User talk:Jhickson

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I noticed that one of the first articles you edited was Jam Filled Toronto, which appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article. Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

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August 2017

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Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at Jam Filled Toronto. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Repeated vandalism can result in the loss of editing privileges. Thank you. KylieTastic (talk) 21:03, 3 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jam Filled Toronto

Are you really asserting that Jam Filled Toronto is not a notable company and should not have an article on Wikipedia at all? —C.Fred (talk) 18:54, 4 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

No, I am asking for it it be changed back to Arc Productions so we can create a new Jam Filled page instead. Arc Productions went bankrupt and did not become Jam Filled. Any reference of Jam Filled should also be removed except for a referral that Jam Filled purchased some of the assets and 3 of the contracts Kody Kapow, Thomas & Friends, and Rusty Rivets were re-negotiated and taken over. - Sorry I have never used Wikipedia before so I do not know all the protocols - I just know that we want to remove our association from Arc Productions Jhickson

Jam Filled purchased the "principal assets", per the cited source. So, I don't see how Jam Filled can be distanced from Arc in the article. There's going to be some cross-mentioning.

That said, I think there's a possibility of splitting the articles, but that definitely needs some wider discussion. —C.Fred (talk) 19:13, 4 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Those articles are not accurate either. Only part of the physical assets were purchased. Anyway, I would rather we change this back to Arc Productions. Like I said we are celebrating Jam Filled's 10th anniversary this year - a company started from scratch - this page makes it seem we just changed our name. Jam Filled Toronto doesn't even exist. We are Jam Filled and out head office is in Ottawa. Jhickson 20:01, 4 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

So what is the name of the company in Toronto, then? Is it Arc Productions? Or is the Toronto office just an office of Jam Filled Entertainment? —C.Fred (talk) 20:05, 4 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Our company is called Jam Filled (we dropped the Entertainment part on January 1st)—Jhickson 20:18, 4 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

And yes, we are just an office of Jam Filled—Jhickson 20:22, 4 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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20:02, 4 August 2017 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Jhickson. 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, and it is important when editing Wikipedia articles that such connections be completely transparent. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. In particular, we ask that you please:

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In addition, you must 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 WP:PAID).

Please take a few moments to read and review Wikipedia's policies regarding conflicts of interest, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, sourcing and autobiographies. Thank you. Melcous (talk) 05:54, 5 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

This is frustrating. Why does someone have to learn the Wikipedia system in order to have invalid content removed from a page talking about a page discussing their company. The information on this page is incorrect - citation needed in the first sentence of the page since last September which does not exist because it is not true. Any edits on this page since the bankruptcy of Arc Productions should be reverted. The only mention of Jam Filled should be they purchased a significant portion of the physical assets through the receiver. Jhickson

Short answer: because it's your company. Longer answer: a number of companies have paid editors to write about their companies—in some cases, overly flowing text with no mention of criticism. As a result, the entire Wikimedia family of projects has put in very strict rules about paid editing. The English Wikipedia has also had rules about editors with conflicts of interest. So, you have to learn the system because of the abusive edits of those before you. To be clear, I'm not automatically saying your edits are abusive; I am saying you need to go through the same processes of declaring your conflict, declaring your paid-editor status (if applicable), and requesting edits on the talk page rather than directly editing articles that all editors with COIs are now subject to. —C.Fred (talk) 14:51, 8 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia: Article Jam Filled Toronto be renamed and moved to Arc Productions

Thank you for putting in this request. Is there anything I need to do to help with this change? —Jhickson 18:22, 8 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]