User talk:Sgl1500

Welcome!
Welcome to Wikipedia, Sgl1500! Thank you for your contributions. I am CNMall41 and I have been editing Wikipedia for some time, so if you have any questions, feel free to leave me a message on my talk page. You can also check out Questions or type at the bottom of this page. Here are some pages that you might find helpful: Also, when you post on talk pages you should sign your name using four tildes ( ~ ); that will automatically produce your username and the date. I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! CNMall41 (talk) 00:32, 5 June 2018 (UTC)
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Brent Hocking
I reverted your edits to Brent Hocking again. Despite having references, the tone is very promotional and reads like an advertisement for the brands. For instance, using terms like "shattering" is not the type of tone that is encyclopedic. Please use the talk page if you wish to add this type of content. That way you can get a consensus for what can be added without going through a drawn out edit war. --CNMall41 (talk) 19:05, 29 June 2018 (UTC)

July 2018
Hello. This is a message to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions, such as the edit you made to Brent Hocking, did not appear constructive and has been reverted. Please take some time to familiarise yourself with our policies and guidelines. You can find information about these at our welcome page which also provides further information about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. If you only meant to make test edits, please use the sandbox for that. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you may leave a message on my talk page. ''Please familiarize yourself with WP:EW. I have twice reverted and given you reasons why, including opening a discussion on the talk page. Wikipedia works on consensus, not by edit warring. '' CNMall41 (talk) 16:55, 2 July 2018 (UTC)

Brent Hocking suggestion
I went through the first half of your suggestions and left comments about what I feel is wrong with each. I thought I would suggest that much of the information is about the individual companies where the information would belong. May I suggest adding to those pages since they link from Brent Hocking? Things such as the event and the awards for the brand would be better suited to those locations. Either way, I look forward to the continued discussion. No need to ping me on my talk page as I have the page on my watchlist so I see when there is a change. Thanks again. --CNMall41 (talk) 19:12, 7 July 2018 (UTC)

Conflict of interest in Wikipedia
Hi Sgl1500. I spend time working on conflict of interest issues here in Wikipedia, along with my regular editing, which is mostly about health and medicine. I am not an administrator.

I was asked here to have a look at what you have been doing. Based on what you wrote here I have serious concerns, and what you wrote here is not helpful.

Lots of people come to Wikipedia with some sort of conflict of interest and are not aware of how the editing community defines and manages conflict of interest. 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, Sgl1500. 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. 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, company, organization or competitors;
 * propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (see 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 must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID).

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. Unmanaged conflicts of interest can also lead to people behaving in ways that violate our behavioral policies and cause disruption in the normal editing process. Managing conflict of interest well, also protects conflicted editors themselves as well as subjects about whom they are editing - please see WP:Wikipedia is in the real world, and Conflict-of-interest editing on Wikipedia for some guidance and stories about people who have brought bad press upon themselves through unmanaged conflict of interest editing.

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 Brent Hocking, companies he founded, or any industry trade group, 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. Please also disclose if your job includes public relations or marketing. Please also disclose the relationships of the "we" that you mentioned, with Hocking, companies he founded, etc.

Please do not try to evaluate if you have a conflict of interest or if you are "paid" as we define that here; what I am asking you to disclose are the external relationships of yourself and the other people with whom you are working.

After you respond (and you can just reply below), we can discuss if your answer is what the editing community needs to evaluate your apparent conflict of interest, and then, if it is relevant I can walk you through how the "peer review" part happens 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) 20:32, 10 July 2018 (UTC)