User talk:TimBlount

Hi

Hey Wikipedians. I'm the guy who made the Modernista! website.[1]

I started this page so people can talk to me about it. Please remember that the opinions expressed on this page do not reflect those of my employer.

Conflict of interest

Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, please do not add promotional material to articles. Advertising and using Wikipedia as a "soapbox" is strongly discouraged. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you. If you have a close connection to some of the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, edits where there is a conflict of interest, or where such a conflict might reasonably be inferred from the tone of the edit and the proximity of the editor to the subject, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:

1. editing articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with;
2. participating in deletion discussions about articles related to your organization or its competitors;
3. linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam);

   and you must always:

4. avoid breaching relevant policies and guidelines, especially neutral point of view, verifiability, and autobiography.

For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have conflict of interest, please see Wikipedia:Business' FAQ. For more details about what constitutes a conflict of interest, please see Wikipedia:Conflict of Interest. Thank you. --Orange Mike | Talk 16:39, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

Please note that I have not materially contributed to the current Modernista! article. Your COI tag is not valid from my perspective. I'll respectfully leave it up for debate. TimBlount (talk) 16:42, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

Website/Notability

Apropos the website: a purely personal observation: you have reached the dubious distinction of creating the only website I've ever seen that annoyed me more than the kind of Flash-heavy homepage which refuses to allow you to skip the Flash-trash, while playing bad music at high volume! That, of course, has nothing to do with whether your employer is notable enough to have an article here. --Orange Mike | Talk 20:38, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

I appreciate you taking the time to voice your opinion - although I'm not sure why the site annoys you. I sincerely hope your low opinion of the site is not what lead you to posting the Deletion and COI notices on the Modernista! page. As for the notability of the company, I think you'll find that most Wikipedians who educate themselves on the mark we've made on the industry would disagree with you. If the few references on the page aren't enough for you, check the Deletion Review page and see for yourself what your peers say. TimBlount (talk) 20:50, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

I do hope you've noticed that the COI tag has been removed by me, in the wake of a careful examination of the edit history. I will leave the notability to others to judge; but I will remind you that notability is not contagious; you can't "catch" it from your customers. As to the annoying website: I'll take that offlist. --Orange Mike | Talk 20:57, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

I saw the removal of the COI. Thank you. Even though being the agency of record for such clients as Cadillac and HUMMER comes with inherent notability (the agency's work has aired in all of the most prominent media outlets, from the New York Times to the Super Bowl), I do believe that Modernista! has earned its notability, rather than "inheriting" it. You'll find Modernista! mentioned in the most reputable of news sources - the current website alone has garnered attention from a number of well-known blogs [2][[3] [4]. TimBlount (talk) 21:13, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

Blogs are not considered reliable sources. --Orange Mike | Talk 03:37, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

Tak page policy

Will you please allow me to remove my own posts from the discussion page at Talk:Modernista!? TimBlount (talk) 15:28, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

That is not how the discussion system on WP works. I refer you to Wikipedia:Talk#Own_comments. --AlisonW (talk) 18:05, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

Is there a reason you think it's necessary that the thread I started remains in the discussion? As far as I'm concerned it is inconsequential to the article. The response from an IP user doesn't really add anything.TimBlount (talk) 19:02, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

Please stop. If you continue to blank out or delete portions of page content, templates or other materials from Wikipedia, as you did to Talk:Modernista!, you will be blocked from editing. --Orange Mike | Talk 03:36, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

Is it really a block-worthy offense to blank my own comments? They still show up in the history. The guidelines I see laid out on Wikipedia:Talk#Own_comments endorse blanking, and they refer to respect for people who have replied as the sole reason this practice is to be avoided. I'm sure "That's all nice and dandy" guy won't miss me. TimBlount (talk) 12:16, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

The removed comments establish an important context for the interactions between the various Wikipedia editors involved, and Modernista staffers such as yourself. --Orange Mike | Talk 13:03, 8 April 2008 (UTC)