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Editing with a conflict of interest
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Proposed deletion of Usability assurance


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Proposed deletion of HMI quality


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Please remove or rewrite your main user page
Your main user page, User:Avi Harel, needs to be deleted or rewritten so that it is not an advertisement for yourself. See WP:USERPAGE, and note that it currently violates WP:FAKEARTICLE. A single paragraph about yourself is usually acceptable. --Ronz (talk) 17:21, 11 September 2016
 * Thanks for removing it. --Ronz (talk) 15:00, 12 September 2016 (UTC)

Awaiting your response
I think at discussion at WP:COIN should be started about your editing, and that most of your edits should be removed from Wikipedia. Clearly you are using Wikipedia for self-promotion, and you have chosen to ignore the advice given to you here in July about editing against a conflict of interest. I think it would be helpful to await for your response at this point, but I am not advising anyone else from continuing the cleanup of your edits if they feel it is appropriate. --Ronz (talk) 18:00, 11 September 2016 (UTC)

I think it is a waste of time trying to argue that you do not have a conflict of interest as defined by Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Please look at WP:COI and the comment left in July here. You definitely have written articles about your work and you definitely have been adding links to your websites (and some of those links are definitely spam). --Ronz (talk) 21:00, 11 September 2016 (UTC)

Were you editing as A_naive_user and Ergolight?
It appears you initially were using to edit on Wikipedia, then later. Can you confirm this? --Ronz (talk) 15:15, 12 September 2016 (UTC)


 * I believe you are correct. I do not remember the exact circumstances, but I recall vaguely that when I started to contribute to Wikipedia, I did not know how to identify myself. Anyway, it is my style, as a usability professional, to use the term "naive user". I do not remember identifying myself as Ergolight, but I believe I did, because this was the name of my company, and this is the name of my methodology. Also, I can recognize the content of the contributions under these names, which must be mine. Honestly, I did not try to hide my identity. It is just that I did not know what and how to do things (and, although now I know much better, it seems that I still do the wrong things).Avi Harel (talk) 18:40, 12 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Don't worry about it. I just wanted to be sure that no other people are involved. Creating accounts like this is fairly typical for new editors. I've done it myself. --Ronz (talk) 23:46, 12 September 2016 (UTC)

COI discussion started
I've started the discussion here. That will get others' help. There's a great deal going on here and I don't currently have time to look into it all. This way you're not waiting on me. Thanks for your responses and patience. --Ronz (talk) 15:50, 12 September 2016 (UTC)

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A bit about notability and independent sources
I expect you've learned more about Wikipedia's notability guidelines by now. It's a rather strongly-enforced set of guideline that help identify what topics are appropriate as stand-alone articles. Note the emphasis on independence of sources. You asked for my advice earlier on how you can write about your methods without breaking the rules. The advice I always give is to work from reliable, independent sources. If an independent source has enough depth, it will likely meet Wikipedia's notability standards for the topic. Even if it doesn't have the needed level of detail, it will likely be very helpful in many other ways as detailed in Independent_sources. --Ronz (talk) 19:17, 13 September 2016 (UTC)

What about conference articles?
Hello Ronz. Thank you for your explanations. The situation in my case is still not clear to me.


 * Most of my references are articles presented in professional conferences. The publisher is a third party. Isn't it? Are these references acceptable? If yes, why to you tag them as spamming?


 * Typically, these articles are available in printed form, and may be found in libraries. Typically, they are not available on-line. Do you actually check the articles in the libraries? Otherwise, how can you judge about their relevance?


 * Because I assume that you do not check the article in libraries regularly, I uploaded the articles to my web site, and provided links to these articles. Is this considered spamming? Do you suggest that I refrain from helping the reviewers and the public get the articles online? Avi Harel (talk) 06:01, 14 September 2016 (UTC)

A good question on that is: do you have the copyright rights to put that work on your website for free, or did you give them up to the publisher? We cannot use works which are copyright violations, and yes, to a general reader, it looks like you're promoting the web site and your own work. On Wikipedia, you absolutely cannot write about yourself or your own work, and whatever you write about in general also may not cite your own work. A third party publisher is irrelevant, because in the end, the publisher didn't write the work, you did. MSJapan (talk) 15:50, 14 September 2016 (UTC)

Thank you for the explanation. Avi Harel (talk) 16:14, 14 September 2016 (UTC)
 * The conference articles are primary, non-independent, reliable sources. The publisher is reputable and the articles have been reviewed but not edited for accuracy and importance within that field.
 * MSJapan has described the copyright issues well. See WP:COPYVIO, and check with the publisher to see what rights you have. I wouldn't be surprised if you have simply must ask for permission and properly identify the copyright of the publisher.
 * Spam is something else: "Spam is the inappropriate addition of links or information to Wikipedia with the purpose of promoting an outside organization, individual or idea, and is considered harmful to the encyclopedia." per WP:SPAM. COI cautions against editors adding links to their own websites and works. See WP:SELFCITE. --Ronz (talk) 16:29, 14 September 2016 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Ergolight


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Nomination of GUI-Tester for deletion
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Nomination of Ergolight for deletion
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Speedy deletion nomination of Gordon Center for Systems Engineering


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Citations should contain the author(s) name(s)
I don't know why you keep removing your name as an author, but please stop doing so. We want full citation information for all sources in Wikipedia wherever possible. --Ronz (talk) 17:20, 14 September 2016 (UTC)


 * I am sorry. I thought this way I may avoid spamming. I will return my name Avi Harel (talk) 17:34, 14 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I am sorry that the COI guideline isn't clearer on how to work with a conflict of interest. We're so focused on the extreme cases that we leave editors like yourself wondering what to do. You can't go far wrong following Conflict_of_interest and WP:COIADVICE though. --Ronz (talk) 18:50, 14 September 2016 (UTC)

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Hello, DannyS712. Thank you for your message. I realize that many of my submissions were deleted, that many other were merged wrongly, adding ambiguity to the terms, and that I waste too much time trying to learn the submission rules, and to follow them correctly. A simple example: I do not know how to separate my response from your message.

Therefore, until Wikipedia is more friendly to editors, I decided to let other people, who are more competent than I, do the work. I may try again in the future, when I have more free time. Thanks, Avi Harel 84.108.57.84 (talk) 07:50, 26 October 2018 (UTC)

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