User talk:Djhuff

About

Since approximately 2012, I've written Wikipedia articles, for companies and individuals who meet Wikipedia notability guidelines, on a "for fee" basis.

I did not disclose my paid contributor status until Feb. 2014 when a notice appeared on Wikipedia about paid contributors. I posted my status here in my About section. However, I didn't sign it because I didn't think I needed to, this being my Talk page and all.

Double unfortunately, I did not keep up with the paid contributor discussion nor read the guidelines and thus did not disclose on the articles I wrote or edited that I was a paid contributor.

On 4/29/2015, after being instructed to do so, I added a Disclosure notice to the pages to which I made contributions or created.

This entire process has actually been an awesome learning experience. I've learned that being nice means people are helpful and nice back. I've also learned more about the Wikipedia community and how it works and thinks.

If I were to do anything here that's constructive and to atone for my actions, I'd help create user-friendly guides on how to use Wikipedia. The reason I helped so many companies / individuals create their articles is because the instructions and rules are quite convoluted. You can spend hours trying to figure out how to do one thing. Wikipedia needs less "hurt my brain" and more "Ok, now I see how it works." Djhuff (talk) 23:37, 29 April 2015 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation

Nancy Lee Gossels, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.
The article has been assessed as C-Class, which is recorded on the article's talk page. You may like to take a look at the grading scheme to see how you can improve the article.

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Kevin Rutherford (talk) 19:44, 13 July 2012 (UTC)

Column Technologies

I was glad to see that you'd greatly improved the article Column Technologies since I'd removed it. However, I noticed that you removed the {{orphan}} template, while the article remains an orphan, per WP:ORPHAN. Please do not remove maintenance templates unless the issue they correspond to has been addressed. Thank you. Rutebega (talk) 01:58, 11 January 2013 (UTC)

I linked two pages to the Column Technologies page and removed the maintenance template as I have now addressed the orphan issue. Thank you for calling it to my attention. Djhuff 16:00, 11 January 2013 (UTC)

October 2013

Hello, I'm Melmann. I noticed that you recently removed all content from Southern African Music Rights Organisation, with this edit, without explaining why. In the future, it would be helpful to others if you described your changes to Wikipedia with an edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry, I restored the page's content. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. Melmann^(talk) 12:06, 1 October 2013 (UTC)

Melmann -- I apologize for the mistake on the SAMRO page. Can you tell me how I remove that page from my user sandbox? I want to create a new page. [[user:djhuff|djhuff]

Talkback

Hello, Djhuff. You have new messages at Melmann's talk page.
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Melmann^(talk) 12:40, 1 October 2013 (UTC)

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Disclosure required

Since 2013 you have almost exclusively created or greatly expanded articles on many businesses and people associated with those businesses, including Cloudred, Michael Stelzner/Social Media Examiner, C. Peter R. Gossels, Harvey Mackay, Sealevel Systems, Restaurantware, InsureMyTrip.com/James N. Grace, Gregory D. Hague, Healthline, Southern African Music Rights Organisation, Cabot Corporation, and Column Technologies. This might lead an editor to conclude you have some kind of undisclosed financial connection to these entities. If you do, you must disclose the connection under Wikipedia's Terms of Service as described at WP:COI. — Brianhe (talk) 19:42, 28 April 2015 (UTC)

Hi Brianhe (talk)

Yes, I have been paid by various entities to write their pages, although I've also written a few on my own. I do take Wikipedia and its mission seriously and have endeavored to always create pages that meet notability requirements and that educate people about the topic. I'm happy to add a disclosure. Do I add this to my user page?

Djhuff (talk) 20:29, 28 April 2015 (UTC)

Notice of Conflict of interest noticeboard discussion

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Hi Brianhe (talk)

How would you like me to respond on notice board?

Djhuff (talk) 20:32, 28 April 2015 (UTC)

My thoughts on this align with Jimmy Wales' "bright line" preference as expressed here. — Brianhe (talk) 00:41, 29 April 2015 (UTC)

Thank you. Actually, I did disclose myself some time ago. It's right at the top of this page. -- Djhuff (talk) 02:12, 29 April 2015 (UTC)

Nomination of James N. Grace for deletion

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COI Notice

Per your disclosure here, you are a paid editor and are not complying with Wikipedia's terms of use nor with its COI guidelines. Please see the notice below.

Hello, Djhuff. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest or close connection to the subject.

All editors are required to comply with Wikipedia's neutral point of view content policy. People who are very close to a subject often have a distorted view of it, which may cause them to inadvertently edit in ways that make the article either too flattering or too disparaging. People with a close connection to a subject are not absolutely prohibited from editing about that subject, but they need to be especially careful about ensuring their edits are verified by reliable sources and writing with as little bias as possible.

