User talk:MikeTheWatchGuy

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Thoughtful[edit]

Five years between edits-thats impressive! What have you been doing with your time!?. Thanks for the link- I am pondering on the best way to keep the information and keep with in WP:COI. I think I have a soulution that won't cause an edit war. I just need a coffee first.--ClemRutter (talk) 07:16, 20 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Managing a conflict of interest[edit]

Hello, MikeTheWatchGuy. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, 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 please note that editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. MrOllie (talk) 16:13, 25 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I have no idea how to answer messages that arrive in my email via Wikipedia. Hopefully I'm not breaking some rule or guideline that will get me in more trouble.

I have read your message, read the guidelines and I don't see the conflict you're seeing.

I'm not advertising, promoting. I have zero financial involvement with PySimpleGUI. It makes no money, I make no money from it. I saw a list of GUI frameworks. I listed an additional framework in a factual, non-promoting, non-advertising, and I certainly made no comparisons not disparaging remarks about other similar software. My entry entry was in line with the other entries I read on the page. Where's the conflict? I mentioned nothing about me, my family, friends.

Is the problem that I'm a contributor to the project? All of the other packages listed on the page were submitted by people other than project contributors?

I've added no links to any websites.

Maybe you can discuss further the specifics of the words that I wrote that were outside the bounds of this particular page of information. Additionally, can you point out another listing that this description could be worded in a similar way as to be in compliance?

Or, is the problem simply me? Personally?

If someone else were to post this entry you wouldn't have a problem with it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by MikeTheWatchGuy (talk • contribs)

COIs as Wikipedia recognizes them are not exclusively financial. You wrote this software, so naturally you're proud of it and you want to share it with others - but Wikipedia isn't a place to add links to software you wrote. As to the specific case of List of Python software, I would object even if someone else added it. That article is a list of things with existing Wikipedia articles - the entry you're adding has no corresponding Wikipedia article. - MrOllie (talk) 20:45, 25 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Just to make sure I have this straight. Because I'm a contributor to this software, I'm illegible for suggesting it be added to a list of Python software. Furthermore, if any other individual were to ask to add this software, you would also object. You consider this software, the mention of this software, is something being advertised? Is it the wording of the entry that is advertising? Is it the LGPL3 open source project that makes it advertising? Or is it the specific package, PySimpleGUI, that by itself is an advertisement, of itself. In other words, the name PySimpleGUI is an advertisement. The word try, sell, buy isn't in there. I'm honestly and thoroughly trying to find the logical reason for the objection of a conflict of interest. Everyone else on this list was added by a non-contributor? That's the rule? I see the final objection of the Wikipedia page not yet existing. If that must be present then I can understand that. But that was a closing end-tag, not the actual reasoning for Conflict of Interest.