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Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) ( Talk) 19:18, 25 March 2015 (UTC)Hi Caprockranger. I work on conflict of interest (COI) issues here in Wikipedia. All your edits to date have been about Nautilus Productions and are somewhat promotional with regard to Rick Allen. This makes your account what we call a "single purpose account" (please see WP:SPA) I'm giving you notice of our Conflict of Interest guideline and Terms of Use, and will have some questions for you below.
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While I am not asking you to disclose your identity (anonymity is strictly protecting by out WP:OUTING policy) would you please disclose if you have some relationship with Nautilus Productions? You can answer how ever you wish, but if you have some relationship with Nautilus - especially if you work for or own Nautilus, you must disclose that per the Terms of Use. (disclosing now is OK - editors with conflicts of interest are part of the community). 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. Thanks! Jytdog ( talk) 04:57, 29 May 2015 (UTC)
Caprockranger I've now gone through the Nautilus Productions article and you have actually made a reasonable job of avoiding being promotional. I've culled one sentence that I think needs an independent source and removed the word 'exclusive' from 'licensor' as that may be interesting to a marketing department but not to an encyclopedia. Now, here's my declaration: I'm happily retired and have no financial interest in anything diving-related. Nevertheless, I have worked for a PR & marketing company and have some understanding of "promotion". I have also been diving for around 40 years and instructing at the highest level for over 20 years. Not to mention editing Wikipedia for 7 years (and you can check the articles I've taken to FA/GA if you're interested). So this anonymous moron feels a certain entitlement to "edit happily away". I welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, particularly your expertise in underwater videography; we need experts to add content, but you must ensure that the reason you contribute is to improve the encyclopedia by using your expertise as generally as you can. You've still got a lot to learn about Wikipedia editing - you've found quality sources but need to quote them in full; and your logo would have been deleted at some point if I hadn't supplied a fair use rationale for it. On the other hand, I've seen you supply good content to multiple articles and I encourage you to do more. It's fair to say that other editors will give a little more leeway to editors writing about themselves if they already have made a reputation for also writing about lots of other topics. I wish you well and hope you enjoy editing here. Cheers -- RexxS ( talk) 19:32, 29 May 2015 (UTC)
Nice work RexxS. Finally couple of words for you Caprockranger. Generally, commenting negatively about other editors gets you no where - we pretty explicit rules about "commenting on content, not contributors" especially on article talk pages. This discussion, here on your Talk page, has been about your COI, and that is a special (and rare) kind of discussion here. So again - I recommend you stop sniping at other editors - it is a bad foot to get off on, and will lead to other people not liking you, and if you keep going, will get you thrown out of here. As a conflicted editor, you will need other people to want to work with you, since you cannot directly edit the article about your company anymore. Anyway, good luck, and thanks again for talking. Jytdog ( talk) 22:33, 29 May 2015 (UTC)
Hi Caprockranger. Just want to make sure you are aware that we have a policy against editing under more than one account here, which we call "Sockpuppeting". The policy is here: WP:SOCK. I am writing this to you because this edit appears to me, to have been made by you under a different account. I am not going to bring a case at WP:SPI since you are pretty new here, and if this was you, you may not have been aware of that policy. Best regards Jytdog ( talk) 11:34, 16 June 2015 (UTC)
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About this - It is disgusting that you tried to use a Wikipedia article to publicize your lawsuit. Never. Do. That. Again. We have discussed COI issues in the past - this went way over the line. The next time you do this I will seek a significant block against you, and if you continue, those blocks will be escalated until you are banned from Wikipedia. Please reply and acknowledge this . If you don't acknowledge this or just delete it I will initiate action against you now, and not wait for next time (which I hope does not come). Jytdog ( talk) 07:45, 14 March 2016 (UTC)
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