User talk:Vince-OHE

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Do not remove others' remarks on talk pages

Please do not delete or edit legitimate talk page comments, as you did at Laura Branigan. Such edits are disruptive and appear to be vandalism. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. --MCB (talk) 05:25, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia conflict of interest policy

If you have a close connection to some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Laura Branigan, you may have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, edits where there is a conflict of interest, or where such a conflict might reasonably be inferred from the tone of the edit and the proximity of the editor to the subject, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:

1. editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with;
2. participating in deletion discussions about articles related to your organization or its competitors;
3. linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam); and,
4. avoid breaching relevant policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, verifiability of information, and autobiographies.

For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for businesses. For more details about what, exactly, constitutes a conflict of interest, please see our conflict of interest guidelines. Thank you. --MCB (talk) 05:25, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

August 2015

Hello, I'm Jim1138. I noticed that you recently removed some content from Laura Branigan  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, the removed content has been restored. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. Jim1138 (talk) 04:48, 26 August 2015 (UTC)

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to blank out or remove portions of page content, templates, or other materials from Wikipedia, as you did at Laura Branigan, you may be blocked from editing. Warning for repeated unexplained and undiscussed removal of sourced content. See also edit by Special:Contributions/64.134.98.112. Thomas.W ^talk 12:23, 26 August 2015 (UTC)

Your recent edits

Hello and welcome to Wikipedia. When you add content to talk pages and Wikipedia pages that have open discussion (but never when editing articles), please be sure to sign your posts. There are two ways to do this. Either:

1. Add four tildes ( ~~~~ ) at the end of your comment; or
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This will automatically insert a signature with your username or IP address and the time you posted the comment. This information is necessary to allow other editors to easily see who wrote what and when.

Thank you. --SineBot (talk) 12:38, 26 August 2015 (UTC)

Username issue

Welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your username, "Other Half Entertainment", may not comply with our username policy. Please note that you may not use a username that represents the name of a company, group, organization, product, or website. Examples of usernames that are not allowed include "XYZ Company", "MyWidgetsUSA.com", and "Trammel Museum of Art". However, you are invited to use a username that contains such a name if it identifies you personally, such as "Mark at WidgetsUSA", "Jack Smith at the XY Foundation", and "WidgetFan87".

Please also note that Wikipedia does not allow accounts to be shared by multiple people, and that you may not advocate for or promote any company, group, organization, product, or website, regardless of your username. Moreover, I recommend that you read our conflict of interest guideline. If you are a single individual and are willing to contribute to Wikipedia in an unbiased manner, please create a new account or request a change of username, by completing this form, that complies with our username policy. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. Thank you. Jytdog (talk) 12:49, 26 August 2015 (UTC)

• Please also note that it is not OK to share an account. here, someone named "Kathy Golik , President, Other Half Entertainment" wrote their name as the commenter, using this account; here and elsewhere, "Vince Golik, Other Half Entertainment" has written his name under this account. One person, one account. That is policy. Jytdog (talk) 13:22, 26 August 2015 (UTC)

Neil/Jytdog, Understood - have changed and gotten approval of new username. I do want make a post to the Laura Branigan Talk page as recommended by Thomas.W, could someone please unblock so I can make that post? Explains what Thomas was requesting explanation for, and request for temporary protect of the Laura Branigan article so I could work with you all to edit the article properly.

The Laura Branigan Management and Production Company, the Official Voice of the Laura Branigan legacy 16:26, 26 August 2015 (UTC)

August 2015

Your recent editing history at Laura Branigan shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war. To resolve the content dispute, please do not revert or change the edits of others when you get reverted. Instead of reverting, please use the article's talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. The best practice at this stage is to discuss, not edit-war. See BRD for how this is done. If discussions reach an impasse, you can then post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection.

Being involved in an edit war can result in your being blocked from editing—especially if you violate the three-revert rule, which states that an editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Undoing another editor's work—whether in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material each time—counts as a revert. Also keep in mind that while violating the three-revert rule often leads to a block, you can still be blocked for edit warring—even if you don't violate the three-revert rule—should your behavior indicate that you intend to continue reverting repeatedly. Thomas.W ^talk 12:54, 26 August 2015 (UTC)

Conflict of interest in Wikipedia

Hi Vince. I work on conflict of interest issues here in Wikipedia. You have made clear in several places that you work for Laura Branigan's management company. Please know that your account name violates Wikipedia's Username policy per the notice I left for you above. You can expect this account to be blocked shortly. Please do use follow the process in the notice above, to change your username. I suggest something like "Vince@OtherHalf" to make it clear that account belongs to a single person.

