User talk:MattInTraining

Welcome!

Hello, MattInTraining, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article. Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

To reduce the chances of your contributions being undone, you might like to draft your revised article before submission, and then ask me or another editor to proofread it. See our help page on userspace drafts for more details. If the page you created has already been deleted from Wikipedia, but you want to save the content from it to use for that draft, don't hesitate to ask anyone from this list and they will copy it to your user page.

One rule we do have in connection with conflicts of interest is that accounts used by more than one person will unfortunately be blocked from editing. Wikipedia generally does not allow editors to have usernames which imply that the account belongs to a company or corporation. If you have a username like this, you should request a change of username or create a new account. (A name that identifies the user as an individual within a given organization may be OK.)

In addition, if you receive, or expect to receive, compensation for any contribution you make, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation to comply with our terms of use and our policy on paid editing.

Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

• Best practices for editors with close associations
• The five pillars of Wikipedia
• Contributing to Wikipedia
• Tutorial
• How to edit a page and How to develop articles
• How to create your first article (using the Article Wizard if you wish)
• Simplified Manual of Style

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on talk 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 {{Help me}} before the question. Again, welcome! Drm310 🍁 (talk) 14:34, 12 July 2023 (UTC)

Thank you, Drm310. I appreciate the outreach and the word of caution.

I created the account for use by a single individual (just me) with the intent to provide a purely factual clarification to a contributing editor of a particular Amtrak route page, but with no intent to make direct edits to existing pages myself. I figured I should disclose on my "profile" that I work for Amtrak as a way to establish trustworthiness; is there a recommended way to better disclose this for an account of my type?

MattInTraining (talk) 14:45, 12 July 2023 (UTC)

Hello Matt. The preferred method for you to disclose your employer is by using the {{paid}} template on your userpage (User:MattInTraining). This will ensure that you are in compliance with the mandatory paid editing disclosure policy.

After that, you can use the edit request tool to suggest changes to articles where you have a conflict of interest, i.e. any article related to your employer. You will be expected to provide links to reliable sources to support the changes. --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 12:55, 14 July 2023 (UTC)