User talk:Timsgd

Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, Timsgd. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Autoscribe informatics, 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, clients, 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 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. — rsjaffe 🗣️ 17:01, 27 July 2022 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Autoscribe informatics


A tag has been placed on Autoscribe informatics, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, group, product, service, person, or point of view and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and FAQ/Organizations for more information.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the. PRAXIDICAE🌈 17:22, 27 July 2022 (UTC)

July 2022
Hello Timsgd. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, but you have not complied with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. Paid advocacy is a category of conflict of interest (COI) editing that involves being compensated by a person, group, company or organization to use Wikipedia to promote their interests. Undisclosed paid advocacy is prohibited by our policies on neutral point of view and what Wikipedia is not, and is an especially serious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat search-engine optimization.

Paid advocates are very strongly discouraged from direct article editing, and should instead propose changes on the talk page of the article in question if an article exists. If the article does not exist, paid advocates are extremely strongly discouraged from attempting to write an article at all. At best, any proposed article creation should be submitted through the articles for creation process, rather than directly.

Regardless, if you are receiving or expect to receive compensation for your edits, broadly construed, you are  required by the Wikimedia Terms of Use to disclose your employer, client and affiliation. You can post such a mandatory disclosure to your user page at User:Timsgd. The template Paid can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form:. If I am mistaken – you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits – please state that in response to this message. Otherwise, please provide the required disclosure. In either case, do not edit further until you answer this message. PRAXIDICAE🌈 17:22, 27 July 2022 (UTC)


 * Hi PRAXIDICAE,
 * My intention is to add Matrix Gemini LIMS to this page List of LIMS software packages. Autoscribe is a legitimate LIMS vendor, indeed one of the larger global providers. As such I believe this informational to the wikipedia audience and not self-serving. The Autoscribe Informatics page merely describes the Company in the briefest of terms. I did take great care in keeping this informational, not self-serving, and found neutral citations to back up those bare facts. However this does not appear to satisfy you as wikipedia editors. A sad loss of information to the community, but there you are. How many of the other LIMS vendors got onto that page I shall never know. Any advice you can offer much appreciated. Timsgd (talk) 07:57, 28 July 2022 (UTC)

Hello, I'm Deb. I wanted to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions have been undone because they appeared to be promotional. Advertising and using Wikipedia as a "soapbox" are against Wikipedia policy and not permitted; Wikipedia articles should be written objectively, using independent sources, and from a neutral perspective. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you.

If you want to try to recreate the article, please make sure you do so in draft space and that you submit it for review and await the result. Deb (talk) 17:33, 27 July 2022 (UTC)


 * As a LIMS vendor, and a global player, I believe that Autoscribe Informatics's product Matrix Gemini LIMS should be part of the mix in Wikipedia for informational purposes to the wikipedia audience. I have tried to be neutral and factual but that appears not to be enough. Any advise you can offer would be much appreciated. It appears this page in particular is tightly policed! Timsgd (talk) 08:02, 28 July 2022 (UTC)


 * This isn't about what you believe, it's about whether you are capable of conforming to the Neutral point of view policy. Deb (talk) 09:13, 28 July 2022 (UTC)
 * A tad hash in tone but I understand. Thanks. Timsgd (talk) 15:43, 28 July 2022 (UTC)