User talk:Sac.mosdac

MOSDAC

Thanks for creating this article. Just to let you know that I've cut the details of individual satellite programmes as this duplicates material already at Indian_Space_Research_Organisation#Satellite_programs and Indian National Satellite System. If you want to write something about how these satellites directly relate to MOSDAC, though, feel free. --McGeddon (talk) 10:04, 29 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Sac.mosdac appreciates and understands the deletion of individual satellite programs

Hello, Sac.mosdac. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the article MOSDAC, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. In particular, please:

The article is about the official web site of ISRO dealing with satellite data observations in the field of meteorology.

avoid editing or creating articles related to you and your circle, your organization, its competitors, projects or products;
instead propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (see the {{request edit}} template);
when discussing affected articles, disclose your COI (see WP:DISCLOSE);
avoid linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see WP:SPAM);
exercise great caution so that you do not violate Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID).

MOSDAC is a web site. Sac.mosdac is not paid for creating this article on Wikipedia. The account Sac.mosdac has been created by an employee of SAC-ISRO. It is not a shared account.

Please familiarize yourself with relevant policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, sourcing and autobiographies. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 10:37, 30 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

With reference to this edit, can you please explain why you think a "Products Catalog" belongs in an encyclopaedia article? It certainly isn't obvious, and looks very much like an attempt to use Wikipedia for advertising.

The data referred to in the product catalogue is scientific data. The data is not sold. It is meant for research purposes. As a policy the data is not meant to be used for any commercial gain. The idea was to let users know about the type of products that are generated and disseminated from Indian met-ocean missions. If this is still considered as an advertisement, the section on product catalog may be withdrawn by the reviewers.

I see that you are still editing the article, despite your unambiguous conflict of interest, and the message above informing you of Wikipedia's guidelines on conflict of interest.

It took me time to figure out how to reply in the talk section. Sorry for the delay in replying to your queries.

I see that you have not made any disclosure of paid involvement after being informed of the requirement to do so. Presumably that means that you are not paid by MOSDAC in any capacity. In that case, your username could be misleading, as it seems to suggest a connection to MOSDAC. To avoid any doubts and uncertainties, can you please explicitly state whether you have a personal connection to MOSDAC, and if so what that connection is? If you are paid by MOSDAC then it is a requirement of the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use that you state so; if you have no connection then your username is contrary to Wikipedia's username policy; if you have an unpaid connection then it will really help if you can make that clear, so as to remove any doubts that either of the other two situations may exist. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 11:20, 31 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

 I am not paid by MOSDAC in any capacity. MOSDAC is an official web site of SAC-ISRO and a non-profit data repository. Yes my personal connection with MOSDAC is as MOSDAC Administrator. My responsibilities include the 24x7x365 operations related to real time satellite data acquisition, satellite data products generation and hosting the same on MOSDAC for use by the research and Academic community world wide.

Sac.mosdac (talk) 17:42, 4 April 2016 (UTC)Sac.mosdac (talk) 17:44, 4 April 2016 (UTC)Sac.mosdac (talk) 05:17, 5 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Your replies to JamesBWatson are evasive. You confirm that you are an employee of SAC-ISRO, which owns the website, and you have a user name related to the website, so you have an obvious conflict of interest. It's hair-splitting to claim you aren't paid by the website. Advocacy on behalf of your emplyer is prohibited by our policies on neutral point of view and what Wikipedia is not. Paid advocates are very strongly discouraged from direct article editing, and should instead propose changes on the talk page of the article in question if an article exists, and if it does not, from attempting to write an article at all. At best, any proposed article creation should be submitted through the articles for creation process, rather than directly. Regardless, you are required by the Wikimedia Terms of Use to disclose your employer, client and affiliation. You can post such a mandatory disclosure to your user page at User:Sac.mosdac. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Sac.mosdac|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}. If you are being compensated, please provide the required disclosure. Please do not edit further until you respond to this message. Please do not edit an article with which you have a COI Jimfbleak - talk to me? 06:15, 7 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Also, please don't make fake claims that the satellite images were your own work and that you therefore have ownership of the copyright. Unless you can explain how you were operating the satellite cameras, and why the agency should allow you to claim personal ownership of the images, this is simply untrue Jimfbleak - talk to me? 06:30, 7 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]