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:I have restored my comment; I have no idea what else you did, or were trying to do. <span class="vcard"><span class="fn">[[User:Pigsonthewing|Andy Mabbett]]</span> (<span class="nickname">Pigsonthewing</span>); [[User talk:Pigsonthewing|Talk to Andy]]; [[Special:Contributions/Pigsonthewing|Andy's edits]]</span> 22:45, 16 January 2018 (UTC)
:I have restored my comment; I have no idea what else you did, or were trying to do. <span class="vcard"><span class="fn">[[User:Pigsonthewing|Andy Mabbett]]</span> (<span class="nickname">Pigsonthewing</span>); [[User talk:Pigsonthewing|Talk to Andy]]; [[Special:Contributions/Pigsonthewing|Andy's edits]]</span> 22:45, 16 January 2018 (UTC)

== Help wanted! ==

Hi Andy,

I hope you are doing well. I'm writing to you to ask for your opinion regarding a client of mine: story time below!

Basically the gentleman ([[Martin Saidler]]) owns a company ([[Centralway]]) whose article has been edited by employees over the years (easy to track: they added "centrlway" to their usernames). They apparently weren't very good at it, however, because at some point they hired a guy over at Upwork to do their job. They then hired a second guy to create the owner's biography (still via Upwork).

Problems arose when the first Upwork guy was found to be an undisclosed paid editor: then all articles he'd touched were slapped with a {{t|CoI}} tag, which is fine. What is less fine, however, is that the Martin Saidler's article was also tagged, eventhough the CoI was [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Martin_Saidler&type=revision&diff=801243172&oldid=799829728 appropriately declared] during creation by Upwork guy#2 (and the evil, no good, paid editor hadn't touched it).

Of course the second editor won't touch it anymore with a ten-foot pole, and I've been contacted to fix this mess (disclosure: I am NOT on Upwork or any similar site). Basically they would like:
* the unwarranted CoI tag on [[Martin Saidler]] to be removed;
* a [[:File:MSaidler.jpg|picture]] to be added (it's been uploaded and cleared with OTRS already);
* the infobox mention that he is a Uni Vienna alumni to be removed (he's a drop out, and it actually says as much in the first line of the second paragraph).

and that's it.

I've listed every employee I could find in the talk pages with the appropriate template, and contacted [[user:Doc James]] (who did the initial tagging), asking to correct the Martin Saidler article (the discussion can be seen [[Talk:Martin_Saidler|here]] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Doc_James&diff=prev&oldid=819610181 here]). You read it all, but let us simply say that Jame has been politely uncooperative: : not saying a definite "no", but not helping either.
Things haven't moved an inch in a month and what I thought would be a rather straightforward thing needs to come to a close. That's when I figured I should contact someone neutral and distant enough with the whole affair to have a look at it : if you think the above three edits are reasonable, then by all means please fix them; and if it can not/should not be fixed, then let me know and I'll tell the client that they should have been smarter.

Thanks! -- [[User:Pplc|Pplc]] ([[User talk:Pplc|talk]]) 17:59, 18 January 2018 (UTC)

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I screwed up the formatting during an edit conflict at MoS talk

Can you fix it? I wanted to move the comments to a new section, it was confusing having them interspersed. I also see that your format is now duplicated by someone else using different html. --RAN (talk) 21:42, 16 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I have restored my comment; I have no idea what else you did, or were trying to do. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 22:45, 16 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Help wanted!

Hi Andy,

I hope you are doing well. I'm writing to you to ask for your opinion regarding a client of mine: story time below!

Basically the gentleman (Martin Saidler) owns a company (Centralway) whose article has been edited by employees over the years (easy to track: they added "centrlway" to their usernames). They apparently weren't very good at it, however, because at some point they hired a guy over at Upwork to do their job. They then hired a second guy to create the owner's biography (still via Upwork).

Problems arose when the first Upwork guy was found to be an undisclosed paid editor: then all articles he'd touched were slapped with a {{CoI}} tag, which is fine. What is less fine, however, is that the Martin Saidler's article was also tagged, eventhough the CoI was appropriately declared during creation by Upwork guy#2 (and the evil, no good, paid editor hadn't touched it).

Of course the second editor won't touch it anymore with a ten-foot pole, and I've been contacted to fix this mess (disclosure: I am NOT on Upwork or any similar site). Basically they would like:

  • the unwarranted CoI tag on Martin Saidler to be removed;
  • a picture to be added (it's been uploaded and cleared with OTRS already);
  • the infobox mention that he is a Uni Vienna alumni to be removed (he's a drop out, and it actually says as much in the first line of the second paragraph).

and that's it.

I've listed every employee I could find in the talk pages with the appropriate template, and contacted user:Doc James (who did the initial tagging), asking to correct the Martin Saidler article (the discussion can be seen here and here). You read it all, but let us simply say that Jame has been politely uncooperative: : not saying a definite "no", but not helping either.

Things haven't moved an inch in a month and what I thought would be a rather straightforward thing needs to come to a close. That's when I figured I should contact someone neutral and distant enough with the whole affair to have a look at it : if you think the above three edits are reasonable, then by all means please fix them; and if it can not/should not be fixed, then let me know and I'll tell the client that they should have been smarter.

Thanks! -- Pplc (talk) 17:59, 18 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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