User talk:Smasafy

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Spam
Creating articles about your company, or its products, or adding links to your own website, are all forbidden for obvious reasons, and will be removed. Please see Spam. – Smyth\talk 11:39, 9 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Hi Smyth,
 * I wanted to talk to you about a few links I inserted yesterday. Although the links were to a commercial site - if you look closely, you will see that the destination page contains infomative (and not promotional) white papers and articles on technology subjects such as broadband, NGN, xDSL, IP and Access Networks. Check them out yourself and see. Besides, there are other cases of links to commercial sites, and they were not erased.
 * Link to page with articles: http://www.teledata-networks.com/site/en/teledata.asp?pi=44
 * Best,
 * Smasafy 06:35, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

The documents are indeed informative, but there are literally thousands of pages like yours, and its content is neither deep nor broad enough to justify linking it from every related article. The more important issue here is that you are blatantly adding links to your own website, which at the very least will portray a view of technology favourable to your company's products or services. That is why linking to your own website is strongly frowned upon, almost as much as creating an article about yourself.

You will observe that I also removed many other commercial links while tracking down yours. Certainly I didn't remove every one I saw, but that would have required too much work for one day. – Smyth\talk 07:48, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

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Editing
What is your relation to Brainsway? Ie are you getting paid to contribute? If so you need to disclose per the WP:TOU Doc James  (talk · contribs · email) 20:35, 1 September 2015 (UTC)
 * I assume the answer is yes. Doc James  (talk · contribs · email) 20:03, 21 September 2015 (UTC)

Conflict of interest in Wikipedia
Hi SmasafyI work on conflict of interest issues here in Wikipedia. Your recent edits are all about Brainsway. 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, Smasafy. 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. In particular, please:


 * avoid editing or creating articles related to you and your circle, your organization, its competitors, projects or products;
 * instead propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (see the request edit template);
 * when discussing affected articles, disclose your COI (see WP:DISCLOSE);
 * avoid linking to the Wikipedia article or 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 for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID).

Please familiarize yourself with relevant policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, sourcing and autobiographies. Thank you.

Comments and requests
Others have raised concerns about this with you, but you have not responded yet. Please know that this issue is important.

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 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 Brainsway? You can answer how ever you wish (giving personally identifying information or not), but if there is a connection, with please disclose it. After you respond (and you can just reply below), perhaps we can talk a bit about editing Wikipedia, to give you some more orientation to how this place works. Please reply - I am watching this page. Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jytdog (talk • contribs) 13 February 2016‎ (UTC)


 * Hi, thanks for making a preliminary disclosure on your user page. Please note that per WP:PAID, you must disclose your employer and client for each edit that you make for consideration.  Would you please add to that, disclosure of your employer and client for each article you have edited for pay?  You can just create a bullet list with a wikilink to the article and list the employer and client for each one in parentheses following it, for example.  Full disclosure per PAID is not optional.  Thanks again for coming into compliance with the disclosure piece of policy and COI guideline. When this is done we can talk about the other aspects of the COI guideline.  Thanks. Jytdog (talk) 18:54, 5 April 2016 (UTC)