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A barnstar for you!

	The Special Barnstar
	This Barnstar is for being a good example of how to do things the right way, even when it isn't the easy way. Guy Macon (talk) 15:01, 31 October 2013 (UTC)

Thanks! All the Wiki-Love I've gotten recently is very much appreciated. It's a lot of work to do things properly with a COI. For many clients, they have such a strong opinion on their subjects, it is a long and emotional struggle. It's also very difficult to get organizations to understand why they would include negative material about themselves. I think it is scalable to an extent, meaning we can increase productive COI participation from 10% to 25%, but it will always be the minority that is actually helpful. CorporateM (Talk) 15:42, 31 October 2013 (UTC)

Monster (company)

Hi CorporateM, I was the one who reverted the rant. (For some reason I had Gaijin42's talk page on watch.) Anyhow, it's been added again, by a different SE Asia IP. Not wanting to get into a revert war, this time I simply removed the bold header for it and marked the "reference" as . The IP is clearly representing ONIX DNA Ltd (the "injured party"). Perhaps, bring it to COIN? Best, Voceditenore (talk) 06:30, 1 November 2013 (UTC)

@Voceditenore I figured it was probably a COI edit, but I kept those thoughts to myself as to at least give the appearance of AGFing ;-)

It looks like user:North8000 reverted them again, which is what I would have done. It's funny how often a COI editor will encounter other COIs. Some articles even become a battleground between competing COIs. CorporateM (Talk) 12:37, 1 November 2013 (UTC)

The Telecommunications Barnstar

		The Telecommunications Barnstar
		Thank you so much for your work on Guthy-Renker and other corporation-related articles. Please accept this barnstar. --Sp33dyphil ©ontributions 07:02, 1 November 2013 (UTC)

Thanks so much!!! I feel like user:OrangeMike might have a fit seeing all the barnstars I'm getting for COI work. (we previously had a conversation about how he felt barnstars were reserved for volunteers not getting paid for their work). I've created more than 10% of WikiProject Companies' GA or above pages now - and I'm excited about racing to 30%!

These are also great because I forward them to the client and it's sort of a re-assurance that Misplaced Pages appreciates them doing things the right way. Ultimately, it's the client who chooses to work with me, rather than pay less to get a more favorable article faster with an astroturfing service. And everyone within their organization has to struggle a lot more doing things the right way than if they just edited the article covertly into the page they would most prefer.

All the kudos really means a lot to me. CorporateM (Talk) 12:55, 1 November 2013 (UTC)

No worries! As long as you remain neutral and make public your COI, keep up what you're doing. Regards, --Sp33dyphil ©_ontributions 13:06, 1 November 2013 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Jeremy Stoppelman

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Jeremy Stoppelman you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Edge3 -- Edge3 (talk) 04:42, 4 November 2013 (UTC)

Hey @Edge3, you're on a roll! Appreciate your thorough reviews and I apologize mine are slightly more painful on account of my having to be cautious about my COI. CorporateM (Talk) 12:53, 4 November 2013 (UTC)

No worries. I have more free time this month, so I figured that I should spend some time helping out with the backlog. I like reviewing your articles because they've been written to near-GA standards, so there hasn't been much work left for me to do before they pass. :) Edge3 (talk) 00:21, 5 November 2013 (UTC)

SubEx thanks

Thank you for taking on the relatively thankless job of keeping that article honest and up to date.

This is a pointed example of what's wrong with some of the bad ways that people try to recruit/hire editors to game articles: as they then posted to the bounty & reward board and got at least one established editor to take them up on the offer. Are you game to talk a bit about this case and the reward board (which is now up for deletion) in general? I don't want to make you uncomfortable, but respect your approach to these issues.

Regards, – SJ + 23:58, 5 November 2013 (UTC)