements. Unfortunately, Jytdog's account is currently blocked Special:Contributions/Jytdog, so he can't respond to requests to remove the tag now that his questions have been directly answered. DGG seems not to remove advert tags on any company pages for his own philosophical take about inherent COI with any company article (he explains this in Talk) - but as you can see from the previous Talk entry, he was very satisfied with my work honoring his requests.
I'd request the tag be removed since I have satisfied the requests of these two very stringent editors. Happy to do even more work if the reviewing editor sees any remaining issues.
Thanks BC1278 ( talk) 18:16, 2 January 2019 (UTC)BC1278
Regards, Spintendo 22:41, 2 January 2019 (UTC)
Notes
Other than kicking the maintenance template can down the road, I don't see how meaningful changes were requested of the COI editor, other than from the prose. That makes it difficult to decide whether or not those requests have been met by the COI editor's proposals. Spintendo 00:00, 3 January 2019 (UTC)There's a general WP problem here: a meaningful article for a firm like this is essentially similar to at least some of the purposes of an advertisement. I do not see how to avoid this. Telling people what something is meant to do inherently advertises it. So its more a question of prose. I think the best thing to do is to make the changes in the best way you can, and then ask again about the tag.
— User:DGG
If by "Talk" the COI editor means DGG's talk page, then a diff of this would have been nice. I don't see this comment on DGG's talk page or Letgo's talk page, so I dont know where BC1278 is getting this from. Mentioning the reason for keeping it as being due to an editor's "philosophical take" strongly implies that the continuing display of it were meant as some sort of reckoning, which would not be correct in my book, as maintenance templates are not meant to be badges of shame. Not having access to the direct comment (as I have asked for) makes this comment from BC1278 very difficult to understand. I hope in the future that BC1278 is more clear regarding what they say has been said to them by providing diffs of these conversations when they are not immediately available to whomeever they are speaking with. Thank you! Spintendo 01:19, 3 January 2019 (UTC)DGG seems not to remove advert tags on any company pages for his own philosophical take about inherent COI with any company article (he explains this in Talk)
— User:BC1278
This edit request by an editor with a conflict of interest has now been answered. |
I have a COI as a paid consultant for LetGo, as disclosed above.
At the end of the current History section, please add: In September 2019, Naspers spun off its investments in Letgo and other internet companies into a new company, Prosus NV, which was listed on the Amsterdam Stock Exchange. [1] [2] — Preceding unsigned comment added by BC1278 ( talk • contribs) 16:22, 30 October 2019 (UTC)
References
It is not known what is meant by the term spun off. Please clarify. When ready to proceed with the requested information, kindly change the {{
request edit}}
template's answer parameter to read from |ans=yes
to |ans=no
. Also, the COI editor is reminded of the need to sign all posts using four tildes. Thank you!
Regards,
Spintendo 22:44, 30 October 2019 (UTC)
Revised:
"At the end of the current History section, please add: In September 2019, Naspers separated its investments in Letgo and other internet companies into a new company, Prosus NV, which was listed on the Amsterdam Stock Exchange. [1] [2]" BC1278 ( talk) 03:12, 31 October 2019 (UTC)
"Oxenford’s OLX and Letgo are just two Naspers-owned internet ventures that will be carved out into a new $100 billion company called Prosus NV, which is due to list in Amsterdam on Sept. 11."[1] This source also does not elaborate on the amount removed from Letgo. As this is the Letgo article, it would seem prudent to mention an amount (or a percent) so that the reader has a better understanding of how much of Letgo's assets were used to form Prosus.
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