User talk:Jveeds

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Again, welcome! Aristophanes 68  (talk)  01:33, 10 June 2015 (UTC)

RFC notice
As someone interested in the, I thought I'd let you know an RFC has been started over reliable sources. Please join in Talk:List_of_ministers_of_the_Universal_Life_Church. Me-123567-Me (talk) 23:28, 1 January 2016 (UTC)

trying to "move" page (re-title)
I've been commissioned by Honeywell to update their TPE331 page with the correct corporate name, improve the citations and add new material with appropriate citations.

I'm not sure if this is the correct place to ask for help so I've also emailed nfo-en@wikimedia.org.

I've already made most of the substantive changes, though there are some citations that need to be fixed or adjusted, which I figured I'd do separately.

However, I've been wandering around the Wiki Help/Talk pages for about 30 minutes now trying to figure out how to contact someone about my current project.

Here's what I want to do, in a nutshell: Change the name from Garrett TPE331 page to Honeywell TPE331. From what I've read, this means "moving" it and using the new name. However, the system says I cannot move it because the new name is already in use.

Can someone advise quickly?

And thanks for the warm cookies.

Jveeds (talk) 20:10, 8 June 2018 (UTC)jveeds

Conflict of interest disclosure is MANDATORY
Since you admit you've been "commissioned by Honeywell": Hello Jveeds. 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 Garrett TPE331, and that 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:Jveeds. 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, please do not edit further until you answer this message. -- Orange Mike &#124;  Talk  00:52, 9 June 2018 (UTC)

Can someone...besides "Orange Mike"...help me fix the Garrett TPE331 wiki page?

It took me 15 minutes just to read through his somewhat rude diatribe (where I "admitted" and was an "egregious" black hat) and I still didn't understand a thing he was talking about. All I'm trying to do is correct errors and add accurate, useful "neutral" information and now I have to parse this person's nerdistry.

It may be that I don't have the technical skills to undertake this editing project, so if that's Wikipedia's goal...to discourage anyone who is simply trying to correct errors in an existing page...well done Orange Mike!

I've been involved with Wikipedia practically since its beginnings and have been a staunch defender to students in my own classrooms besides doing minor editing from time to time. But if this is the kind of backlash I can expect in the "Talk" room (which I also don't completely understand) then it may be time to reconsider Wikipedia's role.

Maybe Wikipedia is only for the expert coders and the rest of us, albeit experts in our fields, should just "go fish." — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:8800:E81:9930:4182:5289:5CEC:8BE7 (talk) 20:47, 9 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Since you have been commissioned by Honeywell, as you stated here, you just need to follow the instructions at Paid-contribution disclosure. Cordless Larry (talk) 20:56, 9 June 2018 (UTC)
 * (edit conflict)Jveeds stated here that he or she had been commissioned by Honeywell to update their TPE331 page. That' appears to be a clear admission of WP:PAID editing. Paid editing is only allowed under certain conditions, and this account is in violation of those conditions. Being  paid to edit a company's page without disclosed that fact is an egregious violation. There's nothing rude at all about a canned message pertaining to that unethical behaviour. Since  you (assuming you are Jveeds now using the IP rather than than your named account, or else why would you have posted this)  claim to be a professional writer, editor, and teacher who has been involved in Wikipedia since near the beginning you should be very well aware of these rules. Meters (talk) 21:08, 9 June 2018 (UTC)

Reply
I replied to you on my talk page.—Finell 20:31, 15 June 2018 (UTC)

Promotional editing
Please do not add promotional material to Wikipedia. While objective prose about beliefs, organisations, people, products or services is acceptable, Wikipedia is not intended to be a vehicle for soapboxing, advertising or promotion. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 18:09, 16 June 2018 (UTC)