User talk:BricePraslicka

Welcome!
Hi, BricePraslicka. Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Our intro page contains a lot of helpful material for new users—please check it out! If you need help, visit Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place   on this page, followed by your question, and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Joseph2302 (talk) 22:22, 8 July 2015 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, BricePraslicka. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you have an external relationship with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Bottle Rocket Studios, you may have a conflict of interest or close connection to the subject.

All editors are required to comply with Wikipedia's neutral point of view content policy. People who are very close to a subject often have a distorted view of it, which may cause them to inadvertently edit in ways that make the article either too flattering or too disparaging. People with a close connection to a subject are not absolutely prohibited from editing about that subject, but they need to be especially careful about ensuring their edits are verified by reliable sources and writing with as little bias as possible.

If you are very close to a subject, here are some ways you can reduce the risk of problems:


 * Avoid or exercise great caution when editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with.
 * Avoid linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Spam).
 * Exercise great caution so that you do not accidentally breach Wikipedia's content policies.

Please familiarize yourself with relevant content policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, verifiability of information, and autobiographies. Note that Wikipedia's terms of use require disclosure of your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation.

For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Joseph2302 (talk) 22:23, 8 July 2015 (UTC)

As the "new website and social media manager of Bottle Rocket Studios", you have a conflict of interest with this article. As such, you are discouraged from directly editing the article, instead you are encouraged to suggest changes at the article talkpage. Also note that Wikipedia is an encyclopedia and not a social network and therefore your job role doesn't actually require you to edit Wikipedia, as it's not a social media platform for your company. Joseph2302 (talk) 22:27, 8 July 2015 (UTC)

Notice of Conflict of interest noticeboard discussion
This message is being sent to inform you that there is currently a discussion at Conflict of interest/Noticeboard regarding a possible conflict of interest incident in which you may be involved. Thank you. When I said "do not directly edit the article", I meant it. Stop trying to turn the article into a company puff piece. Joseph2302 (talk) 23:10, 8 July 2015 (UTC)

Progress with Company Page
Thank you for sending me so many resources and pages of information about how I can best get the page up to speed. I have been compiling the previously mentioned resources and reading up as I go.

Is there any specific deadline you or Wikipedia expects to see the page fully updated and up to community standards by?

I have begun to make minor edits and editions to the BR Studios page and will continue to make more noticeable and substantial changes throughout the rest of the week. I plan to remove most of the information stating their work and other simple sources and focus more on telling the actual and unabridged history of the company. (regardless of whether or not it shines a positive or negative light on the company)

I will more than likely delete many of my comments on the "Articles for Deletion" page in order to get rid of the clutter. If this is not recommended, please let me know.

Otherwise, have a great afternoon and thank you again for all of the resources and your expedience in your communication on this matter. BricePraslicka (talