User talk:Filamentwinding01

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I noticed that one of the first articles you edited was Drive shaft, which appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article.&#32;Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

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Drive shaft
Hi, thanks for the addition. Composite shafts are a real thing, we have been lacking in coverage of them, so thanks for starting to add some. If you're familiar with drive shafts, then there are probably a whole load of sections that could use your help.

I see some trouble ahead though. WP reacts to what is easy to do much more than to what needs doing. So expect trouble about "WP:COI" etc. There are a couple of issues here.
 * Username. WP hates usernames that look to have some commercial connection. It also hates usernames that look to be shared accounts between people, rather than individuals. This is ridiculous of course, because accounts are anonymous and so there is just no connection between being a shared account and having a name that suggests it. But WP likes the obvious as a target, not the important.
 * I would suggest that you look at changing the username. This is quite easy to do.


 * Links. WP hates spam. WP hates commercial links, and it ought to hate commercial links which are to a sales catalogue rather than some reputable and useful content. That said, commercial vendors often do make lots of product information available in a useful manner - but WP often doesn't recognise this.
 * COI. Please read WP:NPOV, WP:RS, WP:V and the rest of the alphabet soup.  Rightly, WP needs to stay neutral and not push one vendor's role above another. Although if one vendor invests in a good parts catalogue with design information, then that should be favoured by WP over one which is merely a parts list.

Given past experience, I see trouble ahead. This is wrong, but as it has always happened in the past, I see it happening again. WP hates competence and commercial experience. I'll try and assist if I can, also give the Teahouse a try. Andy Dingley (talk) 09:41, 28 June 2016 (UTC)