User talk:Peer Lawther

Welcome!

Hello, Peer Lawther, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{helpme}} before the question. Again, welcome! -- MightyWarrior (talk) 12:14, 16 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Contributions and COI[edit]

Thanks for your offer to assist with updating the NMSI articles. You may have already read the Wikipedia guideline on conflict of interest (COI), which, although it recommends that editors do not edit articles in which they are personally involved, does not actually forbid it. Therefore, if there are factual errors which can be demonstrated to be wrong (e.g. with references), then as long as you take great care to avoid bias, I think you should be okay. If you are concerned about accusations, then the best way to proceed would be to obtain a community consensus for any changes that you propose, initially by inviting comments on the relevant article's talk page.

Wikipedia does need experts who can provide material for its articles, so it would be unfortunate if you were only able to take an indirect part in the project. One of the mottoes for Wikipedia is "Be Bold" – if you get it wrong, then I'm sure someone will revert the edit to a previous version, and we should all assume good faith before jumping to conclusions about bias. Cheers. -- MightyWarrior (talk) 12:14, 16 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Managing a conflict of interest[edit]

Hello, Peer Lawther. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page StepChange, 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, colleagues, company, organization, clients, or competitors;
propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the {{request edit}} template);
disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see Wikipedia:Conflict of interest#How to disclose a COI);
avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam#External link spamming);
do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to 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 Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Storchy (talk) 09:36, 27 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]