User talk:Donnie Park/Archives/2016/April

J. Schaul
Dear Donnie, I hope I'm not inserting this in the wrong place. I just read your comments regarding my page. I did get compensated for a few articles, and I thought I did the right thing and adhered to the policy by indicating that I was compensated. I have made some mistakes, but I have tried to be honest, neutral and objective regarding the editing of my page and some of the others I have created. I have really enjoyed contributing to Wikipedia and I really feel bad that these pages have been proposed for deletion. I hope the editors will reconsider. Thanks for letting me shareJpop73 (talk) 03:35, 7 April 2016 (UTC)

John Currie, etc.
Dear Donnie, A representative for John Currie, who is a friend of Michael Hutchins (a colleague of mine) asked me to create a new page for him and as a favor I created one, which has since been vandalized. I'm sorry that this upsets you so much. I would guess that every single article I've created has a conflict of interest. Please stop treating me like I am a malicious criminal. I don't even know what you mean when you mention credits. I don't know what they are and I'm not interested in accumulating them. I'm not interesting in competing with other editors or ascending the hierarchy of Wikipedia. I enjoy writing and I'd made the mistake of documenting two instances for which I was paid to create articles, which I thought was an important to policy. I was afraid of creating a conflict of interest and instead it as created all this controversy. Little did I know, every article I have created is some kind of conflict of interest, albeit unintended. I can't speak for the rest of the world, but my guess is that there are a lot of people who contribute to Wikipedia and are inadvertently making these mistakes. There may be some people with mal intent, but for the most part I don't think most people, like myself even know how it works.

As I said before, I didn't even understand the concept of a conflict of interest, except in the cases where I was paid. That was where I thought there was concern. I only understood a conflict of interest to be an example of someone getting paid to create a profile and even then I learned that there is a simple protocol of noting that a payment was made. Even on my own article, I don't understand the concept of a conflict of interest if I'm required to adequately and accurately source information. As I requested on your talk page, please stop making accusationsJpop73 (talk) 23:57, 17 April 2016 (UTC)

Jef Levy
− 	Donny Park, Please stop making accusations about me that are unfounded. Jef Levy just contacted me because he noticed changes to his page and tried to fix them himself. I have not touched his page. I have been, honest and cooperative throughout this whole process and even wrote a kind note to you on your page. Please stop with the accusations. thanksJpop73 (talk) 23:31, 16 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Sorry if I have been, I assumed it could be you since some of those were your edits. They were removed since they were not sourced and because of this, I literally had no choice but to report him. Also tell him WP:EDITWAR won't resolve anything and will get him blocked, but then he went past the WP:3RR rule, so again, I have no choice to bring the matter forward. It's upto you to explain this yourself. Donnie Park (talk) 23:42, 16 April 2016 (UTC)
 * I am going to point this out to him that Wikipedia is not LinkedIn (WP:LINKEDIN), neither his article is his (WP:OWN) therefore whatever happens such as nominated for deletion, it's upto the editors not him. Count himself lucky that he hasn't been blocked for what he did yesterday. Donnie Park (talk) 22:14, 17 April 2016 (UTC)

Dear Donnie, Again, thank you. Jef Levy and me and none of my friends, colleagues, organizations, etc. which are subjects of articles that are deemed a conflict of interest because of my misuse and understanding of policy are not trying to abuse or take advantage of Wikipedia. In fact, after personally apologizing to many of them for placing their pages in jeopardy, by accident, many of them are indifferent some are uninterested and some want to be removed altogether. You and some other editors have correctly identified that my articles (and probably all of them) contain a conflict of interest, for which I have apologized repeatedly. The only articles I write about are things or people that I know about. I clearly misunderstood how articles get written and by whom. I had no idea that it is a crime to write about subjects I know personally and I also didn't know that cross promomotion was prohibited. Furthermore, this wikipedia crisis all came about because I was honest about being paid for some articles that I created. I thought getting paid was the only issue that was relavant to a conflict of interest and I thought I handled it correctly. Instead, I have been publicly accused of intentionally violating policy, I have been humiliated in public discussions and treated like a malicious person, an outcast and labled a COI editor, as if I was operating under some contingent of underground evildoers. In addition, my own page, which I carefully worked on with an editor for two years following its acceptance has also been proposed for deletion. I don't know what else to say. Again, I have tried to be cooperative and helpful and you insist on trying to make defamatory remarks about me. I would ask you again to please stop the negative commentary.thank youJpop73 (talk) 00:26, 18 April 2016 (UTC)

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