User talk:ArtistInWordyThings/sandbox

Hey, ArtistInWordyThings,

You seem to be new around here. I'd like to direct your attention to Wikipedia's policy guidelines about conflict-of-interest editing. The short version is that conflict-of-interest editing, which "involves contributing to Wikipedia to promote your own interests, including your business or financial interests, or those of your external relationships, such as with family, friends or employers," is strongly discouraged. An editor with a conflict of interest is advised to read over the guidelines on the page and proceed very carefully. Pointing out that your edits are corrections from Dr. Noda himself is also potentially problematic, as the subject of a Wikipedia page is generally discouraged from editing his own page in order to keep the whole site neutral and encyclopedic.

It might look more professional if your company created an actual bio page on its company website, rather than sending people to Wikipedia. While it's great that Dr. Noda is currently deemed noteworthy enough to have his own Wikipedia page, you run the risk of looking really foolish if the page gets deleted because somebody else decides he's NOT noteworthy, perhaps due to implicit violations of Wikipedia's conflict of interest policy. And since the page you created is a Wikipedia page and anyone can edit it, if anything unpleasant ever turns up about either the company or Dr. Noda, there will be no way to keep it off the page; trying to censor content from a Wikipedia page for public-relations reasons is a good way to get a user account banned. &mdash; Semisomna (talk) 17:35, 30 August 2014 (UTC) (not a moderator or anything, just a concerned party)