User talk:Tomjefferson1970

Conflict of interest

Hello, Tomjefferson1970. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Magellan Data and Mapping Strategies, you may have a conflict of interest or close connection to the subject.

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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. If you had asked first before making your COI-laden edits for years now, you would be in a less weak position ethically. --Orange Mike | Talk 18:12, 30 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Thank you. --Orange Mike | Talk 18:23, 30 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you Orange Mike for responding to my issue.......

Orange Mike I appreciate your time to educate me on Wikipedia COI issues, policies and how to proceed. I apologize for a perceived personal attack on the person that created the article about my company, but I hope you can at least understand my frustration. From what I understand, the editing that you have done is about as far as I am going to get on any further edits. Because I own the company I have to tread lightly, and from what I can understand, I can't weigh in on much or suggest edits that are positive about my company because that is a COI.

It's just incredibly depressing that when anyone does a wiki search on "Magellan Data and Mapping Strategies", they will find a negative view of my 8 year old company, that has had hundreds of happy clients. That is a fact, we have positive testimonials, but I understand we can't put that in the article. That is why I wish we could change the name of the article to "Magellan Data and Mapping Strategies November 2011 Republican Presidential Primary Poll", but I will stop whining.

I would like to propose one edit, the first reference, the blog post ^ "Why you should ignore Carolyn Goodman's poll". The Sausage Factory. Retrieved 19 November 2011., The girl that posted that blog post confused my company with a company in Nevada called "Magellan Research", their website is http://www.manta.com/c/mt1m3ty/magellan-research. We never did a survey for Carolyn Goodman, a candidate for Las Vegas Mayor. So I respectfully request that be removed since the reference of us doing the survey for Carolyn Goodman in the blog post in inaccurate because another company did it.

Thank you for your attention to this matter, and I apologize for not being more transparent and reading the wiki guidelines more carefully.

Sincerely,

David Flaherty, CEO Magellan Strategies

Tomjefferson1970 (talk) 21:38, 4 September 2013 (UTC)Tomjefferson1970[reply]

Hey, as long as you're fully disclosing your WP:COI, you are more than welcome to offer suggestions for improving the article, on the article's talk page. I was going to ask whether you've got any third-party sources that demonstrate that the Magellan involved with the Nevada poll was not you guys; but then realized that in a situation like this, the onus is on whoever inserted that item to demonstrate the identity of the companies. (Let me add that I always get a special Quaker kick out of doing my best to help people here whose belief systems I find repugnant and destructive, as it shows I am maintaining the requisite neutral point-of-view expected of a good editor [and turning the other cheek, of course].) --Orange Mike | Talk 23:27, 4 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The only link in the "Sausage" article leads to a press release signed by you. What kind of sources can you offer to clarify, since the Magellan article does not talk about the Las Vegas race? --Orange Mike | Talk 23:31, 4 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]