User talk:Olivierzara

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Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, Olivierzara. 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 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. MrOllie (talk) 15:32, 3 October 2021 (UTC)

No conflict of Interest for me but you decide
Hello MrOllie [|MrOllie], I am the author of several books on the theme of collective intelligence since 2004. I understand the conflict of interest, but is it normal to refuse the publication of a link to a book directly related to the content of the page? Moreover, I have removed the link to one of my books which dates back to 2004 and you accept this removal. So there is no conflict of interest when you remove content, only when you add content? I can understand removing spam, advertising, but removing the reference to a book that presents a manifesto of collective intelligence on the collective intelligence page: I don't understand. Can you explain it to me? Did you look at the content of the book and the blog before deleting everything? I put the link to the book's website which proposes to read the whole book for free.

Sincerely, Olivier Zara


 * You absolutely have a conflict of interest if you are adding your own books to articles. The first sentence of the conflict of interest guidelines state: Conflict of interest (COI) editing involves contributing to Wikipedia about yourself, family, friends, clients, employers, or your financial and other relationships. Adding your own blogs and books violates this guideline. Notfrompedro (talk) 15:59, 3 October 2021 (UTC)


 * Everyone thinks their own book, or blog, or advertising is exceptional for one reason or another and should be listed on Wikipedia - this is why we have the guidelines on Conflict of Interest, because it is nearly impossible to judge such things objectively when dealing with your own work. Thanks for removing the book reference that you had added under another account some years ago. That was still a COI edit, yes, but since removing the book is the right thing to do either way I let it stand. I do not think that the adding your other book or blog link was the right thing to do, so I removed those. - MrOllie (talk) 16:14, 3 October 2021 (UTC)

Thank you for your answer! I have removed my book Managing Collective Intelligence published in 2004 so the conflict of interest is solved for this book. The new version published in 2016 is not translated in English and did not want to send people to an old version. I understand the "why" of the rules. Since you control a page on collective intelligence, you may have an interest in the subject. If someone in your community wants to read the collective intelligence manifesto on my blog and the book associated with that manifesto, I hope they will post it on this page. You can read the full version of the book for free... like in Wikipedia. Hope is life ;-)

Kind regards, Olivier Zara