User talk:Taylorongaro

Edits to Open Garden article.

Welcome to Wikipedia, Taylorongaro! I note that you've made seven edits thus far, all to the page Open Garden, all of which have been reverted, the most recent of them by me. You've been editing the page to assert that you are a founder of the company, which may well be the case, and may not be controversial, but you have not provided any documentation to support the claim. In the absence of citations to, for instance, contemporaneous news coverage in reliable sources or SEC filings, your claim does not meet Wikipedia's test of verifiability. A google search doesn't yield much that would be of help, but there is an article in the Indian periodical Business Today, of which there's only one mention in the "reliable sources" noticeboard. It might well be sufficient, should you choose to use it. There is a separate issue of conflict of interest editing, and you should also be aware of Wikipedia's policies regarding such edits. An excerpt:

COI editing is strongly discouraged on Wikipedia. It undermines public confidence and risks causing public embarrassment to the individuals and companies being promoted. Editors with a COI are sometimes unaware of whether or how much it has influenced their editing. If COI editing causes disruption, an administrator may opt to place blocks on the involved accounts. Editors with a COI, including paid editors, are expected to disclose it whenever they seek to change an affected article's content.

Although it seems self-evident from your username, you have not explicitly disclosed your relationship with the organization, nor explained how you might, or might not, benefit from the edits you're seeking to make. I encourage you to contribute to Wikipedia, but also encourage you to familiarize yourself with applicable community norms, so the experience will be more enjoyable than frustrating.

I've taken the liberty of adding the Business Today citation, enclosed in comments, within the Open Garden article. Should you (or, preferably, someone else who more clearly has no conflict of interest) choose to pursue the matter further, it may provide an example of how to support the claims you're making. EVhotrodder (talk) 08:59, 24 January 2022 (UTC)

@Taylorongaro: I see you subsequently made a further edit, adding the sentence (later reverted by BurritoTunnelMaintenance): "All Co-Founders (Micha, Taylor, Stas, Greg) are no longer with the Company, while Taylor Ongaro still owns Founding Shares at the time of this writing in January, 2022 while everyone one else has cashed out." On Wikipedia, this sort of assertion, made from personal belief but unsupported by citation to a reliable source, is called "original research." An assertion about what may or may not exist in the cap table of a privately-held company is well beyond the scope of what a reader would expect to find in an encyclopedia (unless, for instance, that were itself the subject of some controversy that had been covered in reliable sources), and the tone (referring to actors by first name or unestablished nickname) is also unsuitably informal. It appears that you may be laying the groundwork for pointing to Wikipedia itself as a source, which is putting the cart before the horse. Wikipedia is a compendium of references to sources, it is not itself a source. EVhotrodder (talk) 09:04, 25 January 2022 (UTC)

January 2022

Hello, I'm EVhotrodder. I noticed that you made an edit concerning content related to a living (or recently deceased) person on Open Garden, but you didn't support your changes with a citation to a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now. Wikipedia has a very strict policy concerning how we write about living people, so please help us keep such articles accurate and clear. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Taylor, go look at your talk page, and the talk page for this article. You're editing without attributing to sources. EVhotrodder (talk) 15:42, 28 January 2022 (UTC)

Administrators' noticeboard, January 28, 2022

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you.BurritoTunnelMaintenance (talk) 16:09, 28 January 2022 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Taylorongaro. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Open Garden, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest 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:

• avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization or competitors;
• propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the {{request edit}} template);
• disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see Wikipedia:Conflict of interest#How to disclose a COI);
• avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam#External link spamming);
• do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Secretlondon (talk) 21:48, 28 January 2022 (UTC)

I'll talk with Verizon Ventures and OpenGarden CEO and get you guys to leave me alone and leave history as it truly is. Are you a kid at this point? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Taylorongaro (talk • contribs) 15:46, 28 January 2022 (UTC)

Hi - I'm Girth Summit, an administrator here. I just wanted to make it clear that neither Verizon Ventures, nor the CEO of Open Garden, have any say over the content of our articles. The editors above have been offering you good advice - you should be following our COI guidance, and using the article talk page rather than editing it yourself. Thank you. Girth Summit _(blether) 09:49, 29 January 2022 (UTC)