21 July 2015 UTC Sure So in this particular case here is what I found You ve been name dropped in WaPo Usually that would make you an auto implied endorsement but rather than being strategist or some kind of senior advisor or whatever your job title was CTO somewhat strange for a political campaign to have somebody with that job title Hence I didn t count it as an auto implied endorsement but looked further This is relatively unambiguous Ron Schnell computer programmer at NSU But there is some wiggle room there And thus the question is 1 per WP ABOUTSELF is that a public endorsement by a celebrity programmer of sorts or alternatively is that a public endorsement by a celebrity professor of sorts I originally put you down as a prof because of your earliest press being for NYU and your current job being adjunct prof and your years at Syracuse You have obviously been a programmer but you ve also obviously been in academia of one type or another sysadmin at ITS counts in my book for a very long time Paul has specific platform planks that impact the world of computer science and the computer industry net neutrality NSA data collection and more There are likely to be copyright related issues in the 2016 election cf the oracle vs google lawsuit over whether the fundefs in an API are copyright or rather fair use in terms of Java libcalls this is probably more important than the look and feel lawsuits of the 1980s So I could see a case where as a programmer slash professor you would endorse based on your understanding of the economic impact in the computer industry much like Walter Block endorsed as an academic who is an economics prof despite disagreeing with Paul on specific issues like the correct governmental level for dealing with vaccinations they agree on economics and thus Block endorsed Then there is the third possibility which is the endorsement as a staffer Although you are a new face as a political consultant that doesn t necessarily make a staffer endorsement less valuable in some ways it makes your endorsement more wiki noteworthy because you are an outsider who wasn t hired based on your implied and pre existing endorsement like most of the professional political staffer hires tend to be Finally I will point out that per WP BLP wikipedians are pretty careful when making statements about BLPs yourself included as well as Rand Paul It is saying something about Paul when somebody is listed as endorsing him but even more so it is saying something about you when we list you as an endorsement giver Since this is a borderline case wikipedians usually just defer to what the BLP wants to happen in this case you If you want to be listed as an endorsement giver because it is a true statement per WP COI you should not insert yourself But I already inserted you along with a ton of other staffer endorsements most of the implied variety but one or two that were more carefully quotation laden And that was before we became wiki involved during the AfD of the Dunnet videogame so it still stands an the action of an uninvolved editor In other words if you d rather be left off the list that s fine just say so and why If somebody else inserts you into the article don t remove yourself from the article mainspace per wiki COI behavioral rule 1 but instead ask for assistance It will also help if you post something WP ABOUTSELF to your blog which says that you are not yet formally endorsing any candidate in the race although that s not necessary at present only if some other editor re inserts you On the other hand if after reading this and looking over the list at Endorsements for the Republican Party presidential primaries 2016 you end up deciding that you do belong on the list either under the academia subsection or under the ce