User talk:Vitrealisstammer

Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, Vitrealisstammer. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Steve Blank, 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:


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Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Drmies (talk) 17:25, 4 September 2021 (UTC)


 * Hi Drmies, I see that you removed some of the content I added to the Steve Blank page. I think I understand part of what you removed and why but have questions about some of it. First off, I do not have any conflict of interest to manage. I am a student and have been learning about the ideas developed by Mr Blank and was surprised that they weren't covered in detail here. I am working on my editor skills! You removed mentions of some books under the Biography section and left others. I think you are saying that the book information needs a secondary source? If that is the case, I'll set out to find those. Thank you for your help, I am excited to continue honing my editing! Vitrealisstammer (talk) 20:10, 9 September 2021 (UTC)
 * OK--but the thing is, edits like this one are just really very promotional. "Father of modern entrepreneurship"--I mean, I can imagine Henry Ford or whatever being called that, but this guy, it's going to need a lot more than one website. And I don't know if you added all those commencement speeches, but that's not encyclopedic content. Yes, books and everything else really needs secondary sources, and again I don't know if you added this as a source, but it is not an acceptable source--it's an unreliable source at best, but really it's just another spam link. And I see that editors before me have thought this article was written by paid contributors--I certainly hope you are being honest here. Thanks, Drmies (talk) 01:34, 10 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Hi again Drmies, Thank you for the note on the book sourcing, I believe I have some that will satisfy that. I had looked at Steve Jobs and saw commencement speeches included and the articles I used were from NPR, Inc.com and Entrepreneur so I am not sure I understand they would not be encyclopedic content. I don't know about the previous editors you mentioned. Again, I appreciate your help. There are other pages I started to work on and want to be more clear on what is considered acceptable and not. Vitrealisstammer (talk) 16:51, 10 September 2021 (UTC)
 * OK it's pretty clear that Steve Jobs does not have a set of "Jobs did the commencement speech at University X" entries. One event is mentioned because there was a protest against e-pollution, and another is mentioned in the context of his education. Drmies (talk) 17:47, 10 September 2021 (UTC)