David Smith 111

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I have an edit, entitled Exposure Fee, on the Interactive Brokers page. It keeps getting deleted, despite being referenced, by the Interactive Brokers PR team. What can be done to prevent deletion of certain sections? Please let me know what actions can be taken to ensure the post remains active.

David Smith 111 (talk) 19:51, 10 January 2018 (UTC)

Wikipedia content should be a summary of what reliable secondary sources have reported about the subject. The PR team clearly is not a secondary source on its own company. If that's a notable aspect of the company, someone other than their own PR department will have reported on it. You may also want to take a look at the guideline on conflicts of interests; Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not free ad space. Huon (talk) 20:04, 10 January 2018 (UTC)

Conflict of interest in Wikipedia

Hi David Smith 111. I work on conflict of interest issues here in Wikipedia along with my regular editing. Your edits to date are all about Interactive Brokers, and your note above makes it appear that you are working with their PR team. 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.

Hello, David Smith 111. 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).

Also please note that editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. 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. While I am not asking you to disclose your identity (anonymity is strictly protecting by our WP:OUTING policy) would you please disclose if you have some connection with Interactive Brokers, directly or through a third party (e.g. a PR agency or the like)? You can answer how ever you wish (giving personally identifying information or not), but if there is a connection, please disclose it. 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) 20:43, 10 January 2018 (UTC)

Please reply here. Jytdog (talk) 01:38, 14 January 2018 (UTC)

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PLease don't write things like this, where you added "whose PR department writes this page and edits it every day, explaining the exclamation points at the top of the page." to Wikipedia. Jytdog (talk) 01:39, 14 January 2018 (UTC)

January 2018

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing because it appears that you are not here to build an encyclopedia.

If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please read the guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text below the block notice on your talk page: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}.  Alex Shih (talk) 06:23, 14 January 2018 (UTC)

This blocked user is asking that their block be reviewed on the Unblock Ticket Request System:

David Smith 111 (block log • active blocks • global blocks • autoblocks • contribs • deleted contribs • abuse filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

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UTRS appeal #20342 was submitted on Jan 16, 2018 18:22:16. This review is now closed.

--UTRSBot (talk) 18:22, 16 January 2018 (UTC)