User talk:AnniTabagua

Affiliated with DataArt wiki page. Edited the page, listing hard facts and giving the necessary references. AnniTabagua (talk) 13:39, 3 September 2019 (UTC)
 * I take it that you mean that you are working for DataArt, and that some or all of the recent promotional editing of the article DataArt has been done by you. If so, you need to take note of the following facts:


 * 1) The kind of promotional editing that has taken place on that article is contrary to Wikipedia policy, and must not continue.
 * 2) The article has a history of being filled with promotional content, having it removed, and being filled with promotional content again. This has been going on for many years: to my knowledge since at least as far back as 2007 (I have not checked back further than that).
 * 3) If you are working for the company then you need to comply with the guidelines on conflict of interest. Among other things, please do not edit the article, but if you think you have neutral (not promotional) changes which should be made then make a request that an uninvolved, impartial editor assess your proposed changes and consider whether to implement them.
 * 4) Now that you have been given this message I shall assume that anyone editing on behalf of the company is aware of the relevant issues, and shall feel free to act on that basis. Therefore, if necessary please pass this information on to anyone else it concerns.
 * 5) It comes as a considerable shock to realise for how long the company has been using Wikipedia as a vehicle for promotion, using numerous accounts and IP addresses. It is most unfortunate that nobody reported the problem for administrative attention years ago, but now that it has come to my attention I intend to keep an eye on it. If necessary it will be possible to protect the article against editing by anyone other than established editors, but I hope that won't be necessary, because it is just conceivable that one day it might cause inconvenience for a legitimate editor wishing to make legitimate contributions to the article.
 * 6) If you are being paid either by DataArt or by any person or organisation working on their behalf then the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use require you to state who is paying you, and if they are doing so on behalf of a client to also state that. That applies to anyone editing on behalf of the company, whether using an account to edit or not.
 * 7) To avoid a possible misunderstanding which many paid editors make (or claim to make) you are a paid editor if you are paid to do work for a business and as part of your work you edit Wikipedia in connection with that business, whether or not your pay includes a specific component for editing Wikipedia. JamesBWatson (talk) 15:05, 3 September 2019 (UTC)

Hi James. First off -- thank you for your detailed feedback. It does read a bit harsh but I am guessing you had your reasons and I am sorry for having edited in a wrong way, was certainly not my intention to break any guidelines. I would just like to clarify a couple of things: 1. Yes, I work for DataArt, but I don’t get paid for updating the Wiki page. I literally went on the page and saw that it's extremely outdated. The facts were outdated, and I read wiki articles of some of our competitors and saw that they included all kinds of info that we haven’t, so I obviously wanted to correct all that. 2. Waiting for someone completely independent to become interested in the DataArt wiki page is a bit naive, so I updated the text myself. 3. I really (truly, madly, deeply) tried to remove any promotional facts from the text. For each number, for each fact I give a link to the source. If someone else collected information about the company, they would have found the same thing. And I was doing most of it by example of how companies similar to us did that on their wiki pages. Somehow their info (all similar to us, like clients, key people, services etc.) never got removed, mine did. (I don’t mean to point fingers, I am just trying to be as honest as possible). 4. I am really unsure how to move forward with this. Shall I post all of my edits on the talk page for someone else to have a look? Or what are my options?

Again, sorry for causing a mess. Look forward to hearing back, Anni AnniTabagua (talk) 13:17, 4 September 2019 (UTC)

Could someone please get back to me? AnniTabagua (talk) 10:43, 19 September 2019 (UTC)