User talk:RoboticMind

Welcome!
Hello, RoboticMind, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:
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Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or, and a volunteer should respond shortly. Again, welcome! Jytdog (talk) 16:09, 4 September 2017 (UTC)

spamming gridcoin.us
Wikipedia is built from secondary sources -- references that describe their subject. We summarize those here. Please avoid using primary sources like company websites.

Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a collection of links, nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate links include, but are not limited to, links to personal websites, links to websites with which you are affiliated (whether as a link in article text, or a citation in an article), and links that attract visitors to a website or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam guideline for further explanations. Because Wikipedia uses the nofollow attribute value, its external links are disregarded by most search engines. If you feel the link should be added to the page, please discuss it on the associated talk page rather than re-adding it. Thank you. Jytdog (talk) 16:10, 4 September 2017 (UTC)

Conflict of interest in Wikipedia
Hi RoboticMind. I work on conflict of interest issues here in Wikipedia, along with my regular editing. Your edits to date are on a bit of a run about Gridcoin. I'm giving you notice of our Conflict of Interest guideline and Terms of Use, and will have some comments and requests for you below.

Hello, RoboticMind. 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);
 * avoid linking to the Wikipedia article or to the website of your organization in other articles (see WP:SPAM);
 * exercise great caution so that you do not violate 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).

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.

Also please note that editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you.

Comments and requests
Wikipedia is a widely-used reference work and managing conflict of interest is essential for ensuring the integrity of Wikipedia and retaining the public's trust in it. As in academia, COI is managed here in two steps - disclosure and a form of peer review. Please note that there is no bar to being part of the Wikipedia community if you want to be involved in articles where you have a conflict of interest; there are just some things we ask you to do (and if you are paid, some things you need to do).

Disclosure is the most important, and first, step. While I am not asking you to disclose your identity (anonymity is strictly protecting by our WP:OUTING policy) would you please disclose if you have some connection with the folks running Gridcoin, directly or through a third party (e.g. a PR agency or the like)? You can answer how ever you wish (giving personally identifying information or not), but if there is a connection, please disclose it. After you respond (and you can just reply below), I can walk you through how the "peer review" part happens if necessary and then, if you like, I can provide you with some more general orientation as to how this place works. Please reply here, just below, to keep the discussion in one place. Thanks! Jytdog (talk) 16:13, 4 September 2017 (UTC)


 * I don't have any connections with gridcoin, I didn't realise that wiki.gridcoin.us wasn't a part of wikipedia. I Just am really passionate about cryptocurrencies and Gridcoin and got a bit carried away. — Preceding unsigned comment added by RoboticMind (talk • contribs) 17:18, 4 September 2017 (UTC)


 * Thanks for replying!  Quick note on the logistics of discussing things on Talk pages, which are essential for everything that happens here. In Talk page discussions, we "thread" comments by indenting - when you reply to someone, you put a colon in front of your comment, and the Wikipedia software converts that into an indent or tab when you save your edit; if the other person has indented once, then you indent twice by putting two colons which the WP software converts into two indents, and when that gets ridiculous you reset back to the margin (or "outdent") by putting this  in front of your comment. This also allows you to make it clear if you are also responding to something that someone else responded to if there are more than two people in the discussion; in that case you would indent the same amount as the person just above you in the thread.
 * I did that above - I added one colon in front of your comment, and did it here -- there are two colons in front of this reply.
 * Also at the end of the comment, please "sign" by typing exactly four (not 3 or 5) tildas "~" which the WP software converts into a date stamp and links to your talk and user pages when you save your edit. That is how we know who said what.  I know this is insanely archaic and unwieldy, but this is the software environment we have to work on. Sorry about that.  Will reply on the substance in a second... Jytdog (talk) 17:38, 4 September 2017 (UTC)


 * OK, now on the substance. As I noted above, the mission of Wikipedia is to "summarize accepted knowledge".  That is a mission that aims high!  We find "accepted knowledge" in what we cal "reliable sources", which are defined in the reliable sources guideline.  But basically, think "New York Times" not some blog, and think "academic book", not a company website.  There are a lot of hype-y blogs about crytocurrencies, and lots of enthusiasts who come here and have used them... we are still catching up and cleaning up after people. Maintaining article quality is a never-ending job in this open encyclopedia.
 * The welcome message above has links that provide a basic orientation to what we do here, and how we do it.
 * But thanks again for your swift and gracious reply, and good luck! Jytdog (talk) 17:42, 4 September 2017 (UTC)