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Written like an Advertisement

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This article appears to be written like an ad and seems to have been written by the business itself in violation of Wikipedia guidelines (ACTUALCOI, SPA). 167.21.141.14 (talk) 12:17, 19 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I agree it's an advert, also Wikipedia has guidelines not rules about COI, so they are allowed to create it, just strongly discouraged from doing so. I've PRODed it. Joseph2302 (talk) 12:26, 19 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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Just added alot of wikilinks, please say that it is now not underlinked

Product lists in infobox

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Per Template:Infobox_company this parameter should include a "representative selection of the company's well known current or former products", not a comprehensive indiscriminate product list. Editors with a possible conflict of interest are welcome to suggest additions and changes - based on independent reliable sources - here on the talkpage (via "request corrections or suggest content" on top of the page). GermanJoe (talk) 10:51, 21 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion

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Possible this could be challenged with improvement/correction but pointless if it would not survive an AfD so at this moment personally not prepared to deprod or attempt to make required improvements due to possibly fruitless effort involved. Article has suffered from quite possibly good faith edits from people with conflicts of interest. The totality of some previous edits to address some issues may have compromised this articles' survivability from other criteria.Djm-leighpark (talk) 10:59, 18 April 2018 (UTC) Article not eligible for PROD anyway.Djm-leighpark (talk) 16:56, 18 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Capitisation

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The company itself seems to be varying the capitisation of itself and its product. There it is unclear to me egress switch or Egress Switch is more appropriate; Egress switch is really not viable.Djm-leighpark (talk) 17:35, 18 April 2018 (UTC). Egress Switch used.Djm-leighpark (talk) 21:34, 18 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Article improvement

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I've done some improvements. There's a redirect now set up from Egress Switch as that's where de-orphaning will come from. Most of the Looks like an advert stuff was actually removed previously some of which may have been technically useful. Article is however in my opinion capable of improvement.Djm-leighpark (talk) 21:34, 18 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hi guys, I'm an employee at Egress and would like to resolve some of the outstanding issues on the Egress Software company page. As per Wikipedia guidelines regarding COI, it would be great to discuss some of the issues with an expert rather than making any edits myself, and to add more up-to-date content about the company as it has grown in the past 4 years. James, James3500 (talk) 12:23, 16 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Thankyou for declaring your COI. This is a quick response rather than a fully checked out response. Couple of places to look are WP:COI, WP:PSCOI and WP:REQEDIT. After you've navigated to get the right declarations in the right places, make sure you've done that ... you can use the Wikipedia:Edit requests system to request changes. Be aware anything that has hint of promotion or advert or non-neutral language will likely be rejected. I might try to talk you over a bit on on your talk page to start you off when I get a chance. Or I might not. I'm a volunteer. I'll try and dig out a couple of examples too.Djm-leighpark (talk) 13:05, 16 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Request edit on 17 July 2019

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As per my earlier comment, I'd like to request some changes to the Egress page given that I am an employee and am conscious of the COI guidelines. Initially I'd like to request changes in our infobox, to provide more up-to-date and thorough information about the company, and also to update our intro & history sections to make them more neutral while adding more detail. I'd also like to add a 'Funding' section (between History & Products), similar to competitors and other software companies. New requested content is below. Thanks in advance for your support! James3500 (talk) 13:09, 17 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

— Preceding unsigned comment added by James3500 (talk • contribs) 15:32, 17 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Reply 17-JUN-2019

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  Unable to review edit request  

  • Your edit request could not be reviewed because the provided references are not formatted correctly.[a] The citation style predominantly used by the Egress Software article is Citation Style 1 (CS1). The citation style used in the edit request consists of a combination of bare URL's along with CS1.[b] Any requested edit of yours which may be implemented will need to resemble the current style already in use in the article – in this case, CS1. (See WP:CITEVAR.) In the extended section below titled Citation style, I have illustrated two examples: one showing how the edit request was submitted, and another showing how requests should be submitted in the future:

Kindly rewrite your edit request so that it aligns more with the second example shown in the collapsed section above, and feel free to re-submit that edit request at your earliest convenience. If you have any questions about this formatting please don't hesitate to ask myself or another editor. Regards,  Spintendo  00:42, 18 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Notes

  1. ^ The fault for this formatting error may have originated with the automated prompts used by the edit request template, which asks for a COI editor to "supply the URL of any references used". While the resulting omission of information would not be the fault of the requesting COI editor, it nevertheless remains their responsibility to supply the references formatted in the style used by the article.
  2. ^ The use of bare URLs as references is a style which is acceptable for use in Wikipedia. However, general practice dictates that the style already in use for an article be the one that is subsequently used for all future additions unless changed by editorial consensus.[1]

References

  1. ^ "WP:CITEVAR - Wikipedia:Citing sources". Wikipedia. 20 October 2018. Retrieved 22 October 2018. Guideline: It is normal practice to defer to the style used by the first major contributor or adopted by the consensus of editors already working on the page, unless a change in consensus has been achieved. If the article you are editing is already using a particular citation style, you should follow it.

Hi Spintendo, thanks for the input! References updated. James3500 (talk) 10:42, 23 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

COI edits 26 October 2021

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@James3500: I appreciate you declared in in July 2019 you were an employee of the company but your contributions on 26 October 2021 have caused a lot of problems and I'm going to have to revert the lot to clear the COI edits, and its not going to be a straightforward revert. If, after I've done that there's a simple material fact e.g. the CEO has changed let me know and I'll change that. Otherwise join the {{Request edit}} queue. Thankyou. Djm-leighpark (talk) 19:32, 9 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I've reverted the COI edits. Thankyou.  Done
A second look revealed other issues I've had to have a go at, some especially in August 2021 which were a mixture of postive and negative. Need to go elsewhere now (or actually 4 hours ago!). Thankyou. Djm-leighpark (talk) 15:01, 15 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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