User talk:Cracksmith

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Cracksmith. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page DrinkBox Studios, 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 organizations for more information. We ask that you:

• avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization or competitors;
• propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the {{request edit}} template);
• disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see Wikipedia:Conflict of interest#How to disclose a COI);
• avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see WP:Spam);
• do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

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, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. IceWelder [✉] 20:33, 11 May 2021 (UTC)

May 2021

Your recent editing history at DrinkBox Studios shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war; that means that you are repeatedly changing content back to how you think it should be, when you have seen that other editors disagree. To resolve the content dispute, please do not revert or change the edits of others when you are reverted. Instead of reverting, please use the 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 the bold, revert, discuss cycle 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 you 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 do not violate the three-revert rule—should your behavior indicate that you intend to continue reverting repeatedly. Firefangledfeathers (talk) 14:45, 12 May 2021 (UTC)

I am happy to discuss the merits of your proposed changes at Talk:DrinkBox Studios. Please address your COI and make the case for your changes before you revert again. Firefangledfeathers (talk) 14:46, 12 May 2021 (UTC)

Hello. Can someone explain what the specific Conflict of Interest here is? My name is Graham Smith, I am an owner of Drinkbox Studios, and I hold the copyright for the name. The naming standard for the company has changed internally to remove the uppercase B from "Box", and Wikipedia is using the old incorrect standard. As the copyright holder, I am the authority on this change, and so I believe I should be able to update wikipedia to reflect the new standard. I would also like the ability to make this change to the page title, which currently appears unavailable to me. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 107.179.162.98 (talk) 13:07, 13 May 2021 (UTC)

Hi Graham! I encourage you to read the full COI guideline, but here's a relevant snippet:

An actual COI exists when an editor has a COI with respect to a certain judgment and is in a position where the judgment must be exercised. Example: A business owner has an actual COI if he edits articles and engages in discussions about that business.

As the guidelines suggest, other editors (including me!) would be happy to help you improve the article on your company. Since Wikipedia requires verifiability and relies on what's published in reliable sources, I can work on changing the capitalization of the company if you know of any news/magazine/book/etc. coverage that mentions the name change. Firefangledfeathers (talk) 13:24, 13 May 2021 (UTC)

Hello Firefangledfeathers Firefangledfeathers. I find it very strange that the owner of a trademark cannot make changes around that trademark to wikipedia, but if you're able to make the change for me that would be great. As I noted in my comments when changing the Drinkbox Studios page last week, we have now re-launched the corporate website which includes (in addition to many other changes) the new capitalization of Drinkbox on all pages. This is most noticable on the about page. https://www.drinkboxstudios.com/about . I would expect this should be enough to quell any objections to also making this change on wikipedia, but please let me know if you think otherwise. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cracksmith (talk • contribs) 17:28, 20 May 2021 (UTC)

Hi Graham, thanks for the update. I think this is a reasonable enough request, though I want to prepare you for the possibility that it will be opposed. At Talk:DrinkBox Studios, please click New Section at the top of the page. The Subject/headline might be something like "Name change". In the main editing box, paste the following and fill in the relevant areas:

{{request edit}}
* Specific text to be added or removed: ADD TEXT HERE
* Reason for the change: ADD TEXT HERE
* References supporting change: ADD URL AT LEAST
~~~~

More info on making such requests is at [[Template:Request edit]. The four tildes at the bottom are important, as that's how we sign our posts on talk pages. Please do so any time you comment, as it clarifies who's talking and will automatically notify any users you link to. Firefangledfeathers (talk) 18:04, 20 May 2021 (UTC)

I saw the changes were made by someone today. Thank you very much for the help with this Firefangledfeathers