User talk:Ksylvester

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Can you straighten out all the renaming and reorganizations related to Intelius

I'm going to assume you'll declare your conflict of interest and contribute to Wikipedia as an employee of Intelius. My apologies if my assumption is wrong.

If you look on the Talk:Intelius page, you'll see that I've been trying to figure out and properly present the state of the corporation over the years. It appears that Intelius became an incubator of sorts, successful divisions spinning off into independent businesses and unsuccessful ones fading away. In the process Intelius was renamed inome, and the Intelius name was given to the public records division. That at least is the best I can make out from he very scarce press.

You should also be aware that Intelius and related articles have regularly been edited in a manner that violates out conflict of interest policy, and that policy has been substantially strengthened over the years to prevent such problems. Because of that, moving the article as you did probably shouldn't have happened in the manner it did. --Ronz (talk) 20:01, 9 July 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for the response. I suggest placing a short disclosure on your user page .

I think you're doing fine with your edits so far, but take some time to review WP:COI.

Can you help shed some light on my comments above regarding Intelius/inome and what's now called Intelius? --Ronz (talk) 19:07, 10 July 2015 (UTC)

Can you please confirm what we've concluded from the poor coverage of the company? It appears inome started doing business again as Intelius sometime last year, and that reports of inome and Intelius being separate companies are incorrect. --Ronz (talk) 15:51, 14 July 2015 (UTC)

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