User talk:Robertroath

September 2023

Thanks for contributing to the article Auction Technology Group. However, one of Wikipedia's core policies is that contributions must be verifiable through reliable sources, preferably using inline citations. Please help by adding more sources to the article you edited, and/or by clarifying how the sources already given support the claims (see here for how to do inline referencing). If you need further help, you can look at Help:Menu/Editing Wikipedia, or ask at the Teahouse, or just ask me. Thank you. Dormskirk (talk) 22:46, 25 September 2023 (UTC)

Sorry. I wasn't sure how to properly site the source. That is why I put where I got it from in the edit comments. Let me check out those articles and see if I can correct this. I need to do more changes to this page (I'm their technical SEO) https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertroath/. I meant no harm here. I was working on a wider Google entity project to link ATG to all of its sites. We will be reworking all of the auction sites footers to state the subsidiary sites as well. Thanks for the hints. I'll try and do better. This is my first time trying to tackle a Wikipedia page. Robertroath (talk) 23:16, 25 September 2023 (UTC)

Hi - I have tidied up what you had already added. Dormskirk (talk) 23:20, 25 September 2023 (UTC)

Thanks a ton. Robertroath (talk) 23:24, 25 September 2023 (UTC)

Ok read that citations page. If I am understanding this correct I just need to place the ref after the sitelinks?

Example:

<a href= https://www.proxibid.com> Proxibid </a>  ?

That looks like that would work. Robertroath (talk) 23:23, 25 September 2023 (UTC)

References

Hi - You cannot include external links in the article per WP:ELNO. Dormskirk (talk) 23:51, 25 September 2023 (UTC)

Hello, Robertroath. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Auction Technology Group, 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, clients, or competitors;
• propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the {{edit COI}} 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 Wikipedia:Spam § External link spamming);
• 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. Dormskirk (talk) 23:20, 25 September 2023 (UTC)

Oh wow. I had no idea that you couldn't edit your companies own content. I guess I will look at the COI template to see about finding some way to edit this. It is ancient and no longer reflects the current organization. I placed the links in the article to show where to find these sites to support that these were a part of ATG. But like I said I will have to work it from the angle you have specified. Robertroath (talk) 23:30, 25 September 2023 (UTC)

Essentially, what you need to do is propose changes at the article talk page. Thanks, Dormskirk (talk) 23:51, 25 September 2023 (UTC)

Got ya. Thanks for all your help. Robertroath (talk) 00:01, 26 September 2023 (UTC)

wow, so you removed all of the edits. wow.. 159.118.137.206 (talk) 00:09, 26 September 2023 (UTC)