User talk:Mmondanile

Nomination of Ducktails (band) for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Ducktails (band) is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Ducktails (band) until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article.  Ignatz mice•talk 18:29, 7 May 2013 (UTC)

May 2013
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June 2013
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Conflict of Interest
Hello, Mmondanile. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the page Matt Mondanile, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI 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, company, organization or competitors;
 * propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (see the request edit template);
 * disclose your COI when discussing affected articles (see WP:DISCLOSE);
 * 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 must 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 WP:PAID).

Also please note that editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. PohranicniStraze (talk) 19:12, 26 September 2018 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, Mmondanile. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the page Matt Mondanile, 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, company, organization or competitors;
 * propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (see the request edit template);
 * disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see WP:DISCLOSE);
 * 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 must 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 WP:PAID).

Also please note that editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Peaceray (talk) 16:27, 1 December 2018 (UTC)

December 2018
Hello, I'm Peaceray. I noticed that you recently removed content from Matt Mondanile without adequately explaining why. In the future, it would be helpful to others if you described your changes to Wikipedia with an accurate edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry; the removed content has been restored. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. Peaceray (talk) 16:30, 1 December 2018 (UTC)

Conflict of Interest, Biographies of Living Persons, and Verifiability over "The Truth"
Hi, my name is, and I wanted to take a minute to share a bit about how we do things here at Wikipedia after I saw your edit summary here on Ducktails. I think I can read a fair bit of stress and strife from it, and I don't think it helps anyone if a collaborative, helpful editor isn't feeling great about it. On the other hand, Wikipedia has a set of rules and policies it requires each of it editors to follow in order to maintain a reliable, scholastic, and neutral encyclopedia. Some of these can be a little hard to find or understand, so I'm hoping to help clear things up a bit.

I'd like to start from the top, with "this is the truth." Wikipedia has a policy on Verifiability which to us is almost more important than the truth - a strange concept to be sure but think of it this way: it's more important to be able to prove something is true, than to simply say it is true. Because of this policy, in order to remove or add some information (especially to a Biography of a living person/group) we requires a reliable source for that information. In this regard, your removal was fair and in accordance with policy because we did not have a source stating that was what happened. However, we can't accept yours or any other single editor's word on it from a simple comment there. In order to reinstate the "they just decided not to option his album Jersey Devil," information, we'd have to find a secondary source that is not related to the musician or the label that reported that independently.

I admit this can make it difficult sometimes to find a good source for information you know personally, and want to share, but this cuts back to the verifiability thing. It might not be notable to include, it could have mis-interpretted from the first-hand account, or, perish the thought, the person relaying the information could be trying to mislead others. Of course, I'm not accusing you of lying, and I'm sad if others are suggesting you are (as your edit summary implies). Please understand for the most part we're all trying to make this the best source of free information, and we'd like to have you on our side, not frustrated, etc. But we have these policies we need to follow to refute pure bedlam on the site.

Which brings me to my thrid topic of discussion. Conflict of Interest is a big deal here. And a much bigger one than the casual observer may think. In essence it boils down to "While we've tried for years, we can't trust people to edit on their own subjects neutrally, so we have to make special steps for them to suggest edits or produce claims against inaccurate information about them instead." People wouldn't provide sources, or think that lying on the internet would serve them better in the long run, or that Wikipedia was some kind of free advertising source (It's not. It's not quite a few things. We have a List).

Because of this, I'm asking you not to edit any of the articles that appear to be about you or your works directyly (Ducktails, Matt Mondanile, etc.) and instead use the Requested Edit feature on the talk page for each of those articles to help improve the information there. There's even a bunch of handy templates you can slap down to make it easier. But I'm warning you too, if you continue to make changes to articles you're affiliated with, you could be subject sanctioning, even more warnings on your talk page, as above, and even up being banned. We try to take this stuff seriously.

Don't let that come off as too hard, but do take it to heart. We're here to build an encyclopedia, not let people get on soap boxes. If you still have any questions on this stuff, please let me know either with a response here, or on my own talk page. I can also point you towards resources for helping you find those quality sources, or how to declare your COI status, or even just help writing in a neutral tone. Let us know, we're here to help.

Thanks for letting me take some of your time, and again, thanks for helping make this site ever-better. Cheers! Elfabet (talk) 14:30, 19 July 2019 (UTC)

(PS: In your future requests, you can cite the WP:BLPREMOVE policy to help reason your requests for removal of libelous content. We do love our policies in explanations.~)