Do not abuse Wikipedia as a vehicle to sell your software. Do not do this. This is an encyclopedia, not a social media marketing vehicle.
Please stop adding inappropriate
external links to Wikipedia. It is considered
spamming and
Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or promotion. Because Wikipedia uses
nofollow tags, additions of links to Wikipedia will not alter search engine rankings. If you continue spamming, you may be
blocked from editing Wikipedia.
Jytdog (
talk)
06:00, 13 April 2016 (UTC)
BuildGuru, I work on conflict of interest issues here in Wikipedia, which is what drew my attention to your edit. It seems pretty clear that you have some connection with Tenderfield. I'm giving you notice of our Conflict of Interest guideline and Terms of Use, and will have some comments and requests for you below.
Hello, BuildGuru. We
welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things
you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a
conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the
conflict of interest guideline and
FAQ for organizations for more information. In particular, please:
In addition, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID).
Please familiarize yourself with relevant policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, sourcing and autobiographies. Thank you.
Wikipedia is a widely-used reference work and managing conflict of interest is essential for ensuring the integrity of Wikipedia and retaining the public's trust in it. As in academia, COI is managed here in two steps - disclosure and a form of peer review. Please note that there is no bar to being part of the Wikipedia community if you want to be involved in articles where you have a conflict of interest; there are just some things we ask you to do (and if you are paid, some things you need to do).
Disclosure is the most important, and first, step. While I am not asking you to disclose your identity (anonymity is strictly protecting by our WP:OUTING policy) would you please disclose if you have some connection with Tenderfield? You can answer how ever you wish (giving personally identifying information or not), but if there is a connection, please disclose it. After you respond (and you can just reply below), perhaps we can talk a bit about editing Wikipedia when you have a COI, and I can give you some information about how the community thinks about what we call " reliable sources" to give you some more orientation to how this place works. Please reply here - I am watching this page. Thanks! Jytdog ( talk) 00:58, 14 April 2016 (UTC)
OK, so if I may, I would like to get you oriented to how Wikipedia works. There are some non-intuitive things about editing here, that I can zip through ~pretty~ quickly....
The first thing, is that our mission is to produce articles that provide readers encyclopedia articles that summarize accepted knowledge, and to do that as a community that anyone can be a part of. That's the mission. As you can imagine, if this place had no norms, it would be a Mad Max kind of world interpersonally, and content would be a slag heap (the quality is really bad in parts, despite our best efforts). But over the past 15 years the community has developed a whole slew of norms, via loads of discussion. One of the first, is that we decide things by consensus. That decision itself, is recorded here: WP:CONSENSUS, which is one of our "policies". (There is a whole forest of things, in "Wikipedia space" - pages in Wikipedia that start with "Wikipedia:AAAA" or for short, "WP:AAAA". WP:CONSENSUS is different from Consensus. ) And when we decide things by consensus, that is not just local in space and time, but includes meta-discussions that have happened in the past. The results of those past meta-discussions are the norms that we follow now. We call them policies and guidelines - and these documents all reside in Wikipedia space. There are policies and guidelines that govern content, and separate ones that govern behavior. Here is very quick rundown:
In terms of behavior, the key norms are:
If you can get all that (the content and behavior policies and guidelines) under your belt, you will become truly "clueful", as we say. If that is where you want to go, of course. I know that was a lot of information, but hopefully it is digestable enough. Good luck! Jytdog ( talk) 05:41, 15 April 2016 (UTC)
Hello Jytdog, earlier I have "request edit" under Talk:Project management software according to my understanding of the information you have previously provided. If I have done anything incorrectly, please let me know I will try to rectify it. Thanks again for your guidance. BuildGuru ( talk) 07:26, 18 April 2016 (UTC)
Hello Jytdog, after 8 months my edit was rejected with the following comment "The content is quite promotional, you may wish to see this for more information. Request declined. Regards, VB00 (talk) 09:38, 31 December 2016 (UTC)", I would like to seek your objective comment whether this is the case, and what are my options. I have referred to the resources he mentioned and don't feel the comment was justified.
