User talk:WhiteoaksTL

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Conflict of interest and promotional editing

Hello, WhiteoaksTL. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places, or things you have written about in the article David McCourt, 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 which forms all or part of work 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.

Also please note that editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Melcous (talk) 14:13, 13 September 2017 (UTC)

October 2017

Please do not remove maintenance templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to David McCourt, without resolving the problem that the template refers to, or giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your removal of this template does not appear constructive, and has been reverted. Thank you. Melcous (talk) 13:31, 5 October 2017 (UTC)

Reply

Hi and thanks for your message on my talk page. One key concern is that your user name gives the impression that you have a conflict of interest in editing this article, given that it is the same as the name of the PR firm that represents McCoourt. It is quite likely that your username is against wikipedia policy as well, as accounts may not be shared by multiple people or used to promote or advocate for anyone and user names cannot be the name of a company. Very importantly, if you are editing wikipedia as part of your job or in any way receiving payment for editing here, then it is required that you disclose this. So, firstly, can you please explain what your relationship is to the subject of this article and whether you are being paid to edit it? Thanks, Melcous (talk) 22:11, 5 October 2017 (UTC)