User talk:BookFestival

October 2020

 * 1) If you are connected to someone or something you have written about (a few examples are writing about yourself, your business, your band, a member of your family, your client) then you should be aware that Wikipedia's conflict of interest guideline discourages you from writing about that subject. The main reason for that is that experience over the years indicates that editors with such a connection to a subject they are writing about are likely to find it very difficult, or even impossible, to stand back from their writing and see how it will look from the detached perspective of an outsider, so that they are likely to write in ways that look promotional to others, even if they sincerely think they are writing in a neutral way. Also, if your editing forms all or part of work for which you are paid, whether as an employee, as a contractor, or in any other capacity, the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use require you to state who is paying you, and what your connection to them is.
 * 2) Your user name indicates that your account represents an organisation, but Wikipedia requires an account to be for  one person acting in their individual capacity. You should therefore not continue to edit using this account, but it would be ok to create a personal account with a name such as "Jo Smiles at book festival", which would comply with Wikipedia policy while also having the advantage of transparency about your connection to the festival.
 * 3) Wikipedia doesn't seek to present an organisation's own account of itself: that is for the organisation's own web site to do. We seek to report how a topic is covered by independent third-party sources. The abbreviation "EIBF" certainly is used, whether the festival uses it itself or not, so there is no justification for removing from the article the information that it is used. JBW (talk) 12:41, 15 October 2020 (UTC)