User talk:Alexandra Goncharik/Archives/Archive 1

Comindware Tracker

Thanks for this new article :). Ironholds (talk) 14:28, 24 May 2012 (UTC)

Editing

Hi! I gather that you may have been doing some editing recently where you have a conflict of interest. Generally, Wikipedia strongly discourages people from doing so, especially where the editing relates to advocacy. If you can, it would work well if you were to follow current best practise, which is to recommend changes on the talk pages of the articles concerned rather than make them yourself. But if this isn't possible, it would be great if you were to acknowledge when you have a conflict of interest on the talk pages - that way we know that everything is upfront and transparent, which helps a lot. If you would like to know more, the Wikipedia:Plain and simple conflict of interest guide is a really good resource that may assist. - Bilby (talk) 22:35, 9 January 2014 (UTC)

Dear Bilby, I understand your concern. My contributions include articles about living people, operating companies and recurring events. However, I truly believe that I don't have a conflict of interest, as I make my edits putting the Wikipedia aims in the first place. You can review my edits and make sure that every time I do a great work of finding sufficient press coverage for almost every fact, which I add here. I have been writing and editing texts for Wikipedia since 2008, so I had a lot of time to study its policies, including notability and neutrality guidelines. I really value my freedom and my right to contribute the project directly, that is why I do my best in pushing my external interests and relationships to the wayside if they can undermine my role as a Wikipedian. In any case, assuming that you may have some specific comments to my texts, I'm open for the discussion. I prefer to be evaluated by the quality of my personal contributions, not by other factors. I want you to know that I'm with you in your efforts to make Wikipedia better. — Alexandra Goncharik ^-sms- 11:59, 11 January 2014 (UTC)

Under the existing guidelines, it does appear that you have a conflict of interest with some of the articles you have worked on. That said, having a COI doesn't mean that edits are necessarily bad - just that the COI exists. There have been editors who have edited well in spite of the conflicts of interest, and I'm not trying to say that you have, or have not, edited with sufficient care. My concern is that the current best practice is for users to not edit directly, or to declare that they have a COI - the current wording of the guideline is "very strongly discouraged from editing", which technically provides some leeway, but you may wish to consider declaring your affiliations as part of editing. The community appears to be strengthening their stance on this issue, so it is something to keep in mind. - Bilby (talk) 23:03, 11 January 2014 (UTC)

Congratulations on your new article.

Hello Alexandra, congratulations on your newly article about Inpex, invention trade show. Nice work there. I was surfing around for trade shows on wikipedia when I came across your newly created page. As I am a new editor here, so I was wondering you might help me here. I am also planning to create a new page by myself but am facing some problems with citations. How did you searched for the citations for the page? I mean exactly what was your search query for the trade show page and on which platform. Hope you could help me out. Regards Europa man (talk) 15:54, 11 January 2014 (UTC)

Hello Europa man, thank you for your congratulations and feedback. I will be glad to share my experience. Usually I use the following formulas for my search queries creating new articles for Wikipedia:

1. https://news.google.com/ and http://books.google.com/ is the best way to find some links to reliable and independent secondary sources (respected news agencies and published books). I used the term "INPEX invention" here.

2. http://google.com/ − I exclude user-generated and promotional content from my queries:

INPEX invention -inpex.com -inventhelp.com -prweb -linkedin.com -facebook.com -wordpress.com -blogspot.com -youtube.com -vimeo.com -plus.google.com -twitter.com -prlog

You can find more info about search operators here. I hope my tips will be useful. —Alexandra Goncharik ^-sms- 17:35, 11 January 2014 (UTC)

January 2014

Hello, Alexandra Goncharik. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, 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 ensuring their edits are verified by 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 Wikipedia: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. —Unforgettableid (talk) 08:02, 24 January 2014 (UTC)

Hello, I'm Unforgettableid. I wanted to let you know that I added some article maintenance tags to TreeRing because it appeared to be promotional. Advertising and using Wikipedia as a "soapbox" are against Wikipedia policy and not permitted. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you. —Unforgettableid (talk) 08:03, 24 January 2014 (UTC)

Hello, Unforgettableid. It seems to me you were biased in your evaluation of my articles (and you definitely was not assuming good faith). I doubt that you have read my articles and checked the links mentioned in the reference sections before to mark all these pages for speedy deletion. The mere fact that a company, organization, or product is an article's subject does not, on its own, qualify that article for speedy deletion. Nor does this criterion apply where substantial encyclopedic content would remain after removing the promotional material. Given your destructive mood, I do not think our communication will be productive. So I will solve all these issues with my articles by asking for independent advice. Of course, I will take into account all your templates and warmings added to my pages. I don't agree with most of them, but I would like to have second opinion to be absolutely sure that all goes in compliance with the Wikipedia policies. --Alexandra Goncharik ^-sms- 11:23, 24 January 2014 (UTC)

You have been accused of undisclosed paid editing

Hi! You have been accused of undisclosed paid editing. In other words, of accepting money to edit Wikipedia without telling us that you have done so. Please see the accusation at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Comindware Tracker. Thank you! —Unforgettableid (talk) 02:01, 3 February 2014 (UTC)

As a creator and a main contributer to this article I admit that I definitely had a conflict of interest while editing this page. However I was not payed for it (I created the article at the request of my former colleague a couple of years ago having a poor understanding of the principles of Wikipedia at that time). I should not have to agree to this proposal, and I regret it. I agree that this article has multiple issues and is written as promotional one. So I don't contest this nomination.

Also I want to emphasize that paid editing is not prohibited in Wikipedia per se, although it is a burning question as it often leads to conflict of interest, paid advocacy and other issues that eventually turn into a violation of the Wikipedia's rules. I do not want to raise another discussions on this topic. I just want to explain once again that I have done my best in pushing my external interests and relationships to the wayside if they can undermine my role as a Wikipedian. All my edits are are based on serious work with independent sources now.

Moreover, I would like to draw everybody's attention to the following warning on the page Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard: "The COI guideline does not absolutely prohibit people with a connection to a subject from editing articles on that subject. Editors who have such a connection can still comply with the COI guideline by discussing proposed article changes first, or by making uncontroversial edits. Be careful not to out other editors. Wikipedia's policy against harassment takes precedence over the COI guideline". --Alexandra Goncharik ^-sms- 12:35, 3 February 2014 (UTC)

February 2014

Please do not add promotional material to Wikipedia, as you did to SecureAuth. While objective prose about beliefs, products or services is acceptable, Wikipedia is not intended to be a vehicle for soapboxing, advertising or promotion. Please see the SecureAuth article's history for information on why I tagged the article with {{news release}} and {{notability}}. Cheers! —Unforgettableid (talk) 06:28, 12 February 2014 (UTC)

Unforgettableid, I have corrected the article (diff). Please see Talk:SecureAuth. I ask you to remove the tag or describe any additional changes required (or make these edits by yourself). --Alexandra Goncharik ^-sms- 22:45, 12 February 2014 (UTC)