User talk:Ronmun

Welcome[edit]

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If you need any more information, plenty of help is available - check out Wikipedia:Questions; ask your question here and attract help with the code {{helpme}}; or leave me a message on my talk page explaining your problem and I will help as best as I can. Again, welcome! strdst_grl (call me Stardust) 17:32, 2 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia and copyright[edit]

Hello Ronmun, and welcome to Wikipedia. All or some of your addition(s) to The ROADEX Project have been removed, as they appear to have added copyrighted material without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. While we appreciate your contributions to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from sources to avoid copyright and plagiarism issues here.

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It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. TMG^talk 04:02, 30 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Deletion discussion about The ROADEX NETWORK[edit]

Hello, Ronmun,

I wanted to let you know that there's a discussion about whether The ROADEX NETWORK should be deleted. Your comments are welcome at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The ROADEX NETWORK .

If you're new to the process, articles for deletion is a group discussion (not a vote!) that usually lasts seven days. If you need it, there is a guide on how to contribute. Last but not least, you are highly encouraged to continue improving the article; just be sure not to remove the tag about the deletion nomination from the top.

Thanks,

Meatsgains^(talk) 01:33, 12 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

- Dear Meatsgains. Thank you for your note. The plan was to try to have a historic ROADEX Project page and a live ROADEX NETWORK page but with your comments I have contacted my colleagues in ROADEX and we feel that the easiest way forward for ROADEX would be to append the suggested ROADEX NETWORK text to the ROADEX project page. There is still some work to do on the ROADEX Project page with citations and references and I hope that I will be able to do this in the coming weeks. Best regards RonRonmun (talk) 09:56, 12 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Affiliation with The Roadex Project[edit]

Hi, Ronmun. Thanks for contributing the article for The Roadex Project to Wikipedia. I noticed that you said you're affiliated with ROADEX, and I'd like to ask you to disclose your relationship with the project to meet Wikipedia's conflict of interest gudelines.

Below is the general message that's usually sent out to connected contributors:

Hello, Ronmun. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the page The Roadex Project, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI 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 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.

Be careful about using copyrighted material. Although you may have permission to publish information from ROADEX websites, it might violate the organization's copyright if the content isn't compatible with Wikipedia's license. If you can get ROADEX to verify that Wikipedia has permission to use the text, you would be able to use the content without having to summarize it.

Thanks again for contributing to Wikipedia! Newslinger (talk) 03:34, 19 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Newslinger, thank you for your helpful input. I will speak to the ROADEX lead partner in Sweden and ask if he can draft something to confirm permission to publish information. I have already been collecting some independent references that should add more substance to the page. Ron Ronmun (talk) 19:06, 19 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of The Roadex Project for deletion[edit]

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article The Roadex Project 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/The Roadex Project until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, 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. The editor whose username is Z0 09:29, 22 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: The Roadex Project has been accepted[edit]

The Roadex Project, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.
The article has been assessed as Project-Class, which is recorded on the article's talk page. You may like to take a look at the grading scheme to see how you can improve the article.

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Thank you for helping improve Wikipedia!

Mgbo120 (talk) 17:26, 22 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: The Roadex Project (September 23)[edit]

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by DGG was:

remove the jargon. Focuss on what someone in the general public ight want to know. Usefewer references from you own sites. Get some references providing substantial coverage from third-party independent reliable sources, not press releases or mere announcements

Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.

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DGG ( talk ) 22:27, 23 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Ronmun! Having an article declined at Articles for Creation can be disappointing. If you are wondering why your article submission was declined, please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there! DGG ( talk ) 22:27, 23 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Managing a conflict of interest[edit]

Hello, Ronmun. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the page Articles for creation: The Roadex Project, 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 (you can use 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 are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to 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, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 11:27, 24 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Please remember to declare any conflict of interest. DGG ( talk ) 22:13, 21 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Accepted[edit]

You did a good job of revision, and I've copyedited the article a little further and accepted it. But remember, you must declare COI is iff there is any, and if not,, it would help to make a statement here saying that. DGG ( talk ) 22:29, 5 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you DGG. I had a declaration on my Ronmun account giving the background to the page and my involvement. I have updated it to make it current and have copied it here also. Hopefully it will be sufficient for COI.

"This account has been created primarily to document the history of the EU Northern Periphery ROADEX project and its successor ROADEX NETWORK collaboration. I am retired civil engineer and was actively involved with the ROADEX project since its inception in 1998. I held various roles ranging from steering committee member for the pilot ROADEX project, steering committee chairman for ROADEX II and project manager for ROADEX III & IV. I am currently an ad hoc adviser to the consultant ROADEX NETWORK secretariat on historical issues. I realise that there are guidelines on editing pages where there could be an apparent conflict of interest and will try to keep my text to statements of fact only, supporting by references and citations where possible. It is my intention to follow all of Wikipedia's guidelines and I will welcome any help or contributions to ensure that the ROADEX Project page remains within these guidelines".Ronmun (talk) 10:45, 6 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]