User talk:Mark at Searchfunder

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Conflict of interest and username concerns
Welcome to Wikipedia. I saw that you edited or created Search fund, and I noticed that your username, "Searchfundercom", may not comply with our username policy. Please note that you may not use a username that represents the name of a company, group, organization, product, or website. Examples of usernames that are not allowed include "XYZ Company", "MyWidgetsUSA.com", and "Foobar Museum of Art". However, you are permitted to use a username that contains such a name if it identifies you individually, such as "Sara Smith at XYZ Company", "Mark at WidgetsUSA", or "FoobarFan87".

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 * Hi Fred, sorry about that. I have requested a name change to comply with the policy.  We just want to provide the most up to date numbers on the number of search funds in the marketplace (we are the main source of searchfund information on the web).  There is a competitor called "Etaclub.org" formerly "Equire.co" which keeps changing the underlying url of our sourced numbers to redirect to their site even though it is our data so we are in a somewhat slow edit war with them.  We would just like to mainly provide updated numbers and be correctly attributed but will wait for your response before proceeding.
 * Hi Fred, sorry about that. I have requested a name change to comply with the policy.  We just want to provide the most up to date numbers on the number of search funds in the marketplace (we are the main source of searchfund information on the web).  There is a competitor called "Etaclub.org" formerly "Equire.co" which keeps changing the underlying url of our sourced numbers to redirect to their site even though it is our data so we are in a somewhat slow edit war with them.  We would just like to mainly provide updated numbers and be correctly attributed but will wait for your response before proceeding.


 * Since you have a conflict of interest, you should not be editing that article directly at all. —C.Fred (talk) 00:08, 8 May 2019 (UTC)


 * Understandable, can we at least revert the edits to before our competitors hijacked our source (using anonymous edits or with their now deleted user 'Searchfunds')?


 * No, you may not. Which version would you have reverted to? I'll take a look and see what would change. —C.Fred (talk) 00:45, 8 May 2019 (UTC)
 * We’d like to revert it to this version before our competitors started taking down places we were linked. Another editor actually reverted the first source hijacking.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:MobileDiff/812293176