User talk:Jnfrankcobalt

Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, Jnfrankcobalt. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, 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. Chris Troutman ( talk ) 16:45, 4 November 2019 (UTC)


 * Response: While I see the logic here, I have not been paid to edit this article. I simply did this research and decided to add it to the page to make the page stronger. Additionally, there were no graphics associated with the Petabytes page. The graphic provided improves the overall quality of the page while also giving credit to all pages involved in calculating the information.
 * If I need to disclose a connection to a source I will gladly do so, although the image in question isn't an advertisement or a paid edit. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jnfrankcobalt (talk • contribs) 12:00, 4 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Yes, you do need to disclose your apparent external connection to your edits. Why is File:How-big-is-a-petabyte-chart-infographic.jpg branded "cobaltIRON"? Could you agree that adding a branded image to Wikipedia is a tacit advertisement in violation of our terms of service? Chris Troutman  ( talk ) 17:06, 4 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Response: The brand Cobalt Iron is listed because a majority of the information was provided by Cobalt Iron. The other sources of information were also given credit on the graphic, which is Lifewire.com and blog.loc.gov. I do not believe using a brand logo to give credit to the organization that did a majority of the work would count as a violation. If it is a violation I can re-upload the graphic and list the sources as equal parts without any brand logos. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jnfrankcobalt (talk • contribs) 12:13, 4 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Yes, please re-upload as you've described. Chris Troutman  ( talk ) 14:10, 6 November 2019 (UTC)