I'm giving you notice of our Conflict of Interest guideline and Terms of Use, and will have some comments and requests for you below.

Hello, Other Half Entertainment. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you have an external relationship 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.

If you are very close to a subject, here are some ways you can reduce the risk of problems:

• 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).
• Exercise great caution so that you do not accidentally breach Wikipedia's content policies.

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.

Comments and requests

Wikipedia is a widely-used reference work and managing conflict of interest is essential for ensuring the integrity of Wikipedia and retaining the public's trust in it. As in academia, COI is managed here in two steps - disclosure and a form of peer review. Please note that there is no bar to being part of the Wikipedia community; there are just some things you need to do.

Management of COI in Wikipedia has two steps - disclosure and a form of peer review. You have declared your COI on several Talk pages. I added it permanently to the Talk page of the Branigan article by adding a header. Please also add the disclosure to your user page (which is here: [[User:Other Half Entertainment]). Something simple like "I represent Laura Branigan's management company, Other Half Entertainment" would be great. Would you please take care of that?

The peer review" piece may seem a bit strange to you at first, but if you think about it, it will make sense. In Wikipedia, editors can immediately publish their work, with no intervening publisher or standard peer review -- you can just create an article, click save, and viola there is a new article, and you can go into any article, make changes, click save, and done. No intermediary. What we ask editors who have a COI to do, is a) if you create an article, submit it through the WP:AFC process so it can be reviewed before it publishes. b) And if you want to change content in an existing article on a topic where you have a COI, we ask you to propose content on the Talk page for others to review and implement before it goes live, instead of doing it directly yourself. You can make the edit request easily - and provide notice to the community of your request - by using the "edit request" function as described in the conflict of interest guideline. I made that easy for you by adding a section to the beige box at the top of the Talk page - there is a link at "click here" in that section -- if you click that, the Wikipedia software will automatically format a section in which you can make your request.

Will you please make the COI disclosure on your user page, and agree to follow the peer review processes? Please reply here to keep this thread together. Thanks! Jytdog (talk) 13:03, 26 August 2015 (UTC)

Some other things I strongly urge you to read, other than the links provided above:

• Wikipedia:Wikipedia is in the real world
• Wikipedia:Plain and simple conflict of interest guide
• this article and this statement: Wikipedia:Statement on Wikipedia from participating communications firms Jytdog (talk) 13:07, 26 August 2015 (UTC)

August 2015

Your account has been blocked from editing Wikipedia with this username. This is because your username, Other Half Entertainment, does not meet our username policy.

Your username is the only reason for this block. You are welcome to choose a new username (see below) and continue editing.

A username should not be promotional, related to a "real-world" group or organization, misleading, offensive or disruptive. Also, usernames may not end in the word "bot" unless the account is an approved bot account. 

You are encouraged to choose a new account name that meets our policy guidelines and create the account yourself. Alternatively, if you have already made edits and you wish to keep your existing contributions under a new name, then you may request a change in username by:

1. Adding {{unblock-un|your new username here}} on your user talk page. You should be able to do this even though you are blocked, as you can usually still edit your own talk page. If not, you may wish to contact the blocking administrator by clicking on "E-mail this user" on their talk page.
2. At an administrator's discretion, you may be unblocked for 24 hours to file a request.
3. Please note that you may only request a name that is not already in use, so please check here for a listing of already taken names. The account is created upon acceptance, thus do not try to create the new account before making the request for a name change. For more information, please see Wikipedia:Changing username.

If you think that you were blocked in error, you may appeal this block by adding below this notice the text {{unblock|Your reason here}}, but you should read our guide to appealing blocks first. NeilN ^{talk to me} 13:34, 26 August 2015 (UTC)

This user's request to be unblocked to request a change in username has been reviewed by an administrator, who accepted the request.

Vince-OHE (block log • active blocks • global blocks • autoblocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

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Requested username:

Vince-OHE (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Accept reason:

Following request. PhilKnight (talk) 20:17, 26 August 2015 (UTC)

Note to reviewing admin: The username has already been changed but the block wasn't lifted. Thomas.W ^talk 17:45, 26 August 2015 (UTC)