User talk:Donaldmacangus

Thanks for the info
Thanks GermanJoe for the information, I was mainly trying to correct various errors regarding ownership. I searched in google for Pivotal CRM and noticed some outdated information in Wikipedia so thought I'd try to fix it :). I do work for the new owning company but did not realise that would be an issue - who can correct these errors if not me? - Thanks!

--Donaldmacangus (talk) 14:07, 25 February 2019 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, Donaldmacangus. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the page Pivotal CRM, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:


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Also please note that editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. GermanJoe (talk) 13:49, 25 February 2019 (UTC) Removed as requested - will try to come up with another description for this event

--Donaldmacangus (talk) 15:28, 26 February 2019 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Avolin


A tag has been placed on Avolin requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to be an unambiguous copyright infringement. This page appears to be a direct copy from https://globenewswire.com/news-release/2018/10/30/1639375/0/en/ESW-Capital-Acquires-Aptean-Vertical-Business-Applications-Group.html. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images taken from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites or other printed material as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.

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 * Hi - I'm not getting paid to make these edits however I do work for Avolin and I also use Wikipedia a lot, I saw lots of errors and thought cleaning up the mistakes regarding who owns different product lines etc would be a good thing to do - obviously not :).   I've now read the epic info who can do what and why but surely if I see an error and can correct it quickly that's a good idea? - I fully understand that we should not use Wikipedia for marketing etc but I really was just trying to add some factual information. I've also added the disclosure info as requested - anyway I'll try to restrict my editing in future - thanks  --Donaldmacangus (talk) 16:04, 26 February 2019 (UTC)


 * Hello. I would advise that you instead request changes on the article talk pages. You can use the request edit tempate to attract the attention of other uninvolved editors to help you with your changes. --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 16:15, 26 February 2019 (UTC)

Disclosure of employment
Hello Donaldmacangus. 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 Avolin, 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:Donaldmacangus. 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. --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 15:51, 26 February 2019 (UTC)