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I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at Draft:FlexLink. Thanks! Theroadislong (talk) 15:02, 3 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Ok but I believe you are wrong and also you did not provide a solution to what you believe the problem is. Lifeatthesharpend (talk) 15:54, 3 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
You will find that I am right, Wikipedia is NOT for merely providing information. A Wikipedia article about an organisation must summarize what independent reliable sources with significant coverage have chosen on their own to say about them, showing how it meets Wikipedia's special definition of a notable company. Wikipedia has no interest in what you want to say about it only in what others unaffiliated with the business choose to say about it. Theroadislong (talk) 16:54, 3 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
It is important to keep in mind that "FlexLink" is not an organization or a company or an entity. FlexLink is like ethernet, WiFi and Fibre Channel. (yes Fibre is spelled correctly). FlexLink describes a RF waveform , protocol and MAC just like WiFi or Ethernet. Feel free to make the same comments about those protocols as well. Also if you are reviewing these try to be less hostile and try to help contributor be better. It is not helpful to just complain. As a lead engineer I get complaints about things people dont like all the time. That does everyone no good. What does help is giving suggestions on how to fix the issue and giving reasons why you think something is not correct. Lifeatthesharpend (talk) 23:21, 3 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Wikipedia is NOT for merely providing information.

A Wikipedia article summarizes what independent reliable sources with significant coverage have chosen on their own to say about a topic showing how they meet the special Wikipedia definition of notability. Your draft has zero sources so has zero chance of being accepted. Please aslo answer the question below before editing further. Theroadislong (talk) 23:24, 3 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The article is not ready for publishing and will have proper references. Lifeatthesharpend (talk) 23:33, 3 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I have stated this below. FlexLink is a protocol. There is no money behind it. No one is getting paid (currently) and I do not know if anyone will ever get paid. FlexLink is like WiFi and Ethernet and is just a name of a waveform, protocol. I also understand there needs to be reliable sources and references. I'm not currently editing them. What, in your opinion, would you consider a reliable source? Lifeatthesharpend (talk) 23:38, 3 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Paid?

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What is your connection to FlexLink? If in any way paid, see disclosure requirement at WP:PAID. David notMD (talk) 17:56, 3 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It is important to keep in mind that "FlexLink" is not an organization or a company or an entity. There is zero money associated with it. FlexLink is like ethernet, WiFi, LTE, 5G, 4G and Fibre Channel. FlexLink is a name of a waveform and describes an OFDM RF waveform, protocol and MAC just like WiFi or Ethernet. My involvement is that I am an engineer trying to implement the protocol and have part of my efforts out as an open source project and I can contact the Author of the specification directly. Also, he is not getting paid or receiving any money for this protocol. It will be included in his next edition of his book. The waveform known as FlexLink is open sourced. It is similar to DJI Ocusync used on their drone video link. The main difference is one is developed from the ground up as open source. I hope this helps. Lifeatthesharpend (talk) 23:31, 3 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I did find a company named FlexLink that has something to do with automated machines. FlexLink that I'm writing about has nothing to do with that company or anything they do.
Possibly to de-conflict with that company name the article can be named FlexLink Waveform or FlexLink Protocol. If you have suggestions please do suggest. Lifeatthesharpend (talk) 00:06, 4 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Here are a couple of links:
https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/content/?keywords=flexlink%20DSP&origin=GLOBAL_SEARCH_HEADER&sid=%3B-t
https://www.dsponlineconference.com/session/FlexLink_a_Practical_OFDM_Datalink_Introduction_and_Python_Demonstrations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gm4g5sfN5S4
https://github.com/koliberEng/flexLinkPhyTX
https://github.com/koliberEng/flexLinkSpecification Lifeatthesharpend (talk) 00:19, 4 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
presentation slide of the video link: https://s3.amazonaws.com/embeddedonlineconference/eoc/sessions_slides/FlexLink_a_Practical_OFDM_Datalink_Introduction_and_Python_Demonstrations.pdf Lifeatthesharpend (talk) 00:35, 4 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
As "an engineer trying to implement the protocol" you have a clear conflict of interest and NONE of the given references are reliable or independent. Theroadislong (talk) 07:41, 4 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Again, you are not being helpful only stating an opinion without and source or reason and being hostile. Lifeatthesharpend (talk) 08:22, 4 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Managing a conflict of interest

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Information icon Hello, Lifeatthesharpend. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for article subjects for more information. We ask that you:

In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicizing, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Theroadislong (talk) 08:36, 4 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your response. To be clear the article is not about myself, my organization, or my company. This is about a new article. Engineers have worked on Ethernet, Wifi, 3GPP, LTE, 5G, 4G, Fibre channel. We find those articles on Wikipedia. From my perspective any reference that is not from the specification, normally ratified by a group of engineers, is opinion from someone implementing the the protocol. All of those are up for interpretation since they are nothing more than someones vision of how they should be implemented. Since most of those entries are about protocols that have been around for many years there is alot of data supporting those standards and alot of experts in the field that are quoted. The point is mute since the article draft has been deleted. Lifeatthesharpend (talk) 08:53, 4 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
You can request undeletion here Wikipedia:Requests for undeletion. Theroadislong (talk) 12:16, 4 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the info, I think I will let the dead dog lay for a bit. After a bit of searching there is a company called FlexLink and a satellite communication system called FlexLink. Both of those would need to be de-conflicted also the RF-Flexlink (which I'm referring to in the article "FlexLink") may just go the way of Fibre Channel (mainly being replaced and overcome by Ethernet), Wifi came out with a new long range standard 802.11ah, it has very similar properties to the RF-FlexLink. The OFDM parameters are very similar. WiFi and Ethernet both have way to much inertia to be displaced. RF-FlexLink is meant to be a point-to-point OFDM waveform datalink for long range communications. Lifeatthesharpend (talk) 14:02, 4 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]