User talk:Otiker

Ways to improve Dell Software

Hi, I'm Versace1608. Otiker, thanks for creating Dell Software!

I've just tagged the page, using our page curation tools, as having some issues to fix. The bare urls on this page needs to be converted to full text citation.

The tags can be removed by you or another editor once the issues they mention are addressed. If you have questions, you can leave a comment on my talk page. Or, for more editing help, talk to the volunteers at the Teahouse. versace1608 (talk) 02:12, 5 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I have taken the liberty of fixing the bare url situation. However, for future reference, please note that Wikipedia is not a reliable source. Regards,

Derek R Bullamore (talk) 13:29, 5 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Reference errors on 17 November

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Nomination of Thycotic for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Thycotic is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Thycotic (2nd nomination) until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Curb Safe Charmer (talk) 15:47, 17 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

April 2020

Welcome to Wikipedia. It might not have been your intention, but you recently removed maintenance templates from Thycotic. When removing maintenance templates, please be sure to either resolve the problem that the template refers to, or give a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Please see Help:Maintenance template removal for further information on when maintenance templates should or should not be removed. If this was a mistake, don't worry, as your removal of this template has been reverted. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia, and if you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. Curb Safe Charmer (talk) 16:06, 17 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Otiker. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Thycotic, gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, but you have not complied with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. Paid advocacy is a category of conflict of interest (COI) editing that involves being compensated by a person, group, company or organization to use Wikipedia to promote their interests. Undisclosed paid advocacy is prohibited by our policies on neutral point of view and what Wikipedia is not, and is an especially egregious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat SEO.

Paid advocates are very strongly discouraged from direct article editing, and should instead propose changes on the talk page of the article in question if an article exists, and if it does not, from attempting to write an article at all. At best, any proposed article creation should be submitted through the articles for creation process, rather than directly.

Regardless, if you are receiving or expect to receive compensation for your edits, broadly construed, you are required by the Wikimedia Terms of Use to disclose your employer, client and affiliation. You can post such a mandatory disclosure to your user page at User:Otiker. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Otiker|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}. If I am mistaken – you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits – please state that in response to this message. Otherwise, please provide the required disclosure. In either case, do not edit further until you answer this message. When you uploaded the logo you claimed to be the copyright holder? Curb Safe Charmer (talk) 16:09, 17 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

This help request has been answered. If you need more help, you can ask another question on your talk page, contact the responding user(s) directly on their user talk page, or consider visiting the Teahouse.

Hello User:Curb Safe Charmer. If I am an employee of Thycotic, what is the appropriate update I should make to the page to denote that detail? I am not a paid 3rd party Wikipedia consultant. Nate Otiker 16:36, 17 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

You should follow the instructions at WP:PAID. You will also need to read WP:COI and how to make edit requests, as you should avoid directly editing about your company. 331dot (talk) 18:50, 17 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]