User talk:Phnicolas

Your submission at Articles for creation: The IT Press Tour (January 10)
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Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 14:25, 10 January 2015 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:The IT Press Tour


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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing.  Rich T&#124;C&#124;E-Mail 23:49, 21 August 2015 (UTC)

Problems with upload of File:OpenIO-Logo GfA.png
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March 2016
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Thank you. Drm310 (talk) 05:09, 8 March 2016 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, Phnicolas. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the article OpenIO, 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. In particular, please:


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Speedy deletion nomination of OpenIO
Hello Phnicolas,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged OpenIO for deletion, because it seems to be promotional, rather than an encyclopedia article.

If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to work on it, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. ubiquity (talk) 16:52, 8 March 2016 (UTC)

OpenIO
The overwhelming majority of your contributions are focused on promoting this company. You are not doing it any favors. To whatever extent that it actually belongs in other articles, they can be added by another editor who does not have such a blindingly obvious conflict of interest. Continue to insert references to it yourself and I will block you from editing. —Cryptic 19:36, 8 March 2016 (UTC)

Ok understand even, I will ask someone outside of the project to add them if this your comment. But please justify and explain me why you have accepted employee (yes employee) to post articles about their company. I can point you to these articles. I don't get the rational here. Thx -- pnico 19:43, 8 March 2016 (UTC)

Hello, still don't understand why you removed this article, someone asked me to add references I added plenty of them. Again you maintain similar articles and you refuse this one. Could you tell me why ? there is no logic behind this ? I don't understand why you also removed the addtion to Object Storage article refering OpenIO like all other players or projects Thank you --pnico 19:40, 8 March 2016 (UTC)pnico — Preceding unsigned comment added by Phnicolas (talk • contribs)
 * There's a number of pithily-named essays I could point you at (WP:Don't add sewage to the already polluted pond, WP:OTHERCRAPEXISTS) but the most basic reason is that the others at least attempt not to be overt marketing material. —Cryptic 19:47, 8 March 2016 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Harriet Coverston


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May 2021
Hello Phnicolas. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Object storage, gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, but 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 serious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat search-engine optimization.

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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:Phnicolas. 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, do not edit further until you answer this message. MrOllie (talk) 11:53, 5 May 2021 (UTC)

'''Ph. Nicolas Answer''' Hello, I understand it could appear like that but it's not the case as I already published and gave to the community this picture/image/table without any payment at all, this is not the idea, this is a free contribution to the community. I own all the rights on the image as I built it. I historically published the first iteration in The Register in July 2016, several articles published for years on Wikipedia refers to this article without any problem at all (for instance see this article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenIO, in the references section that article is listed), and this new one was published recently as well on StorageNewsletter April 28, please see this link https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2021/04/28/timeline-for-object-storage/. This is given for free, no fee or sponsorship or any other compensation, the timeline is an effort to the community that doesn't exist anywhere else, it was the idea why I initially created it, to help the community and serve as a reference that can be used openly completely free of charge again. Of course I mentioned different sources and as you can see I list at least 50 companies so there is no promotion either on that for any storage vendors. Thank you to consider these points. As a general article on object storage with a part on history, it makes just sense to have this timeline included. pnico 14:53, 5 May 2021 (UTC)