Abechtolsheim

Recent edits to Andy Bechtolsheim

Hello, and thank you for your recent contributions. I appreciate the effort you made for our project, but unfortunately I had to undo your edits because I believe the article was better before you made that change. Feel free to contact me directly if you have any questions. Thank you! ‑ ‑ Gareth Griffith‑Jones ^{The Welsh Buzzard} ‑ ‑ 14:51, 23 January 2018 (UTC)

Conflict of interest in Wikipedia, username

Hi Abechtolsheim. I work on conflict of interest issues here in Wikipedia, along with regular editing. Your edits to date are about Andy Bechtolsheim, and your username appears to be an abbreviation of that person's name.

With respect to the WP:USERNAME policy, specifically WP:IMPERSONATE, would you please review that section and take one of the actions advised there? If you don't we may need to soft-block this account until the issue can be resolved. Thanks.

If you do happen to be the real world Andy Bechtolsheim, 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. This is a separate but possibly related issue to the one above.

Hello, Abechtolsheim. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. Editing for the purpose of advertising or promotion is not permitted. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:

• avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, company, organization or competitors;
• propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (see the {{request edit}} template);
• disclose your COI when discussing affected articles (see WP:DISCLOSE);
• avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see WP:SPAM);
• do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID). Thank you.

Comments and requests

Wikipedia is a widely-used reference work and managing conflict of interest is essential for ensuring the integrity of Wikipedia and retaining the public's trust in it. As in academia, COI is managed here in two steps - disclosure and a form of peer review. Please note that there is no bar to being part of the Wikipedia community if you want to be involved in articles where you have a conflict of interest; there are just some things we ask you to do (and if you are paid, some things you need to do).

Disclosure is the most important, and first, step. As mentioned above, you are editing here under the name of a real world person, and once we resolve the IMPERSONATE issues, that will be somewhat resolved, but we would still need you to explicitly declare your relationship with Andy Bechtolsheim ‎, if there is one. Would you please disclose any such relationship?

After you respond (and you can just reply below), I can walk you through how the "peer review" part happens and then, if you like, I can provide you with some more general orientation as to how this place works. Please reply here, just below, to keep the discussion in one place. Thanks! Jytdog (talk) 14:53, 23 January 2018 (UTC)

Response by abechtolsheim As you guessed, I am the real Andy Bechtolsheim. I never edited the Wikipedia article about me previously, and my edits were simply to correct a number of inaccuracies in the present article. For example, I am a computer scientist with a degree in computer engineering, not an electrical engineer. I am not born in Fleinhausen (I never heard of this place before and don't even know where it is). I never worked for Intel in my life, and so on.

Now you can say that it is a conflict of interest for me to make factual corrections on an article that is about me, but quite frankly there are numerous errors in this article that need to be corrected.

Abechtolsheim (talk) 06:32, 24 January 2018 (UTC)