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I looked at the articles listed at the Conflict of interest noticeboard with an eye at listing them at AfD. Most of the topics are well covered in press releases, but the Wikipedia articles seem to have been written mostly without the use of those. You are correct to try to avoid using sources that are not "independent of the subject" (such as press releases) as noted at WP:GNG. To improve your sourcing, you may want to use Template:Citation by putting each of your references in <ref>{{Citation |author= |publication-date= |publisher= [[]] |page= |url= |accessdate=April 5, 2013}}</ref>. I also noticed that there is more information in the sources you cited that could be added to the Wikipedia articles. For less well known topics, it is hard to find reliable and independent sources. When you do find such sources, it's best not to leave any meat on the bone. Also, I would be happy to set up User:MiszaBot on your talk page (see my talk page) to archive your talk page. If you set algo = old(1d), your talk page would be archived each day so you would not need to blank it. -- Jreferee (talk) 10:51, 5 April 2013 (UTC)Reply

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Notice of Conflict of interest noticeboard discussion

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Hi Swtechwr. I work on COI issues in Wikipedia, along with my regular editing. Two things - a question and a caution:
First, you said here that you have a relationship with Tricentis. Would you please describe that relationship?
Second, you offered a barter deal with an IP editor. PAID described getting consideration for editing, and barter is a form of consideration. You are of course free to do that sort of thing but please make no mistake that it still falls under the PAID policy and the COI guideline. Does that make sense?
Looking forward to hearing from you. Jytdog (talk) 05:12, 30 March 2017 (UTC)Reply
I just saw that you already withdrew the offer to barter. So much for that! Jytdog (talk) 05:29, 30 March 2017 (UTC)Reply

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You said here that you have some relationship with Tricentis but you have failed to actually disclose it so far and you are continuing to directly edit about the company.

 

Hello Swtechwr. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, and that 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.

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It appears that the association may be that Swtechwr is a software technical writer and has had interaction with the companies and so cannot claim that there is no previous interaction. The goal here is to confirm that you are not being paid to edit on Wikipedia (it's not a jealousy issue, it's understood that paid editors may be editing articles with a motivation to not apply a neutral point of view on an article). So, just to be clear, it would be a good idea to state if you're being paid to edit any articles. I accept that you attempt to edit objectively in all circumstances. 20:49, 27 November 2018 (UTC)

Swtechwr (talk) 04:37, 28 November 2018 (UTC) I am not being directly or indirectly compensated for my edits to Tricentis or to other software testing industry pages. I am not being paid to edit any articles.Reply

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