User talk:RogerBurks

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[edit] Landrum Bolling

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[edit] Copyright violation in Nancy Lindborg

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[edit] Mercy Corps WP:COI

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RogerBurks (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log)
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[edit] Edits on Mercy Corps

If you have a close connection to some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Mercy Corps, you may have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, edits where there is a conflict of interest, or where such a conflict might reasonably be inferred from the tone of the edit and the proximity of the editor to the subject, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:

  1. editing articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with,
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  4. avoid breaching relevant policies and guidelines, especially neutral point of view, verifiability, and autobiography.

For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have conflict of interest, please see Wikipedia:Business' FAQ. For more details about what constitutes a conflict of interest, please see Wikipedia:Conflict of Interest. Thank you. --Hu12 00:20, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Copyright problems

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[edit] Edit warring on Mercy Corps

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[edit] Excessive editing and tagging of the Mercy Corps article seems strange

Not sure why this particular administrator - Hu12 - is so intent on reverting valid edits to the Mercy Corps article, including inclusion of outside references that were requested. Please explain.Roger 00:42, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

Read above. Unfortunately your conflict of interest editing involves contributing to Wikipedia in order to promote Mercy Corps . Because your the senior writer for Mercy Corps, Such a conflict is strongly discouraged. Your contributions to wikipedia under RogerBurks and IP 207.189.98.44, consist entirely of promote Mercy Corps. Looking through your contributions as a whole, the all seem to be Mercy Corps related only. Please do not create articles or continue adding links to your own websites to Wikipedia.--Hu12 00:48, 13 November 2007 (UTC)
I've been looking at the edits on Mercy Corps and the conversation taking place between you and RogerBurks since it was recently reported at Wikipedia talk:Administrator intervention against vandalism. I must ask that you please not bite the newcomers. RogerBurks appears to be editing in good faith and addressing the concerns regarding NPOV that are mentioned in the pages templates.
Your comments on this user's talk page seem repetitive and appear to be from a template. They do not communicate clearly what issue you have, aside from repeatedly issuing the COI warning. You also add a list of IP addresses here but fail to explain what relevance or meaning they have, possibly confusing the user further. Although the template regarding WP:COI mentions that users should "exercise great caution" when a COI could be interpreted, it does not expressly prohibit it. Therefore, without specific guidance the repeated posting of this template likely serves only to annoy rather than inform or instruct. Indeed it was not until this section that you that you bothered to explain yourself clearly. Again, as you state above, apparent COI is strongly discouraged but not prohibited. I believe that we should judge RogerBurks edits on their face rather than revert them outright (Roger- you need to make sure you add verifiable references that are not primary sources). --Mperry 01:25, 13 November 2007 (UTC)
RogerBurks is no newcomer, this account has been active since, 3 February 2006, over a year and a half. Perhaps the 254 edits from IP 207.189.98.44(Registered to MERCYCORPS), and the mutitude use of sock accounts and IP's shed some light on the long term nature of the problem that wikipedia faces. For well over a year half the sole purpose of these accounts were to promote Mercy Corps. SeeWikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Spam#Mercy_Corps_COI_spam--Hu12 01:46, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

The reason that there are several posts from that IP address is that there are multiple people working for Mercy Corps who contribute to various parts of Wikipedia. It's not just me; I have a user account and usually log in to make changes. If you look at the posts from that IP, you'll see many more contributions than just Mercy Corps. In fact, one of any 150 people who work at Mercy Corps could have made edits or contributions at any given time. This is not part of some sock puppet campaign of self-promotion. Thank you for your comprehension. Roger 03:30, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

I think this is ridiculous - and disagree that, just because I work for an organization, that I am unable to provide an objective voice on Wikipedia. The fact that my contributions have been mostly about Mercy Corps is irrelevant - I am striving to be neutral and just spent time this afternoon making the Mercy Corps article more objective. Why shouldn't subject-matter experts be able to create and edit articles, when efforts are made to stay objective? Seems draconian.

By the way, a colleague just pointed this article out to me: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_pod. Not only VERY self-promotional, but actually offers links to go and buy the products. That seems like a much bigger COI than a humanitarian organization trying to have a small presence on Wikipedia. Roger 00:56, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

So you have a team in place to promote Mercy Corps on Wikipedia? Conflict of interest is a conflict of interest, they don't come in sizes. WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS. The nature of Wikipedia means that you can't make a convincing argument based on what other articles do or don't have a COI issue. So just pointing out that a another article has a problem, does not excuse your organization. see Neutral point of view, What Wikipedia is not and Spam policy--Hu12 01:06, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

No team. And it does seem odd to have no recourse on this - just what you say. Seems overly authoritarian.. Roger 01:09, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

This is an encyclopedia. Wikipedia is not webspace provider or a vehicle for promotion. Please see Wikipedia:Introduction and Wikipedia:User page for more information. Thanks.--Hu12 01:15, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

OK, fair enough. As mentioned, though, I have made numerous - and frequent - changes to abide with the rules here. A question: what do I need to do to get the COI tag removed from the article? It's very distracting, and I don't think we should have to live with it indefinitely. Thanks in advance for your advice on this. Roger 03:27, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

Unfotunatly the tag needs to stay as its a factual. I tried another version of the tag, however this one is better. You are the largest contributor with 96 total since your first edit back on 02/03/2006. You company IP comes in at second with 14 since first edit on 11/16/2004. I'm third with 6 edits. --Hu12 04:14, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

OK, I understand that. But there must be some kind of solution to eventually get this tag removed. What is one suggestion? Thanks for your help on this. Roger 04:44, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

Hey, once again: what can we all do (as Wikipedians) to get the COI tag removed from the Mercy Corps page? It shouldn't have to be up there for perpetuity, right? And there have been numerous edits by folks other than me over the last few days. Again, thanks in advance for your help. Roger 20:52, 14 November 2007 (UTC)