User talk:Bage4416

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Hello, Bage4416, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article. Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

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COI

You have an obvious conflict of interest, please don't write about yourself, your friends or relatives and read the guidance below:

When you write about a person, you must provide independent verifiable sources to enable us to verify the facts and show that they meet the notability guidelines. Sources that are not acceptable include those linked to the person or an associated organisation, press releases, YouTube, IMDB, social media and other sites that can be self-edited, blogs, websites of unknown or non-reliable provenance, and sites that are just reporting what the person claims or interviewing them. Note that references should be in-line so we can tell what fact each is supporting, and should not be bare urls.
You must write in a non-promotional tone. Articles must be neutral and encyclopaedic, with verifiable facts, not opinions or reviews.
There shouldn't be any url links in the article, only in the "References" or "External links" sections.
You must not copy text from elsewhere. Copyrighted text is not allowed in Wikipedia, as outlined in this policy. That applies even to pages created by you or your organisation, unless they state clearly and explicitly that the text is public domain. We require that text posted here can be used, modified and distributed for any purpose, including commercial; text is considered to be copyright unless explicitly stated otherwise. There are ways to donate copyrighted text to Wikipedia, as described here; please note that simply asserting on the talk page that you are the owner of the copyright, or you have permission to use the text, isn't sufficient.

Before attempting to write an article again, please make sure that the topic meets the notability criteria linked above, and check that you can find independent third party sources. Also read Your first article. If you are writing about yourself, or someone you know as a friend, colleague, client, employer or relative, you have a conflict of interest, and you must disclose the nature of that COI. Jimfbleak - talk to me? 09:23, 20 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks for message. NOTWEBHOST is the easy bit, your user page is for you to tell us about your activities on Wikipedia, not to write biographies or anything else.

A minor point with the draft is that it should be titled with his name, not your user name.

I've already posted guidance above, so I guess you want to know why I found it non-compliant.

Many of your references (too many of which had bare urls) were not independent third-party sources as we require here, but were his own or Nvidia pages, or just listed irrelevant stuff like his patents or citations. We need to know what independent sources say about him, not what he or Nvidia say about him. Some of your text was unsourced, including the first para of Career, and some of your refs don't confirm what you have said. For example, the paragraph beginning Erik [sic] first assigned role was to design and architect... is entirely unsupported by its reference, which just describes his own patent, doesn't mention his career.
He may well be notable, but having patents or writing papers is what a researcher does, the number of these is irrelevant to notability. Your text was a kitchen sink approach he did this... then he did that. Awards can help, although I'm not sure why patents count as an award or honour in any real sense. The UBC award is from his alma mater, not sure what weight that carries if it's just an in-house honour.

Calling him "Erik" throughout is unencyclopaedic and looks non-neutral. Although I've seen worse, some of your text is clearly promotional, for example Erik's hardware T&L unit played a critical role in the success of the GeForce 256 is a claim sourced only to an Nvidia blog, not an independent source.

I didn't do a full check, but there is clearly some copyright violation, Erik co-architected the first GPU, the GeForce 256... is almost verbatim from a source marked UBC Copyright, I suspect there may be other close paraphrasing.

I get the impression that you wrote this backwards, creating the text and then shoe-horning random refs in. Find proper refs as linked above first. As to your COI, you should mention it on the talk page of the draft if you recreate, Jimfbleak - talk to me? 09:23, 21 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]