User talk:Davidpmcmillan

AfC notification: Draft:Palladium Balanced Scorecard Hall of Fame for Executing Strategy has a new comment
 I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at Draft:Palladium Balanced Scorecard Hall of Fame for Executing Strategy. Thanks! —  IVORK  Discuss 04:47, 11 April 2018 (UTC)

== Your submission at Articles for creation: Palladium Balanced Scorecard Hall of Fame for Executing Strategy (April 17) ==  Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Ravenswing was:

Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.


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  Ravenswing   06:54, 17 April 2018 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:Palladium Balanced Scorecard Hall of Fame for Executing Strategy


Hello, Davidpmcmillan. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Palladium Balanced Scorecard Hall of Fame for Executing Strategy".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply and remove the, , or  code.

If your submission has already been deleted by the time you get there, and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion by following the instructions at this link. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. DannyS712 (talk) 08:42, 13 February 2019 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:Palladium Balanced Scorecard Hall of Fame for Executing Strategy


Hello, Davidpmcmillan. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Palladium Balanced Scorecard Hall of Fame for Executing Strategy".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply and remove the, , or  code.

If your submission has already been deleted by the time you get there, and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion by following the instructions at this link. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia! CptViraj (📧) 12:21, 20 August 2019 (UTC)

January 2020
Hello Davidpmcmillan. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, such as the edit you made to Palladium International, but you have not complied with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. Paid advocacy is a category of conflict of interest (COI) editing that involves being compensated by a person, group, company or organization to use Wikipedia to promote their interests. Undisclosed paid advocacy is prohibited by our policies on neutral point of view and what Wikipedia is not, and is an especially egregious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat SEO.

Paid advocates are very strongly discouraged from direct article editing, and should instead propose changes on the talk page of the article in question if an article exists, and if it does not, from attempting to write an article at all. At best, any proposed article creation should be submitted through the articles for creation process, rather than directly.

Regardless, if you are receiving or expect to receive compensation for your edits, broadly construed, you are  required by the Wikimedia Terms of Use to disclose your employer, client and affiliation. You can post such a mandatory disclosure to your user page at User:Davidpmcmillan. 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. Otherwise, please provide the required disclosure. In either case, do not edit further until you answer this message. MrOllie (talk) 00:32, 16 January 2020 (UTC)

--Response to MrOllie-- First of all, thank you for being part of the volunteer corp on Wikipedia that makes the platform great. I was just listening to a fascinating conversation about Wikipedia on NPR (National Public Radio) about the platform that was really inspiring.

My sincere apologies for not having followed the terms and conditions of the site. Goodness knows, like most T&Cs online, I didn't read them figuring that they were sensible and that ethical behavior on my part would be sufficient to meet the terms. Per your message, I have made a disclosure on my user page that makes clear that I am, in fact, an employee of Palladium International. Though I am salaried staff, I am not directly paid for Wikipedia edits, nor is my job marketing (rather I am one of the company's strategy consultants working to help our clients with general business strategy and sustainability strategy).

The edits that I have made to the Balanced Scorecard page, the Palladium International page, the Robert S. Kaplan page, and others are in the spirit of taking my factual knowledge on these topics of about which I am intimately familiar and ensuring they are accurately represented on the platform.

To leave mention of Palladium International (and its prior legal incarnations - Renaissance and the Balanced Scorecard Collaborative) out of the page would be like leaving mentions of Art Schneiderman, Robert Kaplan, or David Norton out of the page. Palladium (and its prior legal incarnations) were companies that David Norton founded or co-founded to research, evolve, publish, market, and sell Balanced Scorecard and derived approaches. Robert Kaplan was (and still is) integrally involved in Palladium (and its prior legal incarnations). Palladium provided the case studies to support nearly all of Kaplan and Norton's publishing on Balanced Scorecard. Palladium ghost wrote significant portions of Kaplan and Norton's later books evolving Balanced Scorecard including ghost writing virtually all of the Execution Premium book mentioned and cited on the page. Palladium's prior legal incarnation, the Balanced Scorecard Collaborative was co-branded on Harvard Business Publishing's bi-monthly newsletter dedicated to the Balanced Scorecard that ran from 2000 to 2012; a publication series that remains their most profitable newsletter publication ever. I could continue listing all the ways that Palladium is integral to the history of the Balanced Scorecard. So to not mention Palladium anywhere in the history section of this article is simply a notable material omission that I would like to correct. Please let me know how to best move forward.

Thanks MrOllie for your message and for your dedication to ensuring Wikipedia remains a source of truth in a world of relative facts and fake news.

Davidpmcmillan (talk) 17:45, 17 January 2020 (UTC)Davidpmcmillan