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Hey User:WereSpielChequers thanks for the welcome, and glad to be here! I'd already figured out that shortcut for linking articles but didn't know about the images, thanks for that!

Prospectiveperspectives (talk) 10:19, 1 November 2017 (UTC)

Glad you found part of that useful! ϢereSpielChequers 14:49, 1 November 2017 (UTC)

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Notice of Conflict of interest noticeboard discussion

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard regarding a possible conflict of interest incident with which you may be involved. The thread is Path Solutions. Thank you. ☆ Bri (talk) 01:09, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

Thanks Bri and hopefully I can help clear this up. I had talked with User:Jo-Jo_Eumerus a couple months back who deleted that page originally (Discussion here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Jo-Jo_Eumerus#Path_Solutions_Deletion) and Jo-Jo had a good suggestion I go through the AFC process since I'm pretty new to Wikipedia and that article had some previous problems. I did that as Jo-Jo suggested and assumed that the people in the AFC process were going to help with some of those issues. Concerning the conflict of interest, I tried following the AFC guide on the conflict of interest notice (I think you saw it on a template?) but when it got submitted via AFC it seems that didn't carry over as intended. I'm not sure it is an actual conflict though by Wiki definitions. I'm not being paid. I don't have a personal friendship/relationship with people there. I am a grad student temporarily living/studying in the Middle East though and do meet a lot of people with very interesting stories and backgrounds. Sometimes I try to help them if I can, and I know how to write/research and thought helping on a Wiki article would be a kind gesture. I have a few other articles I hope to do, time permitting (starting my final thesis this semester!) from some other interesting figures I've met out here that aren't as well known in the West. Aside from briefly meeting someone in person once last year who worked at Path Solutions, I'm not personal friends with anyone at that company. I just wanted to try to help and also get some understanding about Sharia issues and how it even drives things like software in the region, which is intriguing to me (I did some small-time software development before). I did my best to make the article work, while also assuming the AFC process was going to help identify things that were issues. If you all aren't too happy with it, and it can go back to AFC for me to try fixing it, I will have some time later this semester. If you need me to try and find the guy I talked to from there last year so he can email you that I'm not an employee there or being paid, I can try to do that too. Let me know how we can try to resolve this, thanks! Prospectiveperspectives (talk)

Conflict of interest editing on Wikipedia

Hello, Prospectiveperspectives. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the article Path Solutions, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. Editing for the purpose of advertising or promotion is not permitted. 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, company, organization or competitors;
• propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (see 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 for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID).

Also please note that editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. ☆ Bri (talk) 01:10, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

Nomination of Path Solutions for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Path Solutions is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Path Solutions (2nd nomination) until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Edwardx (talk) 01:58, 3 January 2018 (UTC)