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The article Patrick Macdonald-King has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Sources do not establish notability per WP:BIO. Random quotes from Variety etc. do not constitute in-depth coverage. Award to software product not inherited.

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Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Brianhe (talk) 00:04, 30 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The article Be Bop A Lula (play) has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Since 2009, entire article remains sourced to IMDB, which is not a reliable source.

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Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Brianhe (talk) 00:17, 30 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Rex, I just reviewed your edits, and they are 100% conflicted. It is essential that you respond to the notice above. Please know that editing Wikipedia is a privilege, not a right, and editors who violate the Terms of Use and our policies and guidelines lose their editing privileges, in whole or in part. Editors with a COI can be part of the Wikipedia community, but you must disclose your conflicts and discuss things. Everything here is built on discussion and consensus-building, and we love experts and want to retain them.... but editors who blow off community norms (like responding on Talk pages) get thrown out of here. So please reply, and please start working with us to manage your conflicts. Thanks. Jytdog (talk) 15:34, 30 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Rex would you please reply here - do you see how you have conflicts of interest for the articles you have edited? Thanks. Jytdog (talk) 20:39, 2 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Jytdog - I see the error of my ways on several submissions and will seek out uninvolved parties to re-submit on these subjects in conformance with Wiki rules and style. For Patrick MacDonald King whose career I observed as a journalist for Variety, and whose contributions to entertainment technology were significant enough for his company (DAX) to awarded an Emmy, I will revise the article in way that I hope will be acceptable. Thanks for your patience! Rexweiner1 (talk) 23:52, 4 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hooray! Thanks so much for talking back. Whew. Some conflicted editors just flip the bird to the community and things get ugly. You do have a ton of great experience and I do hope you learn how this place works and stick around. Can we talk a bit about managing your COI here? There are some set things you can do, to make things work better and I would like to tell you about them... OK? Jytdog (talk) 00:11, 5 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Jytdog - sure, that would be great. What's the best way to communicate? Rexweiner1 (talk) 14:52, 6 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I think User:Jytdog will come reply here shortly. — Brianhe (talk) 19:25, 6 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Brianhe - any chance I could get some assistance from you?Rexweiner1 (talk) 21:36, 10 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

sorry i got distracted by other things and this slipped through the cracks. Where were we? Let's see...ok, the basic COI management process in Wikipedia involves two steps - disclosing relevant relationships, and peer review. So, you are editing here under your real name. You were the author of a play you wrote about, and that is a clear COI. Your linkedin profile says that you have a consulting relationship with DAX, of which Patrick MacDonald King is the CEO. That also constitutes a COI here in WP. Does that make sense? I'll pause there to hear your response (I won't let such a long time go by this time, sorry!) Jytdog (talk) 22:09, 10 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I'm still listening as well. Brianhe (talk) 23:11, 10 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, guys! I'm primarily interested in my articles on DAX and Patrick Macdonald-King. I am no longer employed by DAX since their acquisition by Prime Focus Technologies (they seem to have some issues with their own article) over a year ago. However, I feel responsible for my articles on those two subjects and would like to submit them correctly, if only to understand the process as well as to make sure that these subjects are covered for future researchers. I have gone ahead and done an edit on DAX which I think stands up. I would like to do the same on Patrick Macdonald-King using additional third party references--articles and interviews that have recently appeared in industry magazines--if that is permissible? Rexweiner1 (talk) 22:35, 12 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Almost everything is permissable, but we just need to work out the COI issues. So I understand that you/Mediatek had DAX as a client (Mediatek's website cites that relatiationship prominently) and you did the PR around the acquisition. Are you willing to accept that in WP you have a COI with regard to DAX and Patrick MacDonald King? If so. the way forward is clear, and I can describe that to you... Jytdog (talk) 00:29, 13 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I can accept that and assume it will be noted somehow in the article. Can you show me examples of how that is done in other articles?Rexweiner1 (talk) 16:39, 13 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Brianhe?Jytdog?Rexweiner1 (talk) 16:45, 17 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Damn it, time slipped by again, sorry. You can see examples of editors with a COI suggesting content on the article talk page, and others responding, by clicking on any of the links on this page: . Let me know if you don't find what you need there! Jytdog (talk) 17:19, 17 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I have placed a disclosure on my user page regarding articles on DAX and Patrick MacDonald-King, that I hope will allow my submissions to be accepted. I am unable to create an internal Wiki link to the DAX page, however (note says the page does not exist), and it seems you have deleted the article on Patrick MacDonald-King. Can the first problem be fixed and a revised article on Patrick MacDonald-King be re-instated or freshly created?Rexweiner1 (talk) 18:08, 17 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

What you want to do is go to Wikipedia:Articles for creation and click the big blue "create article" button to create an article on the individual. The requests for changes to DAX can be filed at Talk:DAX (application). Make sure to include {{request edit}} on the latter to get someone's attention. — Brianhe (talk) 18:29, 17 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Rex, so here is the big picture on editing with a COI in Wikipedia, with full transparency.

Management of COI in Wikipedia has two steps - disclosure and a form of peer review. The disclosure should go on the relevant article Talk page (which I already did for you), and on your user page, which you have now done.

The peer review" piece may seem a bit strange to you at first, but if you think about it, it will make sense. In Wikipedia, editors can immediately publish their work, with no intervening publisher or standard peer review -- you can just create an article click save, and viola there is a new article, and you can go into any article, make changes, click save, and done. No intermediary.

What we ask editors who have a COI to do, is a) if you create an article, submit it through the WP:AFC process so it can be reviewed before it publishes (which Brianhe just described). b) And if you want to change content in an existing article on a topic where you have a COI (for instance, on the article about Dax), we ask editors with a COI to propose content on the Talk page for others to review and implement, instead of doing it directly themselves. You can do make the edit request easily - and provide notice to the community of your request - by using the "edit request" function as described in the conflict of interest guideline. I made that easy for you by adding a section to the beige box at the top of the Talk page at Dax - there is a link at "click here" in that section -- if you click that, the Wikipedia software will automatically format a section in which you can make your request. That is the full story - I hope that makes sense. Jytdog (talk) 21:08, 17 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Rex - I thought that you agreed to not edit the article directly, but today you made a bunch of edits directly. What's up? Thanks Jytdog (talk) 21:09, 18 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Oy, sorry, late in the day and I missed your "big picture" note. Can I still go through the process you described?Rexweiner1 (talk) 21:12, 18 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Of course! Editors with a COI are part of the community; we just ask them to follow the COI guideline. Thank you. Jytdog (talk) 21:39, 18 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]