User talk:BankofIreland Cust Experience

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Hello, BankofIreland Cust Experience, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful: Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place  before the question. Again, welcome!  Ish dar  ian  09:29, 2 January 2014 (UTC)
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January 2014
Hello, BankofIreland Cust Experience. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Bank of Ireland, you may have a conflict of interest or close connection to the subject.

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For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Thank you.  Ish dar  ian  09:29, 2 January 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for your help, Ishdarian. What we're trying to do is stay neutral but remove errors on this page. For example the idea that the bank is part of a 'big four' is just plain wrong as it stands today. It may have accurately described the state of Irish banking in 2005 but not in 2014. However, this keeps getting changed back by editors. Fully accept the importance of neutrality. Can you help? BankofIreland Cust Experience (talk) 09:41, 2 January 2014 (UTC)


 * If you're concerned about inaccuracy, you should propose you changes on the Bank of Ireland talk page. Other editors can review your reasoning and decide whether to make the changes or not. Remember, all proposals should be based in policy and should be backed by reliable sources. If you provide a PR page or similar promotional language, then your proposal most likely won't gain traction.
 * On another note, you should really take a look at Username policy. Your username and the fact that you have used to pronoun we implies that this is a role account that may be used by multiple users, and that is against policy due to licensing issues.  Ish dar  ian  09:48, 2 January 2014 (UTC)


 * Reply to help me request: I have removed the help me template from this page because A) there are several users and administrators engaged in answering your questions, and B) there was no new specific question associated with the template. The only thing I have to add is that everyone who is accessing this obviously group account should carefully read the Wikipedia confict of interest policy.  It does not seem that has been done, at least not by the individual writing above.  The COI policy will explain exactly the issues you are asking about. —     Bill W.     (Talk)  (Contrib)  — 13:50, 2 January 2014 (UTC)

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If you believe this block was made in error, you may appeal this block by adding the text below, but you should read the guide to appealing blocks first. Yunshui 雲 ‍ 水  11:46, 2 January 2014 (UTC)


 * Ishdarian pointed out some of the issues here. However, if "trying to be neutral" for you means writing spam like "It supports people and businesses to grow to their full potential at every stage in their lives", I fear Wikipedia may be better off without your contributions. Furthermore, it took me less than a minute with Google to find this BBC report about the "Big Four" which, while it deals with Northern Ireland, clearly talks of precisely those four banks mentioned in Big Four (banking). So apparently that monicker was still in use as of 4 December 2013. Now the onus is on you to show that it has become inaccurate in the past four weeks. Huon (talk) 13:47, 2 January 2014 (UTC)