User talk:Splavins

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Hello, Splavins, and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate encyclopedic contributions, but some of your recent contributions seem to be advertising or for promotional purposes. Wikipedia does not allow advertising. For more information on this, please see: If you still have questions, there is a new contributors' help page, or you can. You may also find the following pages useful for a general introduction to Wikipedia: I hope you enjoy editing Wikipedia! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically produce your name and the date. Feel free to write a note on the bottom of my talk page if you want to get in touch with me. Again, welcome! Drmies (talk) 00:50, 28 June 2017 (UTC)
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Ways to improve David Van Wie
Hi, I'm Nick Moyes. Splavins, thanks for creating David Van Wie!

I've just tagged the page, using our page curation tools, as having some issues to fix. Please remove all the promotional waffle and pointless references, duplicated references and please clearly demonstrate why Van Wie meets WP:NOTABILITY and use reliable third party sources to do so. If it cannot, this article may be proposed for deletion. I suggest you expand the article on Intertrust with content from this one, and maybe a redirect would be an alternative to deletion. None of the references ostensibly supporting statements about awards mention either the man or the company, so I can't see why they are in there. This seems a wholly promotional article. Please would you indicate on your talk page whether you are receiving payment for creating this article? See WP:PAID. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.

The tags can be removed by you or another editor once the issues they mention are addressed. If you have questions, you can leave a comment on my talk page. Or, for more editing help, talk to the volunteers at the Teahouse.

Nick Moyes (talk) 02:03, 28 June 2017 (UTC)
 * If you are by any chance connected to the subject somehow, it's important to note WP:Paid is a Terms of Use policy that cannot be negotiated. Your page is currently highly promotional either focusing in a personal website-like appearance and the sources, wherever published, are still only announcements, notices or similar. SwisterTwister   talk  02:48, 28 June 2017 (UTC)

Splavins, please stop reinserting the same puffed-up text. Encyclopedic articles need to be terse, factual, and based on reliable and independent sources. What the page most needs is references supporting his career specifically. (This is also the main way in which Wikipedia assesses notability.) In particular, I went through the citations about the Apple lawsuit and not a mention of his name. And the Sococo website (which was agonizing to load) doesn't list him. Where is his current executive profile, and can you add news sources specifically about him? I am about to search again, having found and used Bloomberg, which is however out of date. Yngvadottir (talk) 05:13, 28 June 2017 (UTC)

July 2017
Hello, I noticed that you may have recently made edits to David Van Wie while logged out. Making edits while logged out reveals your IP address, which may allow others to determine your location and identity. Wikipedia's policy on multiple accounts usually does not allow the use of both an account and an IP address by the same person in the same setting. If this was not your intention, please remember to log in when editing. Thank you. —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 21:31, 3 July 2017 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, Splavins. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places, or things you have written about in the article David Van Wie, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic, and it is important when editing Wikipedia articles that such connections be completely transparent. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. In particular, we ask that you please:


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Please take a few moments to read and review Wikipedia's policies regarding conflicts of interest, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, sourcing and autobiographies. Thank you. —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 21:32, 3 July 2017 (UTC)

July 2017
Hello, I noticed that you may have recently made edits while logged out. Making edits while logged out reveals your IP address, which may allow others to determine your location and identity. Wikipedia's policy on multiple accounts usually does not allow the use of both an account and an IP address by the same person in the same setting. If this was not your intention, please remember to log in when editing. Thank you. Drmies (talk) 22:57, 3 July 2017 (UTC)
 * To put it another way, you appear to be socking and edit warring at the same time, all the while promoting the subject of that article. I'm this close to blocking you indefinitely and locking those articles. Drmies (talk) 22:58, 3 July 2017 (UTC)

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing because it appears that you are not here to build an encyclopedia. If you think there are good reasons why you should be unblocked, you may request an unblock by first reading the guide to appealing blocks, then adding the following text to the bottom of your talk page:. Drmies (talk) 23:07, 3 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Don't say I didn't warn you. Drmies (talk) 23:07, 3 July 2017 (UTC)


 * This unlikely story doesn't really address "process", nor do I believe that a social media professional would think we were simply a directory instead of a collaborative encyclopedia. There's plenty of talk page messages here; surely not all of the other four editors are trolls. Editor could have clicked on any of these links. I did, by the way, click on those article links, and have pruned those promotional articles quite a bit. Drmies (talk) 12:10, 5 July 2017 (UTC)

--UTRSBot (talk) 01:03, 13 July 2017 (UTC)