User talk:Walter-tracker

March 2012
Hello Walter-tracker. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article PDF-XChange, you may have a conflict of interest or close connection to the subject.

All editors are required to comply with Wikipedia's neutral point of view content policy. People who are very close to a subject often have a distorted view of it, which may cause them to inadvertently edit in ways that make the article either too flattering or too disparaging. People with a close connection to a subject are not absolutely prohibited from editing about that subject, but they need to be especially careful about following the reliable sources and writing with as little bias as possible.

If you are very close to a subject, here are some ways you can reduce the risk of problems:


 * Avoid or exercise great caution when editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with.
 * Be cautious about deletion discussions. Everyone is welcome to provide information about independent sources in deletion discussions, but avoid advocating for deletion of articles about your competitors.
 * Avoid linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Spam).
 * Exercise great caution so that you do not accidentally breach Wikipedia's content policies.

Please familiarize yourself with relevant content policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, verifiability of information, and autobiographies.

For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Thank you. —  Mr. Stradivarius ♫ 05:05, 1 March 2012 (UTC)

March 2012
Thanks Mr. Stradivarius. I make no effort to conceal my connection to the page I created (I am an employee of Tracker Software, and one of the C++ developers who works on it). While I may be a commercial employee and I do have an interest in ensuring our information is up to date on wikipedia, I also greatly respect the effort that is wikipedia and on a personal (and professional) level have no interest in spamming or otherwise cluttering the encyclopedia with excessive commercial information. I only wanted to ensure that our information online was in line with what our competitors are placing (e.g. on the PDF software list page). Of course I will not spam, or overstate the capabilities or virtues of our software. It reflects poorly on our company to do so, and it's something I am personally opposed to as well. Thanks for the welcome message!

-Walter