User talk:Ryan.rabellino

Dominic Foppoli
Missvain,

I do not have an existing relationship or COI with the subject person, and kindly request you reconsider the changes I spent several hours adding to or editing as I:

1) Provided important additional context on the page, including middle name, date-of-birth, facts on business interests, facts on political positions, facts on party affiliation and the like; 2) Corrected several pieces of misinformation; 3) Felt I strengthened the overall *fact-based* information provided.

Should you wish to see my edit history, I encourage it, as I stand by the additions I spent several hours working on. Even if public records cannot be used as citations, so be it and feel free to scrub accordingly, but everything edited and added to is factually correct and it is frustrating to see every item I added or added, based on fact, removed with the strike of a button.

Ryan.rabellino (talk) 21:54, 28 April 2021 (UTC)Ryan.rabellinoRyan.rabellino (talk) 21:54, 28 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Hi Ryan!


 * 1) I'm really glad you're enthusiastic about editing about Dominic Foppoli. I see you actually might have some conflicts of interest though - you are president of the Active 20/30 in Santa Rosa and the PR firm you work for does (or has) worked with James Gore. I actually live in Sonoma County (but I do not know Foppoli). I appreciate all the great work you do for our county, including that awesome fire fundraiser - I remember it, and was unable to attend, unfortunately!
 * 2) Second, I encourage you to take Wikipedia Adventure, a great step-by-step learning tool on how to edit Wikipedia. (Perhaps the firm will let you on work time)
 * 3) Third, I did read your edit history - both of them. I was able to include some of your typo edits and the information about Windsor Brewing Co. Thank you!
 * 4) Next, please review Biographies_of_living_persons. That links to our policy that states that how we cannot use public records for birth dates, etc, and how we do not use public records to write "facts" about living people. This is due to our strict guidelines around biographies of living people.
 * 5) Finally, it's also best to declare any possible conflicts of interest. While you might not see one, other editors (including me, as someone who knows the in's and out's about Foppoli at this point) might - such as the connection to Active 20/30 or your role in political PR in the County. You can read more about how to do that here. Now, a conflict of interest is as simple as your company paying you to edit Wikipdia. It's a Wednesday afternoon, and it is possible that the firm you work for is paying you to do it. That happens a lot here. So, that is a conflict of interest - even if you're not engaging with the subject at all (or anymore).
 * Feel free to ask additional questions, or, please visit WP:Teahouse to ask questions about editing. Wikipedia is a weird place, but, we do what we do with purpose and a goal to embrace information and educate the public in a neutral, boring way. On behalf of all editors, welcome, and we hope you'll chose to learn more about our processes! Missvain (talk) 22:44, 28 April 2021 (UTC)

Conflict of interest
Hello, Ryan.rabellino. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Dominic Foppoli, 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 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 Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Missvain (talk) 21:44, 28 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Appreciate your enthusiasm about Foppoli's article, but, we can't use public records to improve an article. Also, we lower case "mayor" and such. Please check out WP:MOS and WP:RS to learn more. Please feel free to suggest any changes to the talk page. Thanks. Missvain (talk) 21:46, 28 April 2021 (UTC)

User:Ryan.rabellino
Hello, Ryan,

I'm puzzled. You had no user page but you created one just so you could request its deletion. Why did you simultaneously create and request deletion of your user page? You could have just not created it and then an admin wouldn't have had to come by to delete the page, creating unnecessary work. Liz Read! Talk! 00:39, 29 April 2021 (UTC)