User talk:Rotemgigaspaces

Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, Rotemgigaspaces. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the page WalkMe, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the COI 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 (you can use 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 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 WP:PAID. Thank you. GermanJoe (talk) 14:14, 9 September 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for the valuable information GermanJoe‬. Can I re-edit the topic following your comments?


 * Of course you can, all editors without a COI are welcome to contribute in mainspace. Reverting and/or improving each other's edits is part of the editing process (see also WP:BRD). One last quick tip though: it is entirely optional, but I would recommend to edit 1 paragraph at a time. With smaller edits it is easier to revert problematic changes while preserving other good-faith improvements in separate edits. GermanJoe (talk) 08:36, 10 September 2019 (UTC)

Great tips, thanks mate!

Your mail
Hello Rotemgigaspaces, thank you for your mail. However, it would be better to discuss further non-confidential details on article talk for transparency. If you have no direct conflict of interest, that's great - of course contributions from topic experts are always welcome. Regarding your question about improving the WalkMe article, there are 2 main concerns: Most importantly, you should try to avoid using typical PR speak like "delivers a comprehensive solution to understand user behavior and simplify the user experience". Such vapid PR phrases are - unfortunately - common in trade magazines but entirely unsuitable for an encyclopedia. Wikipedia articles should present their topics in an uninvolved and dispassionate, non-promotional manner - the style of writing is entirely different.

Secondly, try to avoid using interview-based advertorials from said trade magazines as far as possible. Sometimes referencing such sources is unavoidable if no better sources exist, but they are not particularly good sources and should only be used for uncontroversial, non-promotional information. Product information, especially claims of quality and success, should be based on critical analysis and reviews from unbiased journalists and other experts, not on marketing publications. You'll find more information about these 2 broad aspects at WP:NPOV and WP:RS respectively, but please feel free to ask on my user talkpage if you have further questions. WP:Teahouse is also a good forum to get Wikipedia-related advice. GermanJoe (talk) 08:05, 10 September 2019 (UTC)