User:Alexcolgan

Hello, my name is Alex Colgan and I’m the head writer at Leap Motion. I’ve set up this account to suggest changes and contribute resources towards articles related to Leap Motion.

I’m fully on board with Wikipedia’s contributions guidelines, including those related to conflict of interest. This means that I won’t make any direct edits to articles related to Leap Motion. Instead, my aim is to work with impartial editors who can make NPOV contributions to the Leap Motion article, and hopefully make it better! I’ll also be sure to disclose this affiliation on any page where I seek assistance.

If you’d like to help me, or have any feedback about my proposed changes, please let me know. Along with my user page, you can also contact me at acolgan@leapmotion.com.


 * Alex, I see that you have asked me and Gandydancer to be fronts for feeding your edits into Wikipedia. You say, "I’m fully on board with Wikipedia’s contributions guidelines." Your request is not in compliance with WP policy. All I can say is that I will not cooperate, and I advise you not to try to get promotional material into Wikipedia through other editors or methods. WP editors are very smart, and will discover and promptly remove any such edits as they find them. WP is dedicated to providing objective and reliable knowledge. It will generally accept statements that are backed up by reliable, third-party sources such as reviews in magazines. I realize that as an employee of Leap Motion, you have unique knowledge about your company and its products, but, unfortunately for your company, WP only provides one channel for you to contribute such knowledge: to tell it to independent and trustworthy journalists in a position to check any facts you provide, who will then decide to publish the information in public. Further information is available at WP:RS. A final note: "single-use" accounts like this, concerned with only one article, are prohibited. I hope this information helps. PS - I wish Leap Motion luck; its technology is clever. But don't waste your time trying to use WP for publicity. It's against policy. David Spector (talk) 19:28, 8 August 2014 (UTC)


 * Hi David, I'm also not a fan of fragmenting discussions; please see your talk page. — Alex Colgan, head writer at Leap Motion, 18:49, 11 August 2014 (UTC)