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September 27[edit]

How to declare that I am an Oracle employee on my talk page to disclose the WP:COI?[edit]

I am an Oracle employee trying to update the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_Database page. One of the reviewers rejects all my updates on the page and ask me to declare my WP:COI. How can I do that in order to continue the work to update the Oracle Database page that needs corrections? JFVerrier (talk) 13:56, 27 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia is not the place to advertise what Oracle can do. You need to comply with WP:COI and WP:Paid, then you should suggest changes on the talk page of the article. Please note that Wikipedia reports only what is written in WP:Reliable sources, so you should provide these sources along with your suggestions. Wikipedia itself is not a reliable source. Dbfirs 15:36, 27 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

And any suggestions for changes should be strictly factual info, like "Press release nnnn announced that Oracle Vxxx.xxx.xxxx will be released on mm-dd-yyyy". Any qualitative comparisons like "Oracle is considered the best because..." should be avoided. SinisterLefty (talk) 17:45, 27 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

In principle there are a bunch of complicated rules for this. In practice it's probably best to not edit the article directly, but instead edit the talk page, saying "the article contains error X and it should instead say Y", giving a source if possible, and stating your relationship with Oracle. For noncontroversial things (Oracle DB supports the BLAH operation as of version 12.34), Oracle documentation or press releases should be ok as sources. For controversial things it's better to use independent, third-party sources. 173.228.123.207 (talk) 00:29, 28 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

JFVerrier - To answer the original question, you declare that you have a conflict of interest (COI) by (a) creating the page User:JFVerrier [if that link is red, then the page doesn't exist - click on the red link to start the page], and (b) Posting a note on that page that you are an Oracle employee, and that you will follow the WP:COI guideline. After you do (a) and (b), save (publish) your edit. Now you're good to go. -- John Broughton (♫♫) 05:13, 29 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]