User talk:Taeyasu

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Hello, Taeyasu, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article. Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

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December 2024

Hello, Taeyasu, welcome to Wikipedia and thank you for your contributions. Your editing pattern indicates that you may be using multiple accounts or coordinating editing with people outside Wikipedia, such as Trendalchemy (talk · contribs). Our policy on multiple accounts usually does not allow this, and users who misuse multiple accounts may be blocked from editing. If you operate multiple accounts directly or with the help of another person, please disclose these connections. Thank you. --Richard Yin (talk) 11:15, 23 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Notice of Conflict of interest noticeboard discussion

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard regarding a possible conflict of interest incident with which you may be involved. Thank you. --Richard Yin (talk) 01:19, 26 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Richard, I've read through the discussion on the COI noticeboard. This is my first time writing anything on Wikipedia and I'm still learning how everything works. It isn't easy to navigate if you're not familiar with it. I understand now that I should have written the entry in a sandbox. I thought I was working in my own separate or private user space since my entry was titled "User:Taeyasu/Sample page." It sounds like a sample and doesn't read properly for something that should be titled "Translated."

I'm more than happy to disclose my relationship with Translated. I'm a single contractor with a single account and had assumed that I would have to disclose before anything was published publicly (because as I mentioned, I thought was working in a personal space). Taeyasu (talk) 05:51, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

For what it's worth I can absolutely see how you might assume that content in your userspace is private. However, as a matter of policy Wikipedia is not a web host or file storage service; content that is posted in any part of the website is subject to content policies. In particular, many instances of obvious advertising originate in new users' userspaces, and part of the reason for this policy is to detect these cases early so that they don't end up in published articles.

As to your draft in particular (and I apologize for the lack of specific examples since I'm unable to access the text now), it attracted my attention because it was written from a non-neutral point of view, so much so that it seemed to me an advertisement masquerading as an article. Article sections dedicated to promoting individual products, promotional wording, and overreliance on primary sources (including press releases) all gave me the impression that the article was written with objectives detrimental to the health of Wikipedia. As I've said to a member of your client's organization, if you'd like to recreate the article and publish it to mainspace then I strongly recommend that you do your best to understand Wikipedia's criteria for notability (especially as applied to companies and organizations) as well as its guidelines for writing from a neutral point of view.

I hope this helps; please let me know if you have any further questions. --Richard Yin (talk) 12:16, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for providing more clarity on all of this, Richard. The reasoning behind all of it makes sense.

I'll dig into the criteria and guidelines you've provided. I very much understand that the article needs to convey neutrality. Now it's about understanding all the nuances and details that give an article a neutral POV. So I'll keep working on this in my sandbox until it meets all the requirements. Taeyasu (talk) 17:21, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]