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Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or , and a volunteer should respond shortly. Again, welcome! –MJL ‐Talk‐^☖ 20:03, 25 July 2019 (UTC)

Notice of Conflict of interest noticeboard discussion

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard regarding a possible conflict of interest incident with which you may be involved. Thank you. PK650 (talk) 00:58, 9 January 2020 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Brianharper89. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the page Eurasia Group, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. 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, colleagues, company, organization or competitors;
• propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the {{request edit}} template);
• disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see Wikipedia:Conflict of interest#How to disclose a COI);
• 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 are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. MarioGom (talk) 01:05, 9 January 2020 (UTC)

Notice of Conflict of interest noticeboard discussion

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard regarding a possible conflict of interest incident with which you may be involved. Thank you. WhinyTheYounger (talk) 00:34, 14 June 2020 (UTC)

EG & Wikipedia going forward

Hi! I really appreciate you reaching out and taking steps to fix the problem. The measures taken on EG-related pages are nothing personal, of course, and it is totally understandable that your company wants to make sure information about it is accurate/timely. I'm super willing to help you through that process going forward. Note that I am not an administrator, but you can always contact one if you have questions/concerns about any of the things I outline below based on my reading of Wikipedia policy and guidelines, which I encourage you read at Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations.

One thing up front to note is that COI is a broad term that includes paid editing (see WP:PAY), which has a bit more stringent guidelines than, say, someone's relative editing their page. A paid editor is expected to be very forthcoming with their status as such, and WP:COIPAYDISCLOSE outlines some of the ways that is done, including the template disclosure on your user page. I would recommend noting on your user page(s) whether or not you/your colleagues intend to use your account(s) solely for EG-related things, or if you might use it in a personal manner as well (i.e. editing anything else you feel like as a volunteer). If the latter, then as the COIPAYDISCLOSE page notes, you will want to keep a "clearly visible list on your user page of your paid contributions", namely, everything but the EG-unrelated/volunteer edits.

The way to interact with EG-related articles (including things about Bremmer, his books/theories, and arguably your company's direct competitors) is to use Template:Request edit on the relevant talk page. Whenever you do so, feel free to ping me and I will be willing to look into it. An example of how this process works can be seen at Talk:Arabella Advisors, where a PR firm discloses their paid editing status and lists four changes they want to see with justifications. Another editor went through and accepted some requests and rejected others. Clearly, the person at that firm has been doing this for a while and has a pretty good handle on the ins and outs of Wikipedia policies and jargon; don't feel like you need to as well from the get-go. Also, no editor is omniscient, so if you disagree in the future with a decision made by another editor or myself, you can always ask another, uninvolved editor or administrator be consulted.

On a final note, one of the most common issues with companies' pages is an over-reliance on primary sources, which the Wikipedia community tends to eschew in favor of non-primary sources (see WP:PSTS), to fill in details that are not inherently notable. Not every individual product or board member is inherently worth noting in the article; most generally are not, I'd argue. Avoid primary sources whenever you can (although they're not prohibited, especially for more factual information, like XYZ is our address, we were founded in this year, and so on). Overall there are a lot of kind of dizzying and byzantine things to keep track of, so if you have any questions about any of it all, feel free to reach out and ask; I'm happy to clarify to the best of my ability. Thanks again for taking steps to address the COI/PAID issues! WhinyTheYounger (talk) 00:43, 30 June 2020 (UTC)

@WhinyTheYounger: Thanks so much for this detailed and helpful response; I'm really grateful to you for taking the time. Again, there was no malicious intent on our part, so I appreciate your patience as we try to address the issues at hand. I now have a COI disclaimer in my profile and will add additional information; I don't have active plans to regularly edit Wikipedia articles, though I did make some changes to an unrelated article I saw a few years ago. I can inform my two colleagues that they must add the disclaimer as well. As I might have mentioned, I don't know the other names that were listed as being in violation of Wikipedia's policies and don't believe they are currently associated with our company. Beyond that, it sounds like our best next step will be to post any suggested edits on the talk pages for Eurasia Group and Ian Bremmer. Thank you again for your patience; as you said, Wikipedia can feel a bit dizzying, and my colleagues and I are just doing our best to navigate it all.Brianharper89 (talk) 13:44, 30 June 2020 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:History

Hello, Brianharper89. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "History".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been deleted. If you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion by following the instructions at this link. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 02:04, 3 January 2021 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:GZERO Media

Hello, Brianharper89. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "GZERO Media".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been deleted. If you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion by following the instructions at this link. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 21:23, 15 January 2021 (UTC)