Do not abuse Wikipedia as a vehicle to sell your software. Do not do this. This is an encyclopedia, not a social media marketing vehicle.
Please stop adding inappropriate
external links to Wikipedia. It is considered
spamming and
Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or promotion. Because Wikipedia uses
nofollow tags, additions of links to Wikipedia will not alter search engine rankings. If you continue spamming, you may be
blocked from editing Wikipedia.
Jytdog (
talk)
06:00, 13 April 2016 (UTC)
BuildGuru, I work on conflict of interest issues here in Wikipedia, which is what drew my attention to your edit. It seems pretty clear that you have some connection with Tenderfield. I'm giving you notice of our Conflict of Interest guideline and Terms of Use, and will have some comments and requests for you below.
Hello, BuildGuru. We
welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things
you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a
conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the
conflict of interest guideline and
FAQ for organizations for more information. In particular, please:
In addition, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID).
Please familiarize yourself with relevant policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, sourcing and autobiographies. Thank you.
Wikipedia is a widely-used reference work and managing conflict of interest is essential for ensuring the integrity of Wikipedia and retaining the public's trust in it. As in academia, COI is managed here in two steps - disclosure and a form of peer review. Please note that there is no bar to being part of the Wikipedia community if you want to be involved in articles where you have a conflict of interest; there are just some things we ask you to do (and if you are paid, some things you need to do).
Disclosure is the most important, and first, step. While I am not asking you to disclose your identity (anonymity is strictly protecting by our WP:OUTING policy) would you please disclose if you have some connection with Tenderfield? You can answer how ever you wish (giving personally identifying information or not), but if there is a connection, please disclose it. After you respond (and you can just reply below), perhaps we can talk a bit about editing Wikipedia when you have a COI, and I can give you some information about how the community thinks about what we call " reliable sources" to give you some more orientation to how this place works. Please reply here - I am watching this page. Thanks! Jytdog ( talk) 00:58, 14 April 2016 (UTC)
OK, so if I may, I would like to get you oriented to how Wikipedia works. There are some non-intuitive things about editing here, that I can zip through ~pretty~ quickly....
The first thing, is that our mission is to produce articles that provide readers encyclopedia articles that summarize accepted knowledge, and to do that as a community that anyone can be a part of. That's the mission. As you can imagine, if this place had no norms, it would be a Mad Max kind of world interpersonally, and content would be a slag heap (the quality is really bad in parts, despite our best efforts). But over the past 15 years the community has developed a whole slew of norms, via loads of discussion. One of the first, is that we decide things by consensus. That decision itself, is recorded here: WP:CONSENSUS, which is one of our "policies". (There is a whole forest of things, in "Wikipedia space" - pages in Wikipedia that start with "Wikipedia:AAAA" or for short, "WP:AAAA". WP:CONSENSUS is different from Consensus. ) And when we decide things by consensus, that is not just local in space and time, but includes meta-discussions that have happened in the past. The results of those past meta-discussions are the norms that we follow now. We call them policies and guidelines - and these documents all reside in Wikipedia space. There are policies and guidelines that govern content, and separate ones that govern behavior. Here is very quick rundown:
In terms of behavior, the key norms are:
If you can get all that (the content and behavior policies and guidelines) under your belt, you will become truly "clueful", as we say. If that is where you want to go, of course. I know that was a lot of information, but hopefully it is digestable enough. Good luck! Jytdog ( talk) 05:41, 15 April 2016 (UTC)
Hello Jytdog, earlier I have "request edit" under Talk:Project management software according to my understanding of the information you have previously provided. If I have done anything incorrectly, please let me know I will try to rectify it. Thanks again for your guidance. BuildGuru ( talk) 07:26, 18 April 2016 (UTC)
Hello Jytdog, after 8 months my edit was rejected with the following comment "The content is quite promotional, you may wish to see this for more information. Request declined. Regards, VB00 (talk) 09:38, 31 December 2016 (UTC)", I would like to seek your objective comment whether this is the case, and what are my options. I have referred to the resources he mentioned and don't feel the comment was justified.