User talk:Mhanga parto

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Conflict of interest in Wikipedia

Hi Numberry I work on conflict of interest issues here in Wikipedia. Your edits to date are on a bit of a run about Abdulrhman Elnekiti (who seems to have a separate account here at User:Abdulrhman Elnekiti) and numberry.com. 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, Numberry. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you have an external relationship with some of the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest or close connection to the subject.

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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 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 out WP:OUTING policy) would you please disclose if you have some connection with Abdulrhman Elnekiti and/or numberry.com? You can answer how ever you wish (giving personally identifying information or not), but if there is a connection, with please disclose it. After you respond (and you can just reply below), perhaps we can talk a bit about editing Wikipedia, to give you some more orientation to how this place works. Thanks!

You can reply here - I am watching this page. Once you do, we can take it from there. Thanks in advance for talking! Jytdog (talk) 16:45, 29 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Please reply here. Thanks. Jytdog (talk) 20:16, 29 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, i have a connection to numberry.com, i am the owner of both the account and the website.

I'm sorry about the coi, because i did not read the terms & policies.

Is it fine to discuss the subject ?Mhanga parto (talk) 22:19, 30 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for replying and for disclosing your conflict of interest here. In Wikipedia, that disclosure should also go on the relevant article Talk pages (which I already did for you), and on your user page (which is here: User:Mhanga parto). Something simple like "I own the website, Numberry, which is offfering soiftware called "Artistic Cellular Automata" would be great. Would you please take care of that?

The peer review" piece may seem a bit strange to you at first, but if you think about it, it will make sense. In Wikipedia, editors can immediately publish their work, with no intervening publisher or standard peer review -- you can just create an article, click save, and viola there is a new article, and you can go into any article, make changes, click save, and done. No intermediary. What we ask editors who have a COI to do, is a) if you create an article, submit it through the WP:AFC process so it can be reviewed before it publishes. b) And if you want to change content in an existing article on a topic where you have a COI, we ask you to propose content on the Talk page for others to review and implement before it goes live, instead of doing it directly yourself. You can make the edit request easily - and provide notice to the community of your request - by using the "edit request" function as described in the conflict of interest guideline. I made that easy for you by adding a section to the beige box at the top of the Talk page at Talk:xxxxxx - there is a link at "click here" in that section -- if you click that, the Wikipedia software will automatically format a section in which you can make your request.

Will you please make the COI disclosure on your user page, and agree to follow the peer review processes? Let me know. Thanks. Jytdog (talk) 00:47, 31 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for helping me admins, i have followed the steps and created a new section on the talk page where almost everything is ::::written, i will try to update it to make it looks more easier... The problem is, there is open possibilities when it is related to ::::Mathematics and Cellular Automata. Once thanks. I just want to ask, my original username i forgot the password and i did not ::::write the email, and now i wrote the section under this name, is there a chance to close that account ? or i can just rename this ::::account to something similar e,g. abdulrhman-elnekiti instead of abdulrhman elnekiti

First, let me make sure you know that I am not an admin; I am just an experienced user. That said...

Thanks that was great what you did, with the disclosure and posting edit request! Thanks for complying with the conflict of interest guideline.

With regard to your old account, User:Abdulrhman Elnekiti - if you have no recovery email and have lost the password, that account is dead. Sorry about that. What you can do, is go into your preferences (there is a link at the top of the page, near the right). In the first page of preferences, if you scroll down, you will see an area about signatures, with a blank box with the word "Signature" next to it. If you type Abdulrhman Elnekiti into the box (there is a checkbox below that, where it says " Treat the above as wiki markup" - do not check that box) and save, you will see that your signature on talk pages will change so that it says "Abdulrhman Elnekiti" instead of "Mhanga parto". That is the most simple solution. Jytdog (talk) 19:23, 31 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Username issue

Welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your username, "Numberry", may not comply with our username policy. Please note that you may not use a username that represents the name of a company, group, organization, product, or website. Examples of usernames that are not allowed include "XYZ Company", "MyWidgetsUSA.com", and "Trammel Museum of Art". However, you are invited to use a username that contains such a name if it identifies you personally, such as "Mark at WidgetsUSA", "Jack Smith at the XY Foundation", and "WidgetFan87".

Please also note that Wikipedia does not allow accounts to be shared by multiple people, and that you may not advocate for or promote any company, group, organization, product, or website, regardless of your username. Moreover, I recommend that you read our conflict of interest guideline. If you are a single individual and are willing to contribute to Wikipedia in an unbiased manner, please create a new account or request a change of username, by completing this form, that complies with our username policy. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. Thank you. Jytdog (talk) 16:45, 29 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks i have just changed the username.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Mhanga parto (talk • contribs) 19:16, 29 August 2015‎ (UTC)[reply]

Edit war warning

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Elementary cellular automaton and Cellular automaton. Users are expected to collaborate with others, to avoid editing disruptively, and to try to reach a consensus rather than repeatedly undoing other users' edits once it is known that there is a disagreement.

Please be particularly aware that Wikipedia's policy on edit warring states:

Edit warring is disruptive regardless of how many reverts you have made.
Do not edit war even if you believe you are right.

If you find yourself in an editing dispute, use the article's talk page to discuss controversial changes; work towards a version that represents consensus among editors. You can post a request for help at an appropriate noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases it may be appropriate to request temporary page protection. If you engage in an edit war, you may be blocked from editing. Jytdog (talk) 20:16, 29 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

WP:SOCK

The accounts User:Fahkr smith and User:Nicole tylor are obvious sockpuppets. We ban people from Wikipedia who use sockpuppets. You are new here so I will not seek action against you, but do not do that again. Jytdog (talk) 15:52, 30 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Well, i keep reading on the guide and i yes it was sockpuppets... and i am sorry about it, i am new here. Can i post it on the talk page of cellular automata ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mhanga parto (talk • contribs) 18:17, 30 August 2015 (UTC) [reply]

Thanks for replying! Quick note on Wikipedia logistics, or maybe better, etiquette. In Talk page discussions, we "thread" comments by indenting - when you reply to someone, you put a colon ":" in front of your comment, and the WP software converts that into an indent; if the other person has indented once, then you indent twice by putting two colons "::" which the WP software converts into two intents, and when that gets ridiculous you reset back to the margin (or "outdent") by putting this {{od}} in front of your comment. This also allows you to make it clear if you are also responding to something that someone else responded to if there are more than two people in the discussion; in that case you would indent the same amount as the person just above you in the thread. I hope that all makes sense. And at the end of the comment, please "sign" by typing exactly four (not 3 or 5) tildas "~~~~" which the WP software converts into a date stamp and links to your talk and user pages. That is how we know who said what. Will reply on the substance in a second... Please do this going forward. Thanks. Jytdog (talk) 19:39, 30 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I am not willing to discuss content with you at this point. We need to finish the conflict of interest discussion that I started above. Please reply there. Once you do, we can talk about the content you are interested in. Thanks. Jytdog (talk) 19:39, 30 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]