User talk:ComiCONNErik

Your username[edit]

Welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your username, "ComiCONN", may not comply with our username policy. Please note that you may not use a username that represents the name of a company, group, organization, product, or website. Examples of usernames that are not allowed include "XYZ Company", "MyWidgetsUSA.com", and "Trammel Museum of Art". However, you are invited to use a username that contains such a name if it identifies you personally, such as "Mark at WidgetsUSA", "Jack Smith at the XY Foundation", and "WidgetFan87".

Please also note that Wikipedia does not allow accounts to be shared by multiple people, and that you may not advocate for or promote any company, group, organization, product, or website, regardless of your username. Moreover, I recommend that you read our conflict of interest guideline. If you are a single individual and are willing to contribute to Wikipedia in an unbiased manner, please create a new account or request a change of username, by completing this form, that complies with our username policy. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. Thank you. —k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 15:10, 18 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

February 2017[edit]

Hello, I'm C.Fred. I noticed that you recently removed some content from Connecticut ComiCONN without adequately explaining why. In the future, it would be helpful to others if you described your changes to Wikipedia with an accurate edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry; the removed content has been restored. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. —C.Fred (talk) 17:26, 16 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hello ComiCONNErik. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have a financial stake in promoting a topic, such as the edit you made to Connecticut ComiCONN. Paid advocacy is a category of conflict of interest (COI) editing that involves being compensated by a person, group, company or organization to use Wikipedia to promote their interests. Undisclosed paid advocacy is prohibited by our policies on neutral point of view and what Wikipedia is not, and is an especially egregious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a black hat practice.
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, if you are receiving or expect to receive compensation for your edits, 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:ComiCONNErik. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=ComiCONNErik|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}. If I am mistaken – you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits – please state that in response to this message. If you are being compensated, please provide the required disclosure. In either case, please do not edit further until you answer this message.

Since you claim to have designed the convention's logo, it is reasonable to assume that you are on the convention's staff or work with its public relations firm. —C.Fred (talk) 17:29, 16 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Fred. My Name is Erik Yacko, I am creator & co-owner of ComiCONN as stated in the wiki information. The corrections and changes I made are correct, I am updating the wiki page for 2017 and removing information we no longer want on the page. Any further questions, please contact me. Thank you.

You cannot remove information just because you don't want it on the page. You do not own or control the article about ComiCONN. Really, because of your ownership stake, you should not be directly editing the article at all. You may request changes on the talk page, which independent editors will review. —C.Fred (talk) 17:48, 16 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Fred, I don't use wiki on a regular basis, I apologize. I am just trying to correct information that needed to be corrected or removed. One of the original contributors to this wiki information no longer has anything to do with the show and the page needed to be updated. Thank you.

Do you have published, independent, reliable sources to show he's no longer involved? —C.Fred (talk) 17:59, 16 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Fred the legal court document is no longer online, if you need to speak with my attorney you can contact Keith Murray here: atty.keith.murray@gmail.com. Here is one link stating the split between my partner and I for the 2016 show.

http://www.nerdcaliber.com/hartford-comic-con-and-comicconn-merge/

Legal court documents should not be used as sources regardless. —C.Fred (talk) 18:33, 16 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Understood and thank you. Are we set with what I changed today?

Hello,

I am trying to update my Wiki page and I was blocked?! I was updating the page with correct information to bring everything up to date. What is the problem? How can I add correct information? I am block indefinitely when I own and created the convention the page is based on?

Please get back to me.

Thank you.

You were advised above that, due to your conflict of interest, you should be suggesting changes on the talk page, not making them directly. You ignored that advice and edited the article again. Your edit added highly promotional material, including inappropriate use of trademark symbols (never permitted in articles), use of the slogan as an uncritical reference and an endorsement ("A Show for the Fans by the Fans!"), added external links within article text rather than at the bottom of the article within an "External links" section, used inappropriate tone ("the BIGGEST show in the smallest state and a host of other shows", we would never use all-caps like that), and removed maintenance tags. Editing in that way is absolutely not permitted, so asking "how" you may make such edits is the wrong question. You may not make such edits, there is no "how". Seraphimblade ^{Talk to me} 19:25, 28 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I am no Wiki expert, I apologize if something was done wrong, but all my information is correct. I had no idea you couldn't use the TM. I do own "A Show for the Fans by the Fans!" and it is trademarked by me. Also, Rhode Island Comic Con is the BIGGEST show in the smallest star. I was just stating a fact, sorry. I thought we could add facts like that. All I was doing was updating the page and making it look up to date. I was planning on adding more information. I didn't realize the vast restrictions. I am not allowed to add pictures like other pages? I think informing me is more beneficial then blocking me forever. There is information there that is out dated and 2020 stuff does need to be added. Thank you.

Adding images is fine, so long as they're either freely licensed or meet the nonfree content criteria. I said what the problems were above; adding images had nothing to do with it. Adding promotional text was the problem. The "vast restriction" is that we require articles to be strictly neutral in content and tone, and also stick to material verified by a published reliable source rather than relying on personal knowledge. It is very difficult to remain neutral on subjects one is close to or has a financial or other interest in, so we ask editors in that situation to suggest edits on the talk page for editors who are not involved like that to check first. Since that particular talk page isn't heavily watched, you can use {{request edit}} to ensure other editors' attention will be drawn to it. That will add the request to a queue for others to check. If you'd be willing to agree to stay to requesting edits on the talk page, and make an attempt at using neutral material from reliable sources, I'd be willing to unblock you, but we can't have any repeats of that. Seraphimblade ^{Talk to me} 20:05, 28 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. I appreciate it. I just want the correct information listed. Trust me, I know it must be a complete pain to monitor all this information. I didn't mean to step on any toes. Is it possible to just remove the TM symbols, lower case the BIGGEST, and remove all the pictures except the ComiCONN picture? The rest would be up to date for today. Or do I need to go back and redo all that in the request edit page? Once again, thank you for understanding.

I've unblocked your account. So far as correct information, the information must also be verified by a reliable, published source. If it's just something you happen to know, but a source doesn't confirm it, it can't go in the article. For any additions you'd like to make, do make sure that you include what reliable source you got the information from, or the request will likely be declined. For now, I've stubbed the article, because the vast majority of it was not referenced. Seraphimblade ^{Talk to me} 20:20, 28 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you.