User talk:Firstwoman

Hello, Firstwoman. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places, or things you have written about in the article First Women, 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) 12:57, 8 July 2016 (UTC)

Reply

Thanks for your message on my talk page. It is a common mistake that people begin editing wikipedia by writing about their own organisation, but unfortunately this can mean they write in a way that seems to be advertising rather than encyclopaedic. The best thing to do is communicate with others and get advice, and work together (wikipedia works by consensus) to figure things out, so thanks for doing just that. Please let me know if you have further questions I can help with - you can reply here or on my talk page.

• In response to your question, if you want to change your user name, then you need to click on this link which will take you to a simple form in order to do so.
• In terms of the article on First Women, even after you have changed your username you still have a conflict of interest, so the recommendation is that you make suggestions to improve the article on the talk page and then let other editors make changes to the article itself. In particular, if you are aware of third-party, neutral, reliable sources that talk about the organisation, it would be great if you could point them out on the talk page. Thanks, Melcous (talk) 03:29, 9 July 2016 (UTC)