User talk:SWEETBOX Management

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Hello, SWEETBOX Management, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.

I notice that one of the first articles you edited was Sweetbox, which appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article. Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

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The key value of Wikipedia is having a system in place to let the public verify the truth of an article. If someone is writing a wrong fact, another one can delete it or correct it. And the Wiki community should support that without making guesses that someone who is might familiar with the facts or the topic will always have a conflict of interest. In this concrete case and I ask you as the Editor for active help please, I'm running this "topic" for 18 years now and my only goal is to have every fact 100% correct. Main reason: Sites like facebook have automated accounts just copying the Wiki Infos and if these info's aren't correct and / or the opposite of what we are saying on our social media sites, fans of the project either trust us or start distrusting Wiki. That can not be in the interest of the Wiki Community and this is not in my interest neither. So there is no conflict of interest here.

I have started editing the text (not writing a new article) by correcting things like "the project is german based". It is not. Since 2008, everyone involved in the project lives in Los Angeles. Then I have started deleting advertisement hints for products and projects of former SWEETBOX members, who are using this article and the large fanbase of SWEETBOX as a platform to promote their own new projects (which doesn't have anything to do with SWEETBOX at all). Wiki is not a promotion platform for special interests.

Then finally, I deleted emotional content, written by a former SWEETBOX singer like "she left because she was upset with the management". A) it is wrong and B) it doesn't have any editorial value for the Wiki community beside the fact that she left. There are many blogs in the internet out there, where every one, including former members of SWEETBOX can say emotionally everything they want and try to find their audience for it, but this shouldn't be on a serious platform like Wiki. It's simple unprofessional and Wiki Editors should indeed watch, control and correct this.

And I have added one sentence at the end of the article saying that the new album is announced for June 2013. Which is public knowledge and already on many SWEETBOX fan websites like www.sweetbox-heaven.com (not controlled or edited by me).

Can you please help me with these changes and support it ? Thanks a lot. -- Heiko Schmidt


 * Hello, Heiko Schmidt. Your edits were noticed because our editors believed that you are affiliated with with the subject of the article (i.e. Sweetbox) and might make biased edits, looking at your username and your edits. Editing with a conflict of interest is strongly discouraged because it may introduce bias to article and make the content non-neutral. Also, the username policy prohibits the use of promotional usernames, you can either choose to change your username to represent yourself as a individual (like User:Heiko Schmidt), or create a new account.
 * [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sweetbox&diff=prev&oldid=538310796 Your edit] to the Sweetbox origin looks good, but you need add citations (or references) to prove the credibility of the added content. But your removal of information about Jade Valerie looks non-neutral and it's best to start a discussion on the article's talk page to reach consensus before editing. [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sweetbox&diff=prev&oldid=538311563 Your second edit] looks fine, but citations are needed. Your addition of information about the new album is okay, but Facebook (and Twitter, fan sites, etc) is user-generated and is not suitable for citations, and the various download links are also not enough to support the credibility of the information.
 * Editors with COI (including you) are welcome to edit responsibly, you are encouraged to disclose your conflict of interest on your user page (Create it!) like [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Solomon_Trujillo&diff=prev&oldid=205038309 this real example]. If you have any questions, please ask them here or put it on my talk page. You are also welcome to our IRC help channel for live chat (My nickname on IRC is Zhaofeng_Li). Good luck! Zhaofeng Li [ talk... contribs... ] 12:47, 16 February 2013 (UTC)