User talk:Simmondp

July 2007

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Proposed deletion of Camp Project Wales

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Notability not established

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Speedy deletion nomination of "silver fm"

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File permission problem with File:Silver FM Logo.gif

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Motor vehicles

I'm curious to know, a company who builds cars that are unfinished, then sends them away to one of several different coachbuilders, selected by the customer, to build the body and interior of the car, if not a kit car, what would you call it? --Falcadore (talk) 09:49, 15 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Ford calls them "Qualified Vehicle Modifiers (QVM)" I guess if they are approved, and thus "Vehicle Modifiers" as a generic term.

Except Ford have built an entire car before the QVMs get hold of it. In Rolls Royce's pre War instance this is not the case. Cars were substantially incomplete. --Falcadore (talk) 17:45, 16 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Nomination of Camp Project Wales for deletion

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Nomination of Identity 3.0 for deletion

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Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Simmondp. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the page Jericho Forum, 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. We ask that you:

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Response

Help and guidance please; I have now re-read the Jericho Forum page a number of times, and as far as I know, everything on there is 100% factual. Yes I was involved, as was Andrew who has also been editing it to ensure that all the references to the documents are accurate and up to date (OpenGroup keep changing them). Both Andrew and I did serve within Jericho, but in a voluntary and unpaid capacity - and I am struggling to see and COI here..... Can you give an example to help? Paul (talk) 15:01, 26 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Paul, it's expected for Wikipedia editors to disclose any external relationships with the subjects of articles they edit, regardless of whether payment is involved. Even the co-founder of Wikipedia does it. Disclosure adds transparency to how articles are written and helps keep them neutral.

Currently, my focus is not on the Jericho Forum article (although you may want to consolidate the excessive number of external links there). However, there are two major issues with the Identity 3.0 article:

The Principles of Identity 3.0 section takes your entire "Identity 3.0 - Principles" document and places it in Wikipedia verbatim. This is a copyright violation, but if you have the rights to the content, you could grant Wikipedia permission to copy your content.
Even if the licensing of the text were cleared, the content would be considered a primary source, not a secondary source independent of the subject. The article subject needs to meet the notability standards to survive the deletion discussion.

Removing your name from the Identity 3.0 article doesn't eliminate the conflict of interest. (The only way to do that is to end your external relationship with the Jericho Forum and the Global Identity Foundation.) Of course, that wouldn't be a reasonable thing to do, so disclosure is all that I'm asking. — Newslinger talk 19:21, 26 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Proposed deletion of The MVP's (group)

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Does not meet WP:GNG, the only source here is a crowdsourced website and a primary source youtube video. I wasn't able to find more online or on Rock's Backpages

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Speedy deletion nomination of The MVP's (group)

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The MVP's (group) moved to draftspace

An article you recently created, The MVP's (group), does not have enough sources and citations as written to remain published. It needs more citations from reliable, independent sources. (?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of "Draft:" before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page. Mccapra (talk) 16:02, 30 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Your draft article, Draft:The MVP's (group)

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