User talk:Ethan Krauss

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

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited was Version 2 EAD Airframe, 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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Anna Frodesiak (talk) 21:55, 12 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Because your edit is disputed, please use the WP:BRD cycle. You changed content in a stable version of the article. If it is reverted, the onus is on you to show that your change should remain. Please discuss the change you wish to make at the article talk page and get consensus before restoring that content. Thank you. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 21:55, 12 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Ethan Krauss. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the page Version 2 EAD Airframe, 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 (see 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 must 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 please note that editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. BilCat (talk) 05:26, 13 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Ethan,

Fascinating! I can see why you are frustrated by the MIT reports!

You naturally want to come here and tell it like it is. As you must have noticed, we Wikipedians can be a bit bureaucratic about things and it can be daunting for a newcomer like yourself to know which way to turn. I will try to help smooth things out, but as a volunteer like yourself my time is limited. Meanwhile, please do not be in too much of a hurry, as this can disrupt the rest of us and bring down yet more bureaucracy.

— Cheers, Steelpillow (Talk) 06:21, 13 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I have now qualified the claim on the MIT page to at least some extent and will keep an eye on challengers. I have also begun a wider investigation, which I am recording at User:Steelpillow/test1. By the way, thanks for the private email, which I will keep confidential because it contains personal details of others. But for all content issues, please communicate through the Wikipedia talk pages, so that other users can see that we are not trying to pervert the encyclopedia with fake news (more bureaucracy!). — Cheers, Steelpillow (Talk) 13:03, 13 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

You have been told about the conflict of interest guideline more than once, but you have still been editing in violation of that guideline. It would be a good idea to read the guideline and make sure you follow it, because otherwise an administrator may block you from editing. Also, Wikipedia articles need to be written from a neutral point of view, which some of your editing has not been.Breaking sticks (talk) 22:51, 13 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Please tell how my most recent post has broken any of the C.O.I. guidelines. I have read them and don't see any conflicts of interest whatsoever. My editions are highly supported historical facts, provided exactly in the spirit of the guidelines. Undoing my posts is pretty much exactly the same as saying the Wright Brothers didn't fly. Although the Highly and properly referenced invention obviously doesn't carry a person.^[1] and ^[2] Ethan Krauss (talk) 03:05, 14 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The Conflict of Interest guidelines are given at WP:COI. You hold a patent on an ionocraft and therefore you have a very obvious COI in editing that Wikipedia article. You also have the knowledge of an WP:EXPERT and wish to make corrections, generally in your favour. You are also inexperienced in our ways of doing things. It is almost impossible for you not to breach guidelines in this circumstance, and your edits WP:DISRUPT others of us who must take time off other things to sort it out. That makes some of us grumpy. Your best way forward is to follow the COI guideline, whether you feel it deserved or not. Make your comments on the article talk page, in this case Talk:Ionocraft, and leave it to more experienced editors to deal with. You will see that I have started one discussion thread there already. I am working up some more thoughts in my user space, as I can find the time. — Cheers, Steelpillow (Talk) 11:09, 14 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Ethan,

I have now made all the substantive changes I had in mind. Is there anything that you really disagree with, or that you would also like me to take a look at? — Cheers, Steelpillow (Talk) 14:01, 21 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Steelpillow,

I don't have any specific suggestions for better wording just yet. It is not just modern electronics that make it possible to carry a power supply. It took a complex system with a lot of novel elements to make it work. The power to weight had to be increased by orders of magnitude.

All of these devices are "fixed wing." It's just that utilizing large wings etc. is a method of reducing the power to weight requirements of an ion propulsion unit. I would hope that the technology is headed toward very small or no wings as it is advantageous. Ethan Krauss (talk) 19:32, 22 January 2019 (UTC) Thanks![reply]

There are many things to say, but one important detail is that it is not correct to take the words "self contained" from my patent and apply them to the MIT device. Their much later device is not self contained as it requires a bungee cord for launch. I am not trying to cause any further trouble however, since I really don't have time or the good health to argue indefinitely. Also, while it sounds great for people to say that there are well defined equations and that the phenomenon is well understood, in truth there is still a lot of room for improvement in this subject, otherwise, their would be no point. Ethan Krauss (talk) 22:13, 24 March 2019 (UTC)Ethan Krauss (talk) 22:15, 24 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]