User talk:ZacBond

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Indirect editing advice

Working through other editors due to COI situations (such as at Pure Storage) can be complex and each editor that you might through can be different. I've been that "other editor" many times and have a few possibly useful tips:

Unless you describe a proposed edit exactly and specifically like exactly what to remove and exactly what to put in where, you are creating a bigger job for the potential editor and thus making it slower and less likely that you'll find someone willing to do it.

Usually a person that you want to make the edit and persons who want to review the edit that they made want to see what the changes are. When you draft a whole new version of an article or whole new main section of than article, you are raising the skill level and/or amount of time required for for people to do that. Which make the change less likely to happen

Even when COI editors do their best to make their work neutral, they often make mistakes. Some of these are:

Using internal jargon as supposed communication. Note the italics. Internal jargon can be fine when it is treated as such. So it's OK to say " "XYZ" is pure storage's name for putting nitrogen in the tires" But not "pure storage's tires include XYZ technology)"

Content which is focused on "This is what we want the public to know" where it should be "this is what the reader wants to learn"

Remedies include using content from independent sources that cover it independently in depth,and putting yourself in the reader's shows. Sincerely, North8000 (talk) 18:23, 23 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

This is very helpful advice, and I will employ it in the future. Thank you for taking the time to post feedback! ZacBond (talk) 18:36, 23 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]