User talk:Benprofaci

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August 2016

Hello! Thank you for your recent contributions to Colavita. I did have one note for you. I am working on a maintenance project to clean up Category:Pages using infoboxes with thumbnail images. In the future, please do not use thumbnails when adding images to an infobox (see WP:INFOBOXIMAGE). What does this mean? Well in the infobox, when you specify the image you wish to use, instead of doing it like this:

|image=[[File:SomeImage.jpg|thumb|Some image caption]]

Instead just supply the name of the image. So in this case you can simply do:

|image=SomeImage.jpg.

There will then be a separate parameter for the image caption such as |caption=Some image caption. Please note that this is a generic form message I am leaving on your page because you recently added a thumbnail to an infobox. The specific parameters for the image and caption may be different for the infobox you are using! Please consult the Template page for the infobox being used to see better documentation. Thanks!! Zackmann08 (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 17:33, 15 August 2016 (UTC)

Conflict of interest in Wikipedia

Hi Benprofaci . I work on conflict of interest issues here in Wikipedia, along with my regular editing. Your edits to date, as of those of ColavitaUSA and the edits of 75.99.119.254 are all about Colavita and are very promotional. 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, Benprofaci. 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, and it is important when editing Wikipedia articles that such connections be completely transparent. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. In particular, we ask that you please:

• avoid editing or creating articles related to you and your family, friends, school, company, club, or organization, as well as any competing companies' projects or products;
• instead, you are encouraged to propose changes on the Talk pages of affected article(s) (see the {{request edit}} template);
• when discussing affected articles, disclose your COI (see WP:DISCLOSE);
• avoid linking to the Wikipedia article or to the website of your organization in other articles (see WP:SPAM);
• exercise great caution so that you do not violate Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID).

Please take a few moments to read and review Wikipedia's policies regarding conflicts of interest, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, sourcing and autobiographies. Thank you.

Comments and requests

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 Colavita, directly or through a third party (e.g. a PR agency or the like)? You can answer how ever you wish (giving personally identifying information or not), but if there is a connection, please disclose it. Also if you have edited here under other accounts, please name the accounts - it is not OK to edit under multiple named accounts, or to edit while logged out in order to avoid scrutiny. After you respond (and you can just reply below), I can walk you through how the "peer review" part happens and then, if you like, I can provide you with some more general orientation as to how this place works. Please reply here, just below, to keep the discussion in one place. Thanks! Jytdog (talk) 21:37, 9 June 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for your comments at the article Talk page, disclosing that you are a marketing intern for Colavita and for disclosing that a colleague at Colavita also edited the article. Discussion about things like an editor's COI do not belong on article Talk pages, which are strictly for discussing article content, based on the reliable sources and the policies and guidelines of Wikipedia). Once we have finished the COI discussion here, we can turn back to content.

So, there is no doubt that in Wikipedia your participation here with regard to Colavita is governed by the WP:PAID policy, and it appears that you have a family relationship with John J Profaci, which also constitutes a COI in Wikipedia.

Would you please confirm that you understand that PAID and COI both apply to your editing about Colavita? Once you do, we can talk about how you should participate in Wikipedia (your participation is very welcome - you just have to do some things differently on topics where you have a COI.) Thanks. Jytdog (talk) 20:01, 12 June 2017 (UTC)

Who edited the page from its old version to what it is currently? This page seems extremely promotional, not to mention it is rife with run on sentences and improper grammar. Please practice the same neutrality and writing standards that you expect of the public.

-Ben

Your draft article, Draft:Team Colavita

Hello, Benprofaci. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Team Colavita".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply and remove the {{db-afc}}, {{db-draft}}, or {{db-g13}} code.

If your submission has already been deleted by the time you get there, and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion by following the instructions at this link. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Legacypac (talk) 18:56, 26 August 2017 (UTC)