User talk:R1bowie

Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, R1bowie. 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 COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic, and it is important when editing Wikipedia articles that such connections be completely transparent. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. In particular, we ask that you please:


 * avoid editing or creating articles related to you and your family, friends, school, company, club, or organization, as well as any competing companies' projects or products;
 * instead, you are encouraged to propose changes on the Talk pages of affected article(s) (see the request edit template);
 * when discussing affected articles, disclose your COI (see WP:DISCLOSE);
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In addition, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID).

Please take a few moments to read and review Wikipedia's policies regarding conflicts of interest, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, sourcing and autobiographies. Thank you. MrOllie (talk) 16:07, 21 April 2017 (UTC)

July 2018
Please do not add promotional material to Wikipedia, as you did to List of backup software. 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 inclusion criteria for this list are clearly explained on top of the list: an existing article based on independent sources. Any additions without such a sourced Wikipedia article will be removed. Also, please disclose your conflict of interest, as required by WMF's Terms of Use and our guidelines.'' GermanJoe (talk) 19:15, 16 July 2018 (UTC)

This software was removed from the page a while back, most likely by a competitor, and I added it back in the same format as ALL of the other software in the list. The ENTIRE page is both informational and promotional.

R1Soft is backup software which was born in web hosting in 2003 and has been part of the internet ever since. It is available from very small web hosting companies to companies the size of IBM Cloud https://knowledgelayer.softlayer.com/topic/r1soft-cdp

I provided the exact same level of detail (factual information about the R1Soft feature set) and links back to the software as every other proprietary solution on this page. In the case of R1Soft I can link to an open wiki that serves as product documentation.

How, without editing the page, do I get our software included in this list of backup software?

I am the VP of Engineering for R1Soft, which is readily found by searching my name plus R1Soft.

R1bowie (talk) 22:37, 16 July 2018 (UTC)


 * All other entries are linked to existing Wikipedia articles. If your product is not "notable" (in Wikipedia's sense of the term - see WP:GNG), it shouldn't be added. Also, other editors shouldn't have to search via Google for any connections: if you have a "conflict of interest", it is up to you to be upfront about it and make a proper transparent disclosure (see WP:COI). This information was already provided in April by the way - see the message on top of this talkpage. If you have any further questions, I recommend you ask at WP:Teahouse, a forum for new editors. GermanJoe (talk) 14:48, 17 July 2018 (UTC)