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== Runza ==

Hello.  I am seeing a probable COI edit on an article that I'm watching, [[Runza]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Runza&type=revision&diff=1079285329&oldid=1077775300 here].  Could someone with experience in such matters contact the editor please?  I would do it myself, but I'm not familiar with the procedure and I'm a bit pressed for time at the moment.  P.S. A related article that the editor has not changed, so far anyway, is [[Runza (restaurant)]].  Thanks.  <span style="font-family: cursive;">— [[User:Mudwater|Mudwater]]<small><sup> ([[User talk:Mudwater|Talk]])</sup></small></span> 14:40, 26 March 2022 (UTC)
:Thank you. <span style="font-family: cursive;">— [[User:Mudwater|Mudwater]]<small><sup> ([[User talk:Mudwater|Talk]])</sup></small></span> 17:08, 26 March 2022 (UTC)
:[[User:@|@@]]Midwestern [[Special:Contributions/89.199.101.252|89.199.101.252]] ([[User talk:89.199.101.252|talk]]) 05:30, 14 April 2023 (UTC)

== Does anyone know what happened with Saudi Arabia trying to edit Wikipedia? ==

I'm looking into the issue but I can't find any sources/articles on it here, or any centralized discussion of the whole problem. Does anyone know where I can find this? [[Special:Contributions/35.2.38.93|35.2.38.93]] ([[User talk:35.2.38.93|talk]]) 15:45, 17 April 2023 (UTC)
:This board is for discussion about the operation of the COI noticeboard. Requests for help should be made at the [[WP:HD|Help Desk]]. [[User:331dot|331dot]] ([[User talk:331dot|talk]]) 18:48, 17 April 2023 (UTC)

== Presentation on COI ==

I've issued a public invitation to an online meeting where I will give a presentation on conflict of interests. That invitation was posted within one of the investigation discussions and so that it's not lost to page watchers, I thought I'd post it on this talk page.

The New Zealand Wiki community has its monthly online meeting later today. Anyone can join in and we usually have a few Australians turn up, i.e. it's not just a domestic meeting, with overseas editors most welcome. I'll be talking about COI editing so that we as a community learn something from the investigation that's going on, with a goal of achieving broader understanding of how to manage COIs. Anyone watching this page is most welcome to join in: [[Wikipedia:Meetup/Aotearoa New Zealand Online/49#Conflict of interest editing]]. I've asked [[User:Ambrosia10|the organiser]] to be on the programme in second slot so that there's an approximate time available for those who are only interested in this topic; tune in from 12:15 h [[Time in New Zealand|NZT]], which is UTC+12:00. [https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20240526T001500&p1=264 Time zone conversion link] for your convenience. '''[[User:Schwede66|<span style="color: #000000;">Schwede</span>]][[User talk:Schwede66|<span style="color: #FF4500;">66</span>]]''' 20:32, 25 May 2024 (UTC)

:Here's a [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1pC5WOWv25CObVrIXIcJSn4coweviWdamNUr7V2f2jmQ/edit?usp=sharing link to the presentation]; feel free to use the presentation and modify it as you see fit. It went well; there was a healthy amount of interest. The editors who spoke gave feedback like "I've learned a lot", "I'm definitely going to add conflict of interest statements to my user page", or "that was really useful, thank you". '''[[User:Schwede66|<span style="color: #000000;">Schwede</span>]][[User talk:Schwede66|<span style="color: #FF4500;">66</span>]]''' 05:02, 26 May 2024 (UTC)

== Discussion of potential interest ==

Editors who read this noticeboard may be interested in the discussion at [[Wikipedia:Village pump (miscellaneous)#Performing a random pages test on business articles]], regarding how to best obtain a random sample of Wikipedia articles on companies for the purposes of assessing problems like undisclosed COI editing. – [[User:Teratix|Tera]]'''[[User talk:Teratix|tix]]''' [[Special:Contributions/Teratix|₵]] 16:15, 23 July 2024 (UTC)

== Unclear starter-template output ==

When filing a new COI report using the "To begin a new discussion, enter the name of the relevant article below:" item, the user is given [[Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard/Template]] as the skeleton. It has bullet-entries:
{{box|
* <nowiki>{{pagelinks|article name}}</nowiki>
* <nowiki>{{userlinks|username}}</nowiki>
}}
Those seem pretty clear to the filer how and where to enter the relevant details. But the results of those templates when published are:
{{box|
* {{pagelinks|article name}}
* {{userlinks|username}}
}}
The outputs are very similar, but the concepts are quite different. Unless I recognize the differential link-sets, or the article name and username themselves, it's not clear which entry is for an article and which is for the involved user. Articles could be named for a person and editors could have non-person names, and there are cases where unrelated users have the same username as articles. I think it would be clearer if either each bullet-entry were tagged with what it is:
{{box|
* Article: {{pagelinks|article name}}
* User: {{userlinks|username}}
}}
or the article(s) vs user(s) were in separately-identified lists:
{{box|
* Article(s):
** {{pagelinks|article name}}
* User(s):
** {{userlinks|username}}
}}
I am only an occasional user of COIN, which makes this unclarity more noticeable to me but I also don't want to BOLDly change a tool that regulars might be expected to be a certain way. Thoughts? [[User:DMacks|DMacks]] ([[User talk:DMacks|talk]]) 18:09, 3 August 2024 (UTC)

:Sounds like a reasonable improvement to me. (I also have the nagging half-memory that there are other noticeboards that use a similar format that might also be improved in the same way...) [[User:ElKevbo|ElKevbo]] ([[User talk:ElKevbo|talk]]) 18:57, 3 August 2024 (UTC)
::Preference among the two approaches? Either one completely solves my concern, so I don't have a preference. I can see pros and cons of both, in terms of readability, compactness, consistency with other notice-boards, etc. [[User:DMacks|DMacks]] ([[User talk:DMacks|talk]]) 19:51, 10 August 2024 (UTC)

== Semi-protected edit request on 6 August 2024 ==

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* {{pagelinks|Jake Braun}}
* {{userlinks|97.119.137.18}}
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This article was tagged with [[Wikipedia:Autobiography]] because of extensive edits by the subject. The subject attempted to remove the tag and had their account blocked indefinitely. See the COI noticeboard discussion at  [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest/Noticeboard/Archive_164#Cambridge_Global_and_Jake_Braun Cambridge Global and Jake Braun] and the user discussion at [[User_talk:Spartaneditor]]. An IP address user has again attempted to remove the tag.

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