User talk:Wsoteros

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Hello, Wsoteros, and welcome to Wikipedia!&#32;Thank you for your contributions.

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article.&#32;Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place  before the question. Again, welcome! 🇺🇦 Fiddle Timtrent  Faddle Talk to me 🇺🇦 17:38, 13 October 2022 (UTC)

October 2022
Hello Wsoteros. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to TrueNAS, 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:Wsoteros. 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. 🇺🇦 Fiddle Timtrent  Faddle Talk to me 🇺🇦 18:10, 13 October 2022 (UTC)


 * Hello Tim!
 * I am employed by iXsystems, the parent company of the TrueNAS brand.
 * I am not however portraying TrueNAS with facts that may sway someones decision to use the software. Nor do I make edits that violate a neutral point of view. My role here is to update the wiki with relevant information and maintain the page with updates that come out as they roll out. For example, my most recent update with the SCALE table is being added because that is the latest software release for that Release Train and is missing from the wiki page.
 * I am employed by iX and paid to make updates as needed. HOWEVER, I am NOT paid to relay TrueNAS is a good light, just to relay TrueNAS as facts. For example, we still have the bit about FreeNAS Corrall, which for our company was a big failure. We keep this information because our users need to know this information. All information that is edited is public information that can be found in our documentation and not a conflict of information.
 * Please let me know if there are any questions. Wsoteros (talk) 18:45, 13 October 2022 (UTC)
 * I have added the paid disclaimer to my page.
 * Please let me know if there is anything else that needs to be added. Wsoteros (talk) 18:48, 13 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your declaration. Please note that editing an article in mainspace by those paid to do so is deprecated. While I doubt that Nadine can object to pure factual edits, you might be better to deploy requested edit on the article's talk page.
 * If you have not done so already please deploy Connected contributor (paid) on all; articles with information relevant to your employer that you have edited already, adding the parameter:
 * U1-EH=yes
 * You are at liberty to edit articles unrelated to your employment 🇺🇦 Fiddle Timtrent  Faddle Talk to me 🇺🇦 19:09, 13 October 2022 (UTC)
 * The second template is for article talk pages. Apologies for ambiguity 🇺🇦 Fiddle Timtrent  Faddle Talk to me 🇺🇦 19:13, 13 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the heads up, Tim.
 * From now on, I will suggest edits rather than just make them. Is there a time frame (such as 30 days) where if they do not get implemented I can go ahead and approve them myself? The information that I will be adding will be on a monthly basis when we have a new releases to our software.
 * Best regards and thanks for the help,
 * Will Wsoteros (talk) 17:27, 14 October 2022 (UTC)

TrueNAS
Hello. I've removed quite a bit of unsourced and otherwise non-encyclopedic content from the TrueNAS article. I would suggest reading through Plain and simple conflict of interest guide and other relevant information pages, and using the edit request process going forward instead of editing the article directly. Taavi (talk!) 08:35, 10 August 2023 (UTC)


 * Happy to do so and thanks for the contributions.
 * I have requested muiltiple edit requests before however nobody has added them. Is there a time frame (such as 30 days) where if they do not get implemented I can go ahead and approve them myself?T he information that I will be adding will be on a monthly basis when we have a new releases to our software just information, no marketing fluff that would sway a users opinion on the software.
 * Best, Wsoteros (talk) 16:05, 22 August 2023 (UTC)
 * How is the version table considered "non-encyclopedic" and unsourced?
 * Is it considered unsourced because it was linked to iXsystems documentation? I am not sure who else would source that information since they are the ones that create the software... Wsoteros (talk) 19:23, 25 August 2023 (UTC)

Concern regarding Draft:TrueNAS SCALE Changes
Hello, Wsoteros. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:TrueNAS SCALE Changes, a page you created, has not been edited in at least 5 months. Drafts that have not been edited for six months may be deleted, so if you wish to retain the page, please edit it again&#32;or request that it be moved to your userspace.

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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 13:06, 10 January 2024 (UTC)