User talk:Richard heyes

Hi. I'm the author of RGraph - the JavaScript charting library that can be used on websites.

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Hello, Richard heyes, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited was RGraph, which 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. Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

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Hi again Richard heyes. I see you've declared your conflict of interest on your user page. For what it's worth, you can refer to yourself in the first person on your user page, if you're the Richard Heyes who did all of those things. Actually, referring to yourself in the third person might be confuse others a bit and that might led some into mistaking your user page as an attempt to create a Wikipedia article about "Richard Heyes". One other thing is that you can use your real name as your Wikipedia username if you want, just be aware of WP:REALWORLD and WP:REALNAME. Anything you post anywhere on Wikipedia will be visible to anyone anywhere in the world the instant you click "Publish changes" and what you reveal about yourself is up to you, but once it's been released it's kind of hard to remove all trace of it. You also can post bits about yourself on your user page as long as you don't run afoul of WP:UPNO. -- Marchjuly (talk) 22:28, 30 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

References needed!

You have added content to RGraph without references. Even though you (claim to have) created RGraph, content requires references. And you should declare COI on your User page. David notMD (talk) 15:43, 30 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

December 2019

As previously advised, your edits, such as the edit you made to RGraph, give the impression you have a financial stake in promoting a topic, but you have not complied with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. You were asked to cease editing until you responded by either stating that you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits, or by complying with the mandatory requirements under the Wikimedia Terms of Use that you disclose your employer, client and affiliation. Again, you can post such a disclosure on your user page at User:Richard heyes, and the template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Richard heyes|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}. Please respond before making any other edits to Wikipedia. Please be clear. With the exception of reverting indisputable WP:VANDALISM, you are not allowed to directly edit this article. Any and all edits you desire must be proposed by you on the article's talk page. This information is included in the wikilink on PAID, including the technical information. John from Idegon (talk) 22:39, 30 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hi John, I'm the author of RGraph - but the software is free to use under the MIT open source license - anyone can use it for any purpose. So does this still count as a conflict of interest? I've taken anything I think would count as promotional off the page. Richard heyes (talk) 23:24, 30 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Be clearer. Do you in any way benefit financially from RGraph? Does the existence of this article increase your business reputation? Minimally, you have a conflict of interest. David notMD (talk) 03:36, 31 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

OK, how about now? It's not a business, when I initially started RGraph that was certainly the intention. though poor SEO performance has eliminated that idea! It's currently MIT licensed - and therefore entirely free.

Can I remove the warning at the top of the RGraph page?

So should I go ahead and change it?

No you shouldn't. You should never ever directly edit the article in question at all. You are a WP:PAID editor. And you're demonstrating why PAID editors must be restricted. Make an edit request on the article's talk page. If it's to remove the COI tag, it isn't going to happen. John from Idegon (talk) 14:58, 6 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Why on earth not? There's a Highcharts page - that's obviously commercial. There's a WinSCP page too and that's got the same model as RGraph (ie free and accepts donations).