User talk:Abursey

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Your edits

Please note that Wikipedia is not a venue for the publication of sanitized or subject-approved public relations profiles — it is a venue for as complete as possible coverage of our article topics, including any notable controversies or criticism that the subject may have been involved in. If you have an issue with the way in which a controversy is being handled in a Wikipedia article, you may raise the issue for discussion and resolution on the article's talk page — but you may not arbitrarily deem that a notable controversy about the person or organization gets completely swept under the rug or goes completely unacknowledged on here. Under our conflict of interest policy, in fact, you really shouldn't be editing articles related to the Ontario Ombudsman at all, except to correct strictly factual errors. We strive to be fair to our article subjects, absolutely, but it is not our job to be a venue for the organization to publish its own "scrubbed completely clean of any controversies or criticism whatsoever" content about itself, or for any of the organization's staff to publish what amounts to a thinly veiled rewrite of their own résumé, to the exclusion of anything that other people have said or published about them. Our mandate here includes covering all aspects of an article topic, including notable controversies or criticisms. Bearcat (talk) 22:10, 18 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Conflict of Interest concerns: Ontario Ombudsman, Andre Marin

Hello Abursey,

Until very recently, you used the same handle on Wikipedia as you did on other social media and you publicly disclose your direct employee/employer relationship with the subject of the pages you are editing: Ontario Ombudsman and Andre Marin. You also publicly disclose that you manage his communications. I wanted to draw your attention to Wikipedia: Conflict of interest policy. I’ve included portions I believe apply to you in these two cases (paid advocacy, political):

"While editing Wikipedia, an editor's primary role is to be a Wikipedian. Any external relationship (any secondary role) may undermine that primary role, and when it does undermine it, or could reasonably be said to undermine it, that person has a conflict of interest.

Paid advocacy, public relations, and marketing

Paid advocacy – that is, being paid to promote something or someone on Wikipedia – is a subset of paid editing. Sue Gardner, executive director of theWikimedia Foundation, wrote in October 2013 that the Foundation regards paid advocacy as a "black hat" practice that "violates the core principles that have made Wikipedia so valuable for so many people."

If the following applies to you:

you are receiving, or expect to receive, monetary or other benefits or considerations from editing Wikipedia as a representative of an organization (as an employee or contractor; as an employee or contractor of a firm hired by that organization for public-relations purposes; as owner, officer or other stakeholder; or by having some other form of close financial relationship with a topic you wish to write about), then you are very strongly discouraged from directly editing Wikipedia in areas where those external relationships could reasonably be said to undermine your ability to remain neutral. If you have a financial connection to a topic – including, but not limited to, as an owner, employee, contractor or other stakeholder – you are advised to refrain from editing affected articles directly. ...

The writing of "puff pieces" and advertisements is prohibited.

Political

Editors should not edit articles in which they have a political conflict of interest. Examples:

Government employees should not edit articles about their agencies, government, or political party, or articles about their political opponents, opposition groups, or controversial political topics, with the intent to slant or spin an article in a manner that is politically advantageous to their employer." I hope this is of some assistance. Thissilladia (talk) 21:06, 26 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

While this is true, the remedy is not to pile on original research with a contrary point of view. Stick to what the sources actually say. Otherwise, your single-purpose account may appear to be for an "unsuitable agenda". InedibleHulk (talk) 22:59, 28 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hi,

This is to let you know that I have put the following on the Conflict of interest/Noticeboard page:

Ontario Ombudsman and Andre Marin pages are edited and maintained by two of the subject's employees, his communications director Eljadubya and his digital/social media person Abursey. Both use the same username on other social media and links directly to their profiles that name them, place of work and positions at Ontario Ombudsman. According to the protocol as I understood it, I first informed them of my COI concerns with as it pertains to paid communications and to political relationships. I will also inform each, according to protocol, that I have placed this here. I am new to Wiki and had not planned on spending all my time on these two sites, so if any help is available, that would be greatly appreciated. Thissilladia (talk) 02:13, 1 March 2015 (UTC)

Thissilladia (talk) 02:25, 1 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Conflict of interest warning

Hello, Abursey. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you are affiliated 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.

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If you have not read WP:COI please do so. Also, please see the article Conflict-of-interest editing on Wikipedia - conflicted editing often bounces back to the public embarrassment of people who do it. Good luck! Jytdog (talk) 02:44, 1 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Jytdog. Thanks for your note. I'm not a frequent editor and I appreciate any tips, links, etc, you can share. In the interest of transparency, earlier today I reached out to an editor about this same topic. As I noted, I explained my affiliation with the office, and would like to propose factual changes to the page to correct inaccuracies; I will post them on my User page for editors to examine and determine if they meet Wiki's community standards. (I have seen this done by other users and it seemed to be an accepted way to handle this sort of situation.) Please let me know if you think this isn't an appropriate course of action. I really appreciate any advice or suggestions you can give me. Thanks again. Abursey (talk) 03:16, 1 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The best place to post proposed edits is on the article Talk page. Good luck! Jytdog (talk) 03:26, 1 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Makes sense to me. Thanks for the quick response. I'll do that going forward. Abursey (talk) 03:27, 1 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]