User talk:Calksuric

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Please read Conflict of interest, just to be on the safe side. The only article you have chosen to edit so far is rather a controversial one. Deb (talk) 19:28, 1 July 2017 (UTC)

Obligation to disclose
Hello Calksuric. Your edits look as if you are being paid. Paid promotion is an especially egregious type of conflict of interest (COI) Paid articles should be submitted through the articles for creation process. If you are receiving or expect to receive money for your edits, you are  required by the Wikimedia Terms of Use to disclose your employer, client and affiliation. You can post the disclosure on your user page at User:Calksuric. The template Paid can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form:. If I am mistaken – you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits – please state that in response to this message. If you are being paid, please provide the required disclosure. In either case, please do not edit further until you answer this message. Jytdog (talk) 03:15, 10 September 2017 (UTC)


 * Hi Jytdog,


 * I appreciate your comment. I neither am receiving nor expect to receive money for my edits, and am not an employee or otherwise paid by or affiliated with the subject of the page. My intention to reform the page arose from what seemed to be a legitimate update to the header bio given the updates to the criminal and civil cases. They seemed in my view at least to be more appropriately located in the body of the page than in the header which I assumed functioned as a current reflection of the subject's newsworthy information.


 * In any event, I would be happy to work through any changes with you prior to offering them. I am really only interested in making the page as accurate, objective and unbiased as possible, and think that some posts have gone up in the past that reveal inaccuracies. In any event, I appreciate your review and please do let me know how to proceed with any proposed changes.


 * Best,


 * Calksuric — Preceding unsigned comment added by Calksuric (talk • contribs) 15:19, 10 September 2017 (UTC)


 * Thanks for replying!  Quick note on the logistics of discussing things on Talk pages, which are essential for everything that happens here. In Talk page discussions, we "thread" comments by indenting - when you reply to someone, you put a colon in front of your comment, and the Wikipedia software converts that into an indent when you save your edit; if the other person has indented once, then you indent twice by putting two colons in front, which the WP software converts into two indents, and when that gets ridiculous you reset back to the margin (or "outdent") by putting this  in front of your comment. This also allows you to make it clear if you are also responding to something that someone else responded to if there are more than two people in the discussion; in that case you would indent the same amount as the person just above you in the thread.  I hope that all makes sense. And at the end of the comment, please "sign" by typing exactly four (not 3 or 5) tildas "~" which the WP software converts into a date stamp and links to your talk and user pages when you save your edit.  That is how we know who said what.  I know this is insanely archaic and unwieldy, but this is the software environment we have to work on. Sorry about that.  Will reply on the substance in a second... Jytdog (talk) 23:42, 11 September 2017 (UTC)


 * Thanks again for your reply. It is great that you are willing to abide by the "peer review" piece of the COI guideline. Thanks for that too. I am happy to accept that you are not paid but you clearly have some affiliation with the subject of the article, directly or indirectly. This diff was blatantly distorting.  This is not ambiguous --  a neutral editor would never have made that edit.
 * 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. We have a conflict management process, just like other publishing services do, and it is really important for the integrity of the project that it be followed.
 * Please disclose your connection with the subject per the COI guideline. Thanks! Jytdog (talk) 23:43, 11 September 2017 (UTC)


 * Thanks Jytdog. My COI (as described per the wiki rules) would be that I have known the subject of the article for a very long time in a professional capacity and think that he is an easy target for people to pile onto because he is a minority person. I would like to suggest only changes that are accurate and supported by the record and wikipedia's rules, and as I mentioned before, think that the structure of the article may have been influenced by those with COIs against the subject of the article. I look forward to following your guidance regarding posting,and would like to supplement the summary with a newly published article in Forbes as well as a description of its contents Calksuric (talk) 05:13, 13 November 2017 (UTC) [ [User:Calksuric|Calksuric] ]