User talk:AMHSmarketing

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As an employee of the State of Alaska, Department of Transportation Alaska Marine Highway Division, how can I correct data that is incorrect? For instance, the wrong logo is being used and there are some grammatical errors. — Preceding unsigned comment added by AMHSmarketing (talk • contribs) 22:07, 31 October 2016 (UTC)
 * There are two basic issues at work here. The answers to those issues are explained in the welcome notice above with links to more detailed explanations, but in summary:
 * Your user name breaks our rules because it implies that it's used by the Marketing Office at AMHS. Even if you were the only marketing employee, it would still break that rule because the person behind the position could change at any time. In short each account here has to equate to just one person.
 * As for editing the article, you should post suggest edits on Talk:Alaska Marine Highway for anything except the most uncontroversial grammatical changes. Provide supporting sources, let others evaluate the change. They'll make the updates for you in the end.


 * I believe you can upload the correct logo yourself without third-party intervention, although you should also utilize the WP:OTRS process so that we can log a ticket verifying permissions, but I encourage you to read the linked guidelines above.  Imzadi 1979  →   22:41, 31 October 2016 (UTC)
 * If you find incorrect information but are directly connected to the subject in question (through a COI) then the best way to proceed is to make a post on the talk page of the article in question detailing what needs to be changed/added/fixed/etc. Place Request edit at the top of your post. Be sure to add references to verify the changes you want to make. In general, if you do not have a COI, you are welcome to edit the article directly, provided you give references to verify the changes you make. If you want more help, stop by the Teahouse, Wikipedia's live help channel, or the help desk to ask someone for assistance. Primefac (talk) 22:43, 31 October 2016 (UTC)


 * I looked at the AMHS website, and the logo there looks more or less the same. Where would one find this new logo? Beeblebrox (talk) 22:57, 31 October 2016 (UTC)

It is uploaded to Wikimedia Commons associated with this username. The one displayed was phased out over five years ago. — Preceding unsigned comment added by AMHSmarketing (talk • contribs) 23:25, 31 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Well, that's a problem, as it can'tbe hosted at commons. Commons is for free (as in free of copyright) images only. Luckily it's an easy fix, I've nominated it for deletion there, re-uploaded it locally here, added it to the article and deleted the old version. Beeblebrox (talk) 00:33, 1 November 2016 (UTC)

Thank you Beeblebrox. It is not an issue with following protocol, I get that. I am only trying to correct a major issue with a google knowledge graph. Since google won't help me resolve the customer service issue, I have resorted to the University of WWW and a couple articles said the most important thing to start with to resolve my google issue is to make sure the Wikipedia page for our organization is up to date. The logo was only the tip of the iceberg in terms of inaccuracies or outdated information on our wikipedia page. I now know I will have to painfully update one little item at a time to ensure our organization is accurately represented on a site that I cannot control content. — Preceding unsigned comment added by AMHSmarketing (talk • contribs) 19:26, 4 November 2016 (UTC)


 * I'm sorry to have to bring this back up, but you are also going to have to do something about your username before doing anything else. Your name is in direct contravention of Wikipedia policy and you simply cannot use it. Once that is done I'd be happy to assist you in updating the article.
 * Wikipedia is good at basic coverage but it is true that sometimes things are not kept current. With over five million articles things are naturally going to slip through the cracks here and there. While it would obviously be inappropriate for AMHS to directly control the article, it also undesirable for Wikipedia to contain incorrect or outdated information, so there's common ground here and it should be relatively easy to get everything up to date. Beeblebrox (talk) 20:19, 4 November 2016 (UTC)