User talk:Spiffydave

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revert

Hi there I don't appreciate you reverting my edit with no comment. James Michael DuPont (talk) 01:04, 27 March 2016 (UTC)

Nomination of Matt rissell for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Matt rissell 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/Matt rissell 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. Parkywiki (talk) 23:58, 7 December 2016 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Matt Rissell

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A tag has been placed on Matt Rissell requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to be a clear copyright infringement. This page appears to be a direct copy from https://www.tsheets.com/about/ceo. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites or other printed material as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.

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Matt rissell listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Matt rissell. Since you had some involvement with the Matt rissell redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Parkywiki (talk) 22:56, 8 December 2016 (UTC)

TSheets Article Marked as an Ad

Spiffydave,

I've noticed your strong interest in the TSheets article, and reading through your contributions, you mention you're an employee of TSheets. Due to your relationship with TSheets, editing this Wikipedia article is inappropriate. I've looked closely at your edits and contributions; they seem to 1) introduce unsubstantiated facts 2) rely on primary sources 3) remove useful information when it "looks bad" 4) and create marketing literature from the previously unbiased contributions of other Wikipedia editors.

Here are specific issues:

• Wikipedia is not the place to publish facts and figures on the size of the company. If you want to include them in the article, they must be published elsewhere and cited in the article (ideally a non-Intuit, non-TSheets source).
• On the Comparison of Time Tracking Software page, you changed REST API to Open API. Open API is a marketing term. REST API is a technical term. I looked through the TSheets documentation and the API is specifically mentioned to be a REST API. Open API is also mentioned on the TSheets page and should be changed to REST API there.
• On 2 December 2016, you rewrote much of the article and, in my opinion, turned it into marketing literature.
• On 23 March 2016, you removed the proprietary software tag from the article. According to the TSheets Terms and Conditions under section 3, "Customer will not, and will not permit, assist, or allow others to, reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, re-engineer, or otherwise discover, recreate, or attempt to discover or recreate the Software or its source code.". This is the definition of proprietary software. Whether software is proprietary or open source is useful information to Wikipedia readers.

Please do not take offense to any of this. I know you want TSheets to have a shining presence on Wikipedia, and I too want to help Wikipedia readers learn about TSheets. Since you are so interested in the TSheets article, and likely to revert or revise any changes I make. I'll extend you the opportunity to fix the article yourself before I intervene. Please be respectful of any changes I make.

Wurtech (talk) 16:41, 22 January 2018 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Spiffydave. 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:

• 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 conflict of interest 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 please note that editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. MrOllie (talk) 18:27, 22 May 2019 (UTC)