User talk:Supperclubgene
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November 2014
[edit]Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Arizona Organic Act has been reverted.
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Managing a conflict of interest
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Hello, Supperclubgene. 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.
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Please familiarize yourself with relevant content policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, verifiability of information, and autobiographies. Note that Wikipedia's terms of use require disclosure of your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation.
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. DGG ( talk ) 01:50, 28 April 2015 (UTC)
- User:DGG, I pledge that I am not affiliated with any topic I write about. My motivation is to learn. I learn by writing. And it's fun here. Thanks!! Supperclubgene (talk) 19:41, 13 May 2015 (UTC)
- To explain why I asked, I find it difficult to imagine anyone other than a paid press agent creating something like your first version of America’s Infrastructure Alliance (and, after I trimmedthe article, introduced long promotional quotes in the guise of references like you did here or entering the details about the legislative history of uncontroversial water rights legislation bills that Senator Jeff Flake introduced--including some articles praising the bill that barely mentioned him, along with details of his individual speeches in support of various legislation, or bring interested in the article on the lobbying group Associated Equipment Distributors that you are currently drafting in your sandbox[1]. Those are your main contributions. Difficult, but of course not impossible. Good faith contributors should be able to learn not to write like PR people (PR people tend to have done so much work in their own style that they find it difficult to learn how to write for an encycopedia). I await seeing whether you have learned how to fix these articles. DGG ( talk ) 23:38, 13 May 2015 (UTC)
- I'll try to fix them. I wish I was paid for my hobbies, but I'm afraid I'm retired, friend. Supperclubgene (talk) 12:10, 18 May 2015 (UTC)
- Hey DGG, I'm curious - please help me understand. What criteria do you use to pick out Wikipedia writers for scrutiny? I found another trade association that's highly positive and PR/slick looking. Check out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharmaceutical_Research_and_Manufacturers_of_America Those guys are pretty powerful, surely they have MadMen-type folks slicking up their wikipedia page! Supperclubgene (talk) 12:20, 18 May 2015 (UTC)
- I'm always glad to look at another--my guess is we probably have at least a hundred thousand highly promotional articles that need to be rewritten or removed. This is indeed one of them, and remarkably unsubtle. After dealing with it, I will then as usual check other articles by the same editor--but he edits under his own name, and has specified COI in one of the fields he works on. DGG ( talk ) 18:43, 18 May 2015 (UTC)
- To explain why I asked, I find it difficult to imagine anyone other than a paid press agent creating something like your first version of America’s Infrastructure Alliance (and, after I trimmedthe article, introduced long promotional quotes in the guise of references like you did here or entering the details about the legislative history of uncontroversial water rights legislation bills that Senator Jeff Flake introduced--including some articles praising the bill that barely mentioned him, along with details of his individual speeches in support of various legislation, or bring interested in the article on the lobbying group Associated Equipment Distributors that you are currently drafting in your sandbox[1]. Those are your main contributions. Difficult, but of course not impossible. Good faith contributors should be able to learn not to write like PR people (PR people tend to have done so much work in their own style that they find it difficult to learn how to write for an encycopedia). I await seeing whether you have learned how to fix these articles. DGG ( talk ) 23:38, 13 May 2015 (UTC)