Talk:Colavita

COI
This article has been under promotional pressure from editors with an WP:APPARENTCOI for the past month or so. I have notified the relevant editors of the COI guideline and tagged the article for now, until we determine if there is a COI and if so, get it managed. Jytdog (talk) 21:43, 9 June 2017 (UTC)
 * I cleaned it up today. Still looking forward to getting the COI managed, but the article is OK now. Jytdog (talk) 04:10, 10 June 2017 (UTC)

Request edit on 12 June 2017
Hello Jytdog and other editors,

I was recently notified of an apparent COI for the page I was editing for the company Colavita and would like the opportunity to discuss these claims.

I am currently interning in the marketing department of the company and one of my roles is to work on monitoring public image. More specifically, a responsibility of mine is to update and edit the company page as information is received. Although I share a surname with one of the company's founders, my connection to the company today is that of an employee who is simply trying to do his job.

I am apprehensive of the vast changes made to the Colavita page and would argue the COI accusation. One example of this supposed COI is that fact that I wrote "Colavita USA is a privately held, family-operated company that imports and distributes olive oil, tomato sauce, and dried pastas." I would appreciate an explanation as to how this is, in any way, either promotional and/or represents a conflict of interest. The sentence is simply stating the ownership structure of the company as well as its business.

There are other sentences from my original page that are similar to the one above, all of which were written in as neutral a tone as possible. Your edits to the page appear to be even more promotional, in favor of the Italian-based Colavita S.p.A.

This leads me to believe that perhaps there is some confusion regarding which company was being profiled in the original page. My Colavita page was intended to discuss Colavita USA, located in Edison, New Jersey. The Colavita in Italy, Colavita S.p.A, is an entity outside of my scope of responsibility and should be created/maintained by an employee based in Italy. If this postulation is accurate, please revert the page back to its original form as of Friday last week (June 9 2017).

Also, your edits included a section on Colavita's contribution to building a culinary center at the Culinary Institute of America, which was not previously ever mentioned on my original page. Last week, I wrote a description of the center on the Culinary Institute of America page which was immediately removed due to "promotional language", of which there was none (I took all of the information straight from the CIA website and linked it as a source). Please provide an explanation as to how there shouldn't be a section describing this multi-million dollar academic building on the CIA page, yet a whole paragraph on it on the newly edited Colavita page.

Please also explain why the section on the original page entitled "Impact on the Environment" was removed. There are thousands of Wikipedia pages with sections entitled "Impact on the Environment", yet for some reason it was removed from mine. My section described the multi million dollar investment into solar panels that would cleanly power all of the olive oil production operations, so please do not state that it "wasn't significant enough to write about" because that would simply be untrue.

Lastly, I would just like to say that I appreciate the work that editors do in closely monitoring pages for inaccurate and highly promotional dialogue. I think this is important in keeping Wikipedia a viable source for good information. Having said that, I highly disagree with the edits made to the Colavita page and would very much appreciate it if you could take a look at the original page and reconsider the edits.

P.S., a fellow employee noticed that you removed the Colavita USA website in favor of the Italian website. He tried to add back the USA website but it was immediately removed.

The USA website is where most of the information about the company can be found (as opposed to the Italian website which is updated less frequently and is in a different language), and I would like to request that you allow us to implement it on the page as it will help clear up confusion. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Benprofaci (talk • contribs) 15:23, 12 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks for disclosing that you are a marketing intern for Colavita and for disclosing that a colleague at Colavita also edited the article. Please see your talk page, with regard to finishing the discussion about COI in Wikipedia (that discussion does not belong here -- this page is solely for discussing content, based on the reliable sources and the policies and guidelines of Wikipedia).   Once we have finished the COI discussion we can turn back to content. Jytdog (talk) 19:53, 12 June 2017 (UTC)