User talk:BOLfoods

June 2022
Welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your username, "BOLfoods", may not meet Wikipedia's username policy because It might imply shared use for a company. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. As an alternative, you may ask for a change of username by completing the form at Special:GlobalRenameRequest, or you may simply create a new account for editing. Thank you. SPF121188 (talk this way) (contribs) 12:21, 27 June 2022 (UTC)


 * Hi SPF121188, I have set up this account for the company BOLfoods, so we can create a page/article for our business. Let me know if this isn't the usual practice or if I need to request another account type. Thanks, Scott BOLfoods (talk) 13:01, 27 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Hello again! I left a welcome message below that may help you out. If you have other questions, let me know and I'll do my best to answer them. SPF121188  (talk this way) (contribs) 13:35, 27 June 2022 (UTC)


 * Please also note that Wikipedia has articles about subjects, not "pages" that are owned or controlled by their subjects. A company must meet Wikipedia's notability criteria to be considered worthy of inclusion; it isn't entitled to have an article just because it exists. In addition to changing your username to something that represents you as an individual and not a company, you must also disclose any employment or paid relationship with them in accordance with the mandatory paid editing disclosure policy. --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 16:01, 27 June 2022 (UTC)

Welcome!
Hello, BOLfoods, and welcome to Wikipedia!&#32;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.&#32;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

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