User talk:Johnjvogt

Hello, Johnjvogt, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited was Cross-docking, which appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article. Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

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I realize you are probably an expert in the field of cross-docking per your academic publications, but please treat any topic in which you have written about professionally as if you have a WP:Conflict of interest. This means using the talk page of the article to request that changes be made using the Template:Requested edit template.

That is not the main reason that I reverted your changes though. I reverted them because your style of writing, while perfectly acceptable for other publication venues, is very different from Wikipedia's manual of style. This made the page not much more usable than a paper printout. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs) 03:33, 10 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

David

Two things. My sole aim was to improve Wikipedia, and the existing cross-dock write up leaves a lot to be desired. I tried to do the edit, and found I could directly add the page. I copied other pages of some similar topics that I am an expert in, such as Incoterms. I did not see all the talk pages and styles. If you would like me to work with you on an improved cross-dock writeup, pls tell me what style and how i get the page approved?

Johnjvogt (talk) 13:28, 11 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]