User talk:Tbsmo1

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Paid editing in Wikipedia

Hi Tbsmo1. I work on conflict of interest issues here in Wikipedia, along with my regular editing. Your edits to date are on a bit of a run about Today's Business/Koch. I'm giving you notice of our Conflict of Interest guideline and Terms of Use, and will have some comments and requests for you below.

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So...

Thanks for disclosing here and elsewhere that you work for Today's Business and are here on behalf of Koch Modular Processing.

There is much more to say, but there is a more fundamental thing to deal with first -- would you please clarify the relationship between this account, and the ChemEngGuy1 account? Thanks. Jytdog (talk) 00:40, 23 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

copying comment below, left on my talk page in this diff, here. Jytdog (talk) 17:08, 25 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Question regarding an edit to Modular Processing Skid Page ==

You recently removed an entire section from the wikipedia page of content that had been established by someone else over 2 years ago. The content was not put there by this account. Rather I merely changed the reference URL to provide a better usability experience for those who were already going to the same website. Furthermore, the content utilized was from a published article. How does this suddenly become an issue of being an advertisement when I was reworking a pre-existing link for the better? If the content is pre-existing, how is that a COI? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tbsmo1 (talk • contribs) 15:02, 25 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your note above. We need to handle first things first. First we need to clarify if you are operating more than one account. Then you need to understand the paid editing policy. Those are both "ground rules" on which everything you do in WP is based. After we finish going through those things, then we can discuss the content.

So please respond to the question I asked about the other account. Thanks. Jytdog (talk) 17:09, 25 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I apologize for not following the WP guidelines, I wasn't clear on the protocol. My co-worker started a separate account (ChemEngGuy1) that is going to be specifically for working with Koch Modular. This was just an initial account I set up when I was going to be working with Koch Modular. It shouldn't be used for anything related to Koch Modular moving forward. We aren't trying to game the system, it's more of an issue of not thinking that it would be a problem to make an edit to a link when it was pre-existing, since the original pdf it was linking to is going to be taken down due to the slideshare pdf now being used. I'll let my co-worker know of the issues at hand.