User talk:Team XC

December 2009

If you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Erin Toughill, you may have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, edits where there is a conflict of interest, or where such a conflict might reasonably be inferred, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:

1. editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with;
2. participating in deletion discussions about articles related to your organization or its competitors; and
3. linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam).

Please familiarize yourself with relevant policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, verifiability of information, and autobiographies.

For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. If there are problems with an article about you, please see Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/Help for some suggestions for how to approach those. Thank you. Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 20:12, 22 December 2009 (UTC)

Your note

Hi. In answer to your question on my talk page, I'm an administrator on the English language Wikipedia, but that doesn't matter. Any contributor may point out to you our guidelines regarding conflict of interest editing. Also, I'm afraid you may have misunderstood our purpose if you believe that the article is yours. Even if it is about you, articles are not owned on Wikipedia. See that Conflict of Interest guideline (linked above) as well as WP:OWN. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 20:56, 30 December 2009 (UTC)

Back with a little more time, I'd like to expand a bit on this.

Wikipedia is aware that articles about living persons may present difficulties and encourages its editors to handle them with appropriate sensitivity. Our policy on this can be viewed at Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons. We also have a document written specifically for people who may be affected by these articles, at Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/Help. This advises when it may be a good idea to edit an article and when it may not. The reason I left you the earlier note was this comment you left to another contributor. While persons connected to the subjects of articles have every right to expect that those articles will conform to the Biographies of Living Persons Policy, as the latter document indicates:

1. You cannot expect that Wikipedia editors will make the article say exactly what you want or allow you to do so
2. You cannot expect that Wikipedia editors will give you exclusive editorial control over the article.

While it's certainly appropriate to expect User:MgTurtle not to add material that does not conform to policies, any contributor is welcome to add or alter content to that or any other article so long as the material is neutral, verifiable and does not include original research. I realize that the article is currently temporarily protected pending recent communication to the volunteer response team, but this protection cannot remain long according to Wikipedia's policies, and once the article is unprotected it will again be open for constructive additions by any contributor. That OTRS volunteer team is happy to help address sensitive problems in articles, but as Wikipedia:Contact us/Article problem/Factual error (from subject) notes, we are not able to "prevent other users from editing the article on you", except temporarily, and we are not permitted to "add content through e-mail". All articles on Wikipedia are developed through consensus of the community of editors. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 22:07, 30 December 2009 (UTC)