User talk:John Cobra Walker

Managing a conflict of interest[edit]

Hello, John Cobra Walker. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page High Performance Computing Modernization Program, 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:

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Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Your edit summaries, such as "The edit was crafted and approved by the Associate Director for Networking at HPCMP", suggest you have a conflict of interest. In that case, please do not edit this article Tacyarg (talk) 20:02, 25 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Tacyarg, I am an independent consultant and work for an unrelated firm. As an expert in supercomputing, I was dismayed by the out of date and inaccurate information on the HPCMP page. Supercomputing is a very narrow discipline with very few people in the country that have the knowledge necessary to offer accurate improvements to what has been written. For this reason, I feel I am exactly the type of person that is best positioned to help rectify disinformation on the page. I do not believe that i have a COI and I am not being paid to make changes. Because at times, the nature of the information needs to be further clarified, I have at times asked other experts to verify what I am writing. If that is not allowed, I can cease doing that. However, I believe the information that is now on the page is vastly improved in terms of its currency, accuracy and relevance. I hope this is acceptable.

Best,

John John Cobra Walker (talk) 12:54, 26 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I also notice that you have removed all my edits. Why should that be allowed when you have sent the page back to its incorrect view with wrong information? All my work to update it appropriately has been lost. Please explain this and explain why it makes sense to have the wrong information or out-of-date information displayed. You have prevented an attempt to make the information actually representative of the program as it exists in 2022 -- not 2017. John Cobra Walker (talk) 12:59, 26 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

June 2022[edit]

Thank you for your contributions. It seems that you may have added public domain content to one or more Wikipedia articles, such as High Performance Computing Modernization Program. You are welcome to import appropriate public domain content to articles, but in order to meet the Wikipedia guideline on plagiarism, such content must be fully attributed. This requires not only acknowledging the source, but acknowledging that the source is copied. There are several methods to do this described at Wikipedia:Plagiarism#Public-domain sources, including the usage of an attribution template. Please make sure that any public domain content you have already imported is fully attributed. Thank you. — Diannaa (talk) 15:30, 11 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I am unsure what you are referring to. I have updated various text components of the HPCMP page by composing off-line and then pasting into the page. Is that what you mean? I am not aware of using any public domain content as you put it. If you can point me to the area, I can try to remedy. I am knowledgeable in the HPC domain through years of work in this field. John Cobra Walker (talk) 11:38, 14 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]