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Article | Wikibrands: Reinventing Your Company in a Customer-Driven Marketplace |
Status | Close |
Request date | 05:12, 21 August 2011 (UTC) |
Requesting party | Jdechambeau ( talk) |
Parties involved | User:Jdechambeau, User:ConcernedVancouverite |
This dispute focuses on Wikibrands: Reinventing Your Company in a Customer-Driven Marketplace, (and a redirect to that page, from Wikibrands) and Mike Dover
The list of the users involved. For example:
As of 17:40, 21 August 2011 (UTC) ConcernedVancouverite does not seem interested in mediation. Any guidance on how to proceed would be appreciated. -- Jdechambeau ( talk) 17:40, 21 August 2011 (UTC)
On Friday August 19th, I created two Wikipedia articles, one about Mike Dover, a former colleague of mine and Canadian business executive, and a second about his recently-published book, Wikibrands.
Within several minutes of creating the wikibrands article, it had been tagged for speedy deletion by ConcernedVancouverite. The page has since been deleted, so I am not able to link to the edit history. After the article was flagged for deletion, I posted on the talk page my justification for why it should be kept. An anonymous user also posted their support, a named user also did the same. This prompted ConcernedVancouverite to request a sockpuppet investigation. While I don't think the issue has yet been resolved by an admin, there was no sock puppetry. What's more, this appears to run contrary to the notice to assume good faith that ConcernedVancouverite has on their talk page.
Focusing specifically on the Mike Dover article, as CV (if you don't mind the shortform) requested a speedy deletion, which was overturned by admin User:Causa sui. CV requested that the article be better sourced, so I went about doing exactly that. Following this, user User:Gurt Posh added a nomination for deletion, which CV rejoined with a fresh collection of tags, as well as a number of {{fact}} next to all of the references that I added at their direct request.
At this point I decided to reach out to CV to try and resolve this. I felt I must have been missing something to find myself greeted with such hostility. I therefore posted on User talk:ConcernedVancouverite#Mike Dover article asking basically: whoah, what's going on here?
In response CV 'thanked me for openly admitting my conflict of interest.' I put the term in quotes because, as CV suggested, I read the conflict of interest guidelines--before posting the original article--and so far as I can see, there is absolutely no conflict of interest. I fail to see how working with someone a few years ago constitutes a conflict of interest. Frankly I was baffled at being told to read a rule that I had read and was not violating.
What's more: the charge CV seems to be raising is that the article is unambiguously promotional. It clearly is not, and is built around factual statements that lack even adjectives to bias the content. The article, if it's unambiguously anything, is unambiguously factual (and dry!).
At any rate, the while I was improving the Mike Dover article as per CV's suggestions, the Wikibrands article was pushed through speedy deletion. This happened very very quickly. So quickly in fact that there was no time for any sort of discussion or consensus. There was no suggestion of merging the articles, there was no constructive feedback given on how to make the article better, or a fair chance to demonstrate it's noteworthiness. From my perspective, the message felt very clear that the decision had been made, and that was that.
Following this, CV appears to have gone through my through my edit history searching for other articles to tag for deletion, effectively stalking through my other contributions. I'm trying to assume good faith here, but this seems downright vindictive.
For some extra info, here's a post from Jim Wales about ' rampant deletionism' that seems pretty apt in this situation. -- Jdechambeau ( talk) 17:29, 21 August 2011 (UTC)
I'd like the main Wikibrands article back, and for the aggressive editing on CV's part to stop--if it is the decision of the mediator that CV has been unduly aggressive. I don't like feeling as though I'm being followed around the site by someone who, for reasons I am not privy to, is not the biggest fan of mine.
I'd like to have other members of the community weigh in. I'm trying in good faith to add a factual and valuable article to the community. My contributions have been met with what feels to me like undue antagonism. I'm looking for the mediators to shed some light on the situation. Is the article really out of line, or is CV reacting with undue zeal? If the article was valid and CV's behaviour is in fact outside of what the community deems acceptable.
Collaterally, I'm left curious as to how common this experience is to people joining the wikipedia community. I'm very curious about the mediation process, though I'm skeptical that many newcomers would take the time to request mediation.
Jdechambeau, an editor who has been editing since 2006, has openly declared a conflict of interest here [1] as having worked closely with Mike Dover (the co-author of the book), and having a desire to promote his new book. The original article was written, in my opinion, in a promotional style which would have required substantial rewriting to be acceptable for article space. As such, I nominated it for speedy deletion as G11. Administrator Fastily appears to have agreed and speedy deleted the article: [2]. The deletion of that article left a broken redirect at Wikibrands, which for housekeeping purposes I nominated for speedy under G8. Administrator Skier Dude apparently agreed and deleted the redirect: [3]. I should note that there is an open sockpuppet case as well, as several SPA editors suddenly appeared to help preserve the articles Jdechambeau has been working on about Mike Dover and his book. Details: Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Jdechambeau. Regarding going through other edits by the same editor, it is fairly normal quality control practice after locating some questionable edits to look into the editing history of the editor making them and conducting quality control on any other edits which require such. Upon reviewing his edits since 2006 Special:Contributions/Jdechambeau the bulk of them appear to be around Mike Dover, his associates, and their books. While it is perfectly fine to have a strong interest in a single domain, combing through those edits and removing promotional content, or tagging articles that require more reliable sourcing is normal quality control practice. ConcernedVancouverite ( talk) 15:36, 21 August 2011 (UTC)
This is all very silly. THE CABAL HAS SPOKEN! Xavexgoem ( talk) 20:03, 31 August 2011 (UTC)
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Article | Wikibrands: Reinventing Your Company in a Customer-Driven Marketplace |
Status | Close |
Request date | 05:12, 21 August 2011 (UTC) |
Requesting party | Jdechambeau ( talk) |
Parties involved | User:Jdechambeau, User:ConcernedVancouverite |
This dispute focuses on Wikibrands: Reinventing Your Company in a Customer-Driven Marketplace, (and a redirect to that page, from Wikibrands) and Mike Dover
The list of the users involved. For example:
As of 17:40, 21 August 2011 (UTC) ConcernedVancouverite does not seem interested in mediation. Any guidance on how to proceed would be appreciated. -- Jdechambeau ( talk) 17:40, 21 August 2011 (UTC)
On Friday August 19th, I created two Wikipedia articles, one about Mike Dover, a former colleague of mine and Canadian business executive, and a second about his recently-published book, Wikibrands.