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• Avoid or exercise great caution when editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with.
• Avoid linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam).
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Please familiarize yourself with relevant content policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, verifiability of information, and autobiographies. Note that Wikipedia's terms of use require disclosure of your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation.

For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Thank you.

Two things:

• Please make the required disclosures for edits for which you have been paid.
• Please stop directly editing articles in mainspace where you have a COI but instead make edit requests on the Talk pages.

Thanks. Jytdog (talk) 11:28, 29 April 2015 (UTC)

Thank you for the information. I have made all required disclosures on the respective talk pages.Djhuff (talk) 12:02, 29 April 2015 (UTC)

Thank you for not making a lot of drama over this. I think you maybe missed a couple? Some other things:

• there is a sizable chunk of the community that thinks paid editing should be banned, but the community has been unable to come to any consensus over that. If you are not aware of how controversial paid editing is, please let me know, and i can inform you. The core of the issue is the tension between protecting the privacy of editors, and protecting the integrity of Wikipedia.
• since the community has not been able to ban paid editing, it is still permitted. We do our best manage COI but everything is voluntary. So again, I appreciate that you have not created drama.
• Here are things that would be great if you would do going forward.
  • Please declare your COI on your article draft. Disclosure is the key to managing COI.
  • Please submit your articles through the AfC process instead of creating them directly, so they can be reviewed for NPOV before they go live. This kind of review, is the 2nd key element in managing COI.
  • Please consider adding a declaration to your userpage, listing the articles you have created or edited for consideration

Finally, you may want to meet CorporateM, a long-term editor here who often edits for pay, and is very transparent about it.

Thanks again Jytdog (talk) 13:24, 29 April 2015 (UTC)

I've been following the debate about paid editing and when a notice appeared across all of Wikipedia last year about it, that is when I updated my Talk page to state I was a paid editor. I didn't realized I had done it out of order or that I had to sign it, seeing it was my own talk page. :-/

I know the community doesn't like it. I won't make excuses for doing it. I do want to say in my defense that I have always endeavored to create articles that met Wikipedia guidelines. I turn away more requests for articles than I actually write.

I'm happy to work with you on ensuring the pages I've created have disclosure notices and to explain any citations or research. I do respect Wikipedia and the community and while I have been paid for writing, I actually enjoy the process and the research and usually put in more time than what I'm paid for.

I don't intend on creating any new articles for fees for otherwise moving forward. Djhuff (talk) 13:47, 29 April 2015 (UTC)

That all makes sense. You will do as you will; in my view some of your editing is quite good, btw, where you had sufficient sources. (this is the problem with paid editing; quite often there is no article or only a stub b/c the subject really isn't NOTABLE and once an editor enters the game of creating something for pay, they have to do crap editing to create something - they cannot edit well due to lack of good sources) I hope you put your talents to use in WP where you don't have a conflict. anyway, good luck to you. Jytdog (talk) 14:03, 29 April 2015 (UTC)

Thank you for the nice words about some of my editing. Djhuff (talk) 14:07, 29 April 2015 (UTC)

you are welcome! and thanks again for being so reasonable and gracious. those are not common qualities. Jytdog (talk) 14:18, 29 April 2015 (UTC)

Nomination of Michael Stelzner for deletion

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Nomination of Sealevel Systems for deletion

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Nomination of Restaurantware for deletion

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Nomination of InsureMyTrip.com for deletion

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Proposed deletion of Sealevel Systems

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Created by a paid editor who had not properly disclosed themselves at the time of creation (they only properly disclosed on 29 April 2015).

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Am I allowed to weigh in on this decision since you're posting this here or no? I'm happy to make the article better pending feedback. Djhuff (talk) 16:37, 29 April 2015 (UTC)

of course you are. it usually goes better if you acknowledge that you created the article for pay as opposed to someone else bringing it up. but be prepared for some cruel flack - people can be nasty to paid editors. if you conduct yourself there as you have with me, i am hopeful people will respond to you well. good luck. Jytdog (talk) 21:35, 29 April 2015 (UTC)

Thank you. I really appreciate how helpful you've been. Djhuff (talk) 22:00, 29 April 2015 (UTC)

You are welcome! If you have any questions or want to discuss anything going forward, i'll be happy to. (i totally hear you on how hard it can be to figure this place out) Jytdog (talk) 01:28, 30 April 2015 (UTC)

Read your Talk page. You are a true saint. :-D Djhuff (talk) 12:05, 30 April 2015 (UTC)

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