User talk:Jdmcd

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Jdmcd. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. Editing for the purpose of advertising or promotion is not permitted. 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, company, organization or competitors;
propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (see the {{request edit}} template);
disclose your COI when discussing affected articles (see WP:DISCLOSE);
avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see WP:SPAM);
do your best to comply with 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).

Also please note that editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. 331dot (talk) 15:07, 6 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Anyone can edit an article

On that "own" thing, once an article is accepted, ANY editor can make changes - both additions and subtractions. The best you can do is put it on your Watchlist, and revert changes that are vandalism or in error. When you do that, write something in the Edit summary to explain your reasons. This does not exempt you from having to declare conflict of interest and paid editing at your Talk and in Talk for the article. Sticklers to Wikipedia protocol might insist that any changes you want to make be posted first at the article's Talk, so that a non-involved editor can opine on validity. And you thought it was an easy assignment. David notMD (talk) 15:52, 6 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Jdmcd. Your question has been answered at the Teahouse Q&A board. Feel free to reply there!
Please note that all old questions are archived after 2-3 days of inactivity. Message added by Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 23:17, 5 January 2018 (UTC). (You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{teahouse talkback}} template).[reply]