User talk:Pictex

March 2017

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at Eleni Antoniadou. Your edits appear to be disruptive and have been reverted.

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Please ensure you are familiar with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines, and please do not continue to make edits that appear disruptive. Continual disruptive editing may result in loss of editing privileges. Thank you. freshacconci (✉) 12:31, 30 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Conflict of interest in Wikipedia

I work on conflict of interest issues here in Wikipedia, along with my regular editing. Your edits to date are entirely about Eleni Antoniadou and based on comments like this, you apparently have some connection with her. I'm giving you notice of our Conflict of Interest guideline and Terms of Use, and will have some comments and requests for you below.

Hello, Pictex. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places, or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic, and it is important when editing Wikipedia articles that such connections be completely transparent. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. In particular, we ask that you please:

avoid editing or creating articles related to you and your family, friends, school, company, club, or organization, as well as any competing companies' projects or products;
instead, you are encouraged to propose changes on the Talk pages of affected article(s) (see the {{request edit}} template);
when discussing affected articles, disclose your COI (see WP:DISCLOSE);
avoid linking to the Wikipedia article or to the 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).

Please take a few moments to read and review Wikipedia's policies regarding conflicts of interest, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, sourcing and autobiographies. Thank you.

Comments and requests

Wikipedia is a widely-used reference work and managing conflict of interest is essential for ensuring the integrity of Wikipedia and retaining the public's trust in it. As in academia, COI is managed here in two steps - disclosure and a form of peer review. Please note that there is no bar to being part of the Wikipedia community if you want to be involved in articles where you have a conflict of interest; there are just some things we ask you to do (and if you are paid, some things you need to do).

Disclosure is the most important, and first, step. While I am not asking you to disclose your identity (anonymity is strictly protecting by our WP:OUTING policy) would you please disclose if you have some connection with Antoniadou, directly or through a third party (e.g. a PR agency or the like)? You can answer how ever you wish (giving personally identifying information or not), but if there is a connection, please disclose it. After you respond (and you can just reply below), perhaps we can talk a bit about editing Wikipedia, to give you some more orientation to how this place works. Please reply here, just below, to keep the discussion in one place. Thanks! Jytdog (talk) 18:46, 30 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for replying below, saying that you know her and are an "insider" in the events that happened. You are probably aware of "conflicts of interest" in academia; the same concept operates here but a bit differently. Because you have personal connections to Eleni and the events here, you have a conflict of interest in Wikipedia and you should follow our COI guideline. If you don't understand, please first review WP:COI, and then ask any questions you have here. Please reply with questions, or with an ackowledgement that you have a COI with regard to this matter. We can take it from there. Thanks. Jytdog (talk) 19:06, 30 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Multiple accounts?

Would you please let me know if you have been editing from multiple accounts, or if you are working with someone else who has a separate account? Your edits are almost identical with those of UCLedu.

If either thing has been happening, you can be indefinitely blocked, if you continue doing this, under the WP:SOCK policy.

If you simply disclose that you have been doing this, and stop doing it, there will be no problem.

Please reply about your relationship with the UCLedu account or the person operating that account. Thanks. Jytdog (talk) 18:49, 30 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I have used both names but unintentionally I apologize for the mistake. I still work at UCL and know this story, thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pictex (talk • contribs) 18:53, 30 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for replying! Quick note on the logistics of discussing things on Talk pages, which are essential for everything that happens here. In Talk page discussions, we "thread" comments by indenting - when you reply to someone, you put a colon ":" in front of your comment, and the WP software converts that into an indent; if the other person has indented once, then you indent twice by putting two colons "::" which the WP software converts into two indents, and when that gets ridiculous you reset back to the margin (or "outdent") by putting this {{od}} in front of your comment. This also allows you to make it clear if you are also responding to something that someone else responded to if there are more than two people in the discussion; in that case you would indent the same amount as the person just above you in the thread. I hope that all makes sense. And at the end of the comment, please "sign" by typing exactly four (not 3 or 5) tildas "~~~~" which the WP software converts into a date stamp and links to your talk and user pages. That is how we know who said what. I know this is insanely archaic and unwieldy, but this is the software environment we have to work on. Sorry about that. Will reply on the substance in a second... Jytdog (talk) 19:01, 30 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for replying. Two more questions. Are there any other accounts, and will you please stop using the UCLedu account? Jytdog (talk) 19:01, 30 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

yes I'm only going to use this account, I got mistakenly logged out before I'm sorry. I will try to follow your guide but it's a bit complicated for me, thanks for taking the time to explain all this though. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pictex (talk • contribs) 19:06, 30 March 2017 ((UTC)

Thanks. you forgot to sign and I did that for you. Please indent and sign in the future. :) -- Jytdog (talk) 19:08, 30 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I will put a notice on both userpages for you, informing other editors about the accounts. Jytdog (talk) 19:10, 30 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Above you mentioned "your guide" but please note that every time you edit Wikipedia, you are a Wikipedian. They are your guides - all of our guides. Jytdog (talk) 19:14, 30 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! And now I learned how to sign this thing! :) Pictex (talk) 19:19, 30 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Yay! Please reply above on the COI stuff, and we will be done dealing with these foundational issues around your presence here in WP. I can teach you other stuff about editing WP later - first things first. Jytdog (talk) 19:22, 30 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]