User talk:Rongully
Hello, Rongully. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places, or things you have written about in the article HotCopper, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic, and it is important when editing Wikipedia articles that such connections be completely transparent. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. In particular, we ask that you please:
- avoid editing or creating articles related to you and your family, friends, school, company, club, or organization, as well as any competing companies' projects or products;
- instead, you are encouraged to propose changes on the Talk pages of affected article(s) (see the {{request edit}} template);
- when discussing affected articles, disclose your COI (see WP:DISCLOSE);
- avoid linking to the Wikipedia article or to the website of your organization in other articles (see WP:SPAM);
- exercise great caution so that you do not violate Wikipedia's content policies.
In addition, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID).
Please take a few moments to read and review Wikipedia's policies regarding conflicts of interest, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, sourcing and autobiographies. Thank you. Melcous (talk) 08:56, 26 April 2017 (UTC)
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[edit]Hi and thanks for your message on my talk page. A few things:
- as noted above, because you have a clear conflict of interest regarding the article, you should not edit it directly. Instead, you are encouraged to make suggestions on the talk page which can be reviewed by neutral editors and then the article changed by them if the proposed content can be verified
- Wikipedia works by reporting what reliable, secondary sources say about a topic. So your own personal knowledge is not enough, you need to show from sources like newspaper articles, journals and books, that the proposed content is accurate.
- Finally, please be very careful about throwing around suggestions of taking legal action. Wikipedia has a very clear policy of no legal threats and editors who threaten legal action will be banned from editing
Thank you, Melcous (talk) 10:11, 26 April 2017 (UTC)
Rongully, you are invited to the Teahouse!
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Hi Rongully! Thanks for contributing to Wikipedia. We hope to see you there!
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