User talk:Waxpancake

please see list of confidence tricks talk page--Anna Frodesiak (talk) 17:13, 30 January 2009 (UTC)

You're almost 4 years overdue for a welcome template! (criminy) -- Quiddity (talk) 19:44, 30 January 2009 (UTC)

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Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, Waxpancake. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the page XOXO (festival), 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 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 WP: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. Graywalls (talk) 17:37, 25 February 2021 (UTC)

Notice of Conflict of interest noticeboard discussion
There is currently a discussion at Conflict of interest/Noticeboard regarding a possible conflict of interest incident with which you may be involved. Thank you. You've been extensively editing on the conference/festival that you host for a period of time. I believe that it is not exactly encyclopedic and I have posted it to COI noticeboard for others to evaluate possible COI and make any necessary adjustments Graywalls (talk) 21:00, 26 February 2021 (UTC)

February 2021
Hello Waxpancake. 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:Waxpancake. 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. Possibly (talk) 23:50, 26 February 2021 (UTC)

Responding to Conflict of Interest Notice, April 2021
Hi, Graywalls and Possibly! So sorry about the slow response, I didn’t see any of these notifications because I had an ancient inactive email address on file. I'll try to address all your notices/questions in this new subsection, and I'll post a separate response to the XOXO Festival Talk page. I hope I'm doing this right, but please let me know if there's anything I can do better.

Nobody has ever paid me directly or indirectly to edit Wikipedia, but obviously, my affiliation with XOXO is a conflict of interest, which I’ve disclosed on my Talk page, explicitly saying I contribute to that entry, as well as the Andy McMillan article, which I created in 2015.

To the best of my recollection, I’ve only made two changes to my own Wikipedia page: in 2010, renaming the article to remove the “(Blogger)” in the title, since that wasn’t actually my career or what I was known for, and updating the photo in 2013 to a more recent public domain-licensed photo.

I had no involvement in creating the XOXO article on Wikipedia, but typically update it once a year after the event ends with the list of speakers and performers who were involved, as well any relevant media citations to back it up, to supplement information added by other editors. I've always limited edits strictly to factual information about the event.

As a long-time supporter and fan of Wikipedia, my primary interest in editing these entries is in making Wikipedia better. When someone goes looking for information about XOXO on Wikipedia, it does a disservice to readers to fail to provide basic information about the event, such as dates, locations, speakers, and media coverage, positive or negative.

I’ve always worked hard to maintain NPOV and contribute factual sourced information for my edits, and I thought the disclosure on my Talk page was sufficient for the types of edits I was making, but I now understand that I was mistaken. I now know that the best and safest course of action would have been to propose these changes in the Talk page, and let unaffiliated editors decide if, when, and how to make those edits. I'm sorry for the misunderstanding.

To avoid any potential future conflicts, I’m no longer going to edit entries I'm affiliated with, except in the case of uncontroversial edits such as removing vandalism, repairing broken links, or fixing typos, pursuant to that policy.

I hope that resolves these issues, but please let me know if there’s anything more I can do. Thanks! --Waxpancake (talk) 17:04, 1 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Unless we're talking about public relations / marketing companies hired to edit articles, people are usually not paid for editing Wikipedia on an itemized basis and there's nothing in the rules that say compensation must be on an itemized basis for it to constitute paid editing. In this case, from your own self-disclosure, you're one of the organizers of XOXO. Graywalls (talk) 20:27, 1 April 2021 (UTC)