User talk:PeterSF49

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Conflict of interest

Welcome to Wikipedia. If you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article GeoVector, you may have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, edits where there is a conflict of interest, or where such a conflict might reasonably be inferred, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:

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For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Thank you. Ckatz^chat _spy 22:12, 11 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Per your note on my talk page, if other companies are not suitable, they may be removed as well. However, the presence of such text does not warrant the addition of additional such material. Furthermore, and more importantly, you work for GeoVector and as such have a conflict of interest in terms of your contributions. Please avoid adding promotional material and allow uninvloved editors to make such assessments. --Ckatz^chat _spy 22:15, 11 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Peter, thank you for your note. Unfortunately, I think you may have missed my point about your inherent conflict of interest. Simply put, as a GeoVector employee, you cannot properly assess the GeoVector article in an neutral manner; this same COI also must be taken into account when considering if details of your company are relevant or not in terms of Wikipedia's articles. Keep in mind that this is certainly not unique to your case; company representatives often confuse Wikipedia's encyclopedic goals for an article on their firm as being the same as what the company itself might choose to present. Again, I ask that you review the COI guidelines as they have many useful tips on how to make your concerns known while avoiding the problems that arise from directly editing articles reltated to your company and its work. --Ckatz^chat _spy 16:41, 13 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Stop. Please, just stop. You are an employee of the company, and as such cannot make such assessments. If you do not agree with my opinion, I certainly have no problem with helping you to seek additional input from other editors. However, you have to stop deleting templates regarding article issues without addressing the issues they represent. Seriously, this can lead to a suspension of editing privileges, and that is certainly not an ideal solution. I'll say it again - I am more than willing to help you get additional input - but you have to respect the concerns raised regarding your clear conflict of interest. --Ckatz^chat _spy 17:44, 13 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Please note that pages are not - and cannot - be "taken over" by any one editor. Content is open for editing by all, and there is no "preferred version" that a company can approve or revert to. It is not strictly the "employee" status as much as it is the connection to the company, either directly or indirectly. If GeoVector finds someone, in all likelihood that person will have the same COI problems that an employee would. What I was meaing was that the article needs someone independent of GeoVector, its employees and their associates who can fairly assess the matter. Please remember that the article is not GeoVector's page on Wikipedia, it is Wikipedia's page about GeoVector. There is a clear and distinct difference between the two concepts. --Ckatz^chat _spy 17:56, 13 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Your recent edits

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May 2010

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did with this edit to the page GeoVector. Such edits constitute vandalism and are reverted. Please do not continue to make unconstructive edits to pages; use the sandbox for testing. Thank you. Uncle Dick (talk) 18:04, 13 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

NB - while not proper methodology, based on previous discussions with this user the post appears to have been in good faith (and not vandalism). --Ckatz^chat _spy 18:38, 13 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]