User talk:Jmmeisner

Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, Jmmeisner. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Dave Bautista, 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:


 * avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization or competitors;
 * propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the request edit template);
 * disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see Conflict of interest);
 * avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see WP:Spam);
 * do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 18:29, 12 May 2021 (UTC)

May 2021
Hello Jmmeisner. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Talk:Dave Bautista, gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, 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 serious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat search-engine optimization.

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. If the article does not exist, paid advocates are extremely strongly discouraged 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:Jmmeisner. 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. Since you have made a declaration here Run n Fly (talk) 18:33, 12 May 2021 (UTC)
 * I am going ahead and added it since you already made a declaration. Run n Fly (talk) 18:36, 12 May 2021 (UTC)

I hope I am doing as you're asking when I confirm here that I am not being paid directly or being indirectly compensated for my edits. I was simply trying to correct errors on the page, and furthermore contribute the new film to that section. Please let me know what else I can do to satisfy any guidelines that I may have missed or misunderstood. Thank you kindly. Jmmeisner (talk) 18:53, 12 May 2021 (UTC)
 * , But confirms yours WP:COI and potential strong case of WP:PAID that you seems to deny. I would strongly suggest not to edit Dave Bautista or related pages in Wikipedia directly. If you need any further help post your queries at Teahouse. Thank you. Run n Fly (talk) 19:05, 12 May 2021 (UTC)

I am not denying that I work with David. What I was saying is that it is not any part of my job or compensation, directly or indirectly to try to help the Wikipedia community have a correct birthplace and height. I am trying to contribute as an impartial person who knows the information is wrong. Does that information help? Jmmeisner (talk) 19:12, 12 May 2021 (UTC)
 * , the long and the short of it is that you need to request edits, like you did. There is a different edit request template that we request editors with a conflict of interest use, which is request edit. The issue the height and weight request is that we don't use IMDB as a reliable source since it is user generated content without actual editorial control or fact checking. I'm going to look into the birth location now. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 20:23, 12 May 2021 (UTC)
 * I fixed the birth location, and I also removed the paid editor template from your user page. I did add a userbox saying you disclosed a COI with regards to Dave Bautista, but you can remove that as well. Conflict_of_interest covers the ways in which you can disclose your COI while editing. As far as the height and weight go someone already removed them which is better than having the wrong information, but if you'd like the correct information listed we'll need a reliable source for that. Thanks. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 20:41, 12 May 2021 (UTC)

Thank you, I do appreciate your help. I really was trying to make the page accurate. I've never done this before, so I'll make sure to do more research if something comes up in the future. Jmmeisner (talk) 22:29, 12 May 2021 (UTC)

Notice of Conflict of interest noticeboard discussion
There is currently a discussion at Conflict of interest/Noticeboard regarding a possible conflict of interest incident with which you may be involved. Thank you. Run n Fly (talk) 19:23, 12 May 2021 (UTC)

"WWE takes some liberties"
No shit :-) But Wikipedia works from reliable sources. Can you provide sources - newspapers, for example - that address the fact that his height is misrepresented by WWE? Guy (help! - typo?) 20:54, 12 May 2021 (UTC)

This might surprise you but in an upcoming article in a major print magazine, they used Dave's Wiki height in the first paragraph of the article and that's what even brought it to my attention.

I had hoped that his IMDB page would suffice and I've been scouring the internet for a news source, but it's just not something talked about often. But he is 6'4" =)

I will say that I think Chris Pratt's height correct at 6'2 and he actually looks taller than Dave in many photos, so IDK. Funny thing is I just thought I was helping...

I don't quite understand how it would be advantageous to correct the mistake, but I do understand that you want reliability in your data. That's what I was trying to provide. Jmmeisner (talk) 22:24, 12 May 2021 (UTC)