Within several minutes of creating the wikibrands article, it had been tagged for speedy deletion by ConcernedVancouverite. The page has since been deleted, so I am not able to link to the edit history. After the article was flagged for deletion, I posted on the talk page my justification for why it should be kept. An anonymous user also posted their support, a named user also did the same. This prompted ConcernedVancouverite to request a sockpuppet investigation. While I don't think the issue has yet been resolved by an admin, there was no sock puppetry. What's more, this appears to run contrary to the notice to assume good faith that ConcernedVancouverite has on their talk page.
Focusing specifically on the Mike Dover article, as CV (if you don't mind the shortform) requested a speedy deletion, which was overturned by admin User:Causa sui. CV requested that the article be better sourced, so I went about doing exactly that. Following this, user User:Gurt Posh added a nomination for deletion, which CV rejoined with a fresh collection of tags, as well as a number of {{fact}} next to all of the references that I added at their direct request.
At this point I decided to reach out to CV to try and resolve this. I felt I must have been missing something to find myself greeted with such hostility. I therefore posted on User talk:ConcernedVancouverite#Mike Dover article asking basically: whoah, what's going on here?
In response CV 'thanked me for openly admitting my conflict of interest.' I put the term in quotes because, as CV suggested, I read the conflict of interest guidelines--before posting the original article--and so far as I can see, there is absolutely no conflict of interest. I fail to see how working with someone a few years ago constitutes a conflict of interest. Frankly I was baffled at being told to read a rule that I had read and was not violating.
What's more: the charge CV seems to be raising is that the article is unambiguously promotional. It clearly is not, and is built around factual statements that lack even adjectives to bias the content. The article, if it's unambiguously anything, is unambiguously factual (and dry!).
At any rate, the while I was improving the Mike Dover article as per CV's suggestions, the Wikibrands article was pushed through speedy deletion. This happened very very quickly. So quickly in fact that there was no time for any sort of discussion or consensus. There was no suggestion of merging the articles, there was no constructive feedback given on how to make the article better, or a fair chance to demonstrate it's noteworthiness. From my perspective, the message felt very clear that the decision had been made, and that was that.
Following this, CV appears to have gone through my through my edit history searching for other articles to tag for deletion, effectively stalking through my other contributions. I'm trying to assume good faith here, but this seems downright vindictive.
For some extra info, here's a post from Jim Wales about ' rampant deletionism' that seems pretty apt in this situation. -- Jdechambeau ( talk) 17:29, 21 August 2011 (UTC)
I'd like the main Wikibrands article back, and for the aggressive editing on CV's part to stop--if it is the decision of the mediator that CV has been unduly aggressive. I don't like feeling as though I'm being followed around the site by someone who, for reasons I am not privy to, is not the biggest fan of mine.
I'd like to have other members of the community weigh in. I'm trying in good faith to add a factual and valuable article to the community. My contributions have been met with what feels to me like undue antagonism. I'm looking for the mediators to shed some light on the situation. Is the article really out of line, or is CV reacting with undue zeal? If the article was valid and CV's behaviour is in fact outside of what the community deems acceptable.
Collaterally, I'm left curious as to how common this experience is to people joining the wikipedia community. I'm very curious about the mediation process, though I'm skeptical that many newcomers would take the time to request mediation.
Jdechambeau, an editor who has been editing since 2006, has openly declared a conflict of interest here [1] as having worked closely with Mike Dover (the co-author of the book), and having a desire to promote his new book. The original article was written, in my opinion, in a promotional style which would have required substantial rewriting to be acceptable for article space. As such, I nominated it for speedy deletion as G11. Administrator Fastily appears to have agreed and speedy deleted the article: [2]. The deletion of that article left a broken redirect at Wikibrands, which for housekeeping purposes I nominated for speedy under G8. Administrator Skier Dude apparently agreed and deleted the redirect: [3]. I should note that there is an open sockpuppet case as well, as several SPA editors suddenly appeared to help preserve the articles Jdechambeau has been working on about Mike Dover and his book. Details: Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Jdechambeau. Regarding going through other edits by the same editor, it is fairly normal quality control practice after locating some questionable edits to look into the editing history of the editor making them and conducting quality control on any other edits which require such. Upon reviewing his edits since 2006 Special:Contributions/Jdechambeau the bulk of them appear to be around Mike Dover, his associates, and their books. While it is perfectly fine to have a strong interest in a single domain, combing through those edits and removing promotional content, or tagging articles that require more reliable sourcing is normal quality control practice. ConcernedVancouverite ( talk) 15:36, 21 August 2011 (UTC)
This is all very silly. THE CABAL HAS SPOKEN! Xavexgoem ( talk) 20:03, 31 August 2011 (UTC)