User talk:Mpbailey

August 2019

Please do not add or change content, as you did at PDF/VT, without citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. David Biddulph (talk) 16:53, 5 August 2019 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Mpbailey. 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 COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the COI guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:

• avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, company, organization or competitors;
• propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the {{request edit}} template);
• disclose your COI when discussing affected articles (see WP:DISCLOSE);
• 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 must 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 WP:PAID).

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. GermanJoe (talk) 17:51, 5 August 2019 (UTC)

Response from Mpbailey

Thanks for the pointers GermanJoe; it's probably pretty obvious that I'm a newbie here. You'll see that I've now added personal info on my user page.

Yes, I work on the PDF standard in ISO, but I don't have any skin in the game on the issue raised. I care that technical standards are useful, are well enough written to be implemented robustly and interoperably by different teams so their solutions will work together without needing those teams to talk directly, and I care that people don't have to jump through hoops to licence stuff to do that implementation. I don't really care which body develops the standard, or if PDF happens to meet the requirements of the current Wikipedia open standard page. I was just pointing out that PDF 2.0 is as good a match for that definition as PNG, at least in its incarnation as ISO/IEC 15948:2004, which is cited as an example on the open standards page. Mpbailey (talk) 15:28, 2 February 2021 (UTC)