User talk:Melicoops

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December 2019

You may have an interest to post here: Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/BostonMama. Tiderolls 14:55, 18 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

BostonMama helped me to post content, and when it was removed, I added the content back. I write blogs for the telecommunications sector of which Telecom Expense Management (TEM) is a major subject. I noticed that there was not much information on this subject in Wikipedia and added content. This is not spammy content and all I did was link the content back to the blog that I wrote. There are also other commercial cites in the Expense Management page, namely Cimpl and Radius Point that link to their websites and blatantly add links to sell their product. So if my content is going to be removed, then you need to also remove other content that is definitely commercial selling! Thank you. Melicoops (talk) 15:24, 18 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I find your explanation regarding the content plausible. I don't think the content is encyclopedic and I believe the source for the content would be found lacking if you asked more experienced editors. You should also see WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS. That being said, I probably will check the articles you mention. Tiderolls 15:26, 18 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Managing a conflict of interest

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Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 18:03, 18 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Warning: Using Wikipedia for promotional purposes

Hi Melicoops,

Thank you for joining Wikipedia.

Independently of how you would phrase it, your edits have been promotional in nature. Wikipedia does not allow such advertising.

Normally, users who operate promotion-only accounts are blocked from editing indefinitely, sometimes without prior warning. See Wikipedia:Blocking_policy#Disruption-only for the community's opinion about this type of behavior. However, you seem to be responsive and able to change your behavior without such enforcement.

If you have found promotional content added by other users, feel free to point out specific examples below. Never can such content be used to justify the addition of new similar text.

You are welcome to contribute in ways that are unrelated to yourself, family, friends, clients, employers, or your financial and other relationships. The community portal and the Wikipedia Adventure provide some ideas for doing so.

Best regards
~ ToBeFree (talk) 18:17, 18 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! I will post content within the rules in future!

There are 2 other links that are promotional on this page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expense_management, they both link to Company websites and have promotional text on the pages.

1. Lebrun. Caroline. Working Towards the Gold Medal: Telecom Expense Management vs Technology Expense Management. http://blog.cimpl.com/working-towards-the-gold-medal-telecom-expense-management-vs-technology-expense-management (2016-08-26)

2. Chrostowski, Savanna (2018-01-05). "How Do you Manage Telecom Expense?". RadiusPoint. Retrieved 2019-01-22.

Melicoops (talk) 19:34, 18 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much, Melicoops, for your understanding and for pointing out this problem. I have now removed these two references, as a minimal first measure (Special:Diff/931441242).

The article definitely needs more improvement and possibly a complete rewrite, but I'm sure that someone uninvolved will do this sooner or later. There is no deadline, and the community is pretty good at fixing such issues in the long term.

Best regards
~ ToBeFree (talk) 22:55, 18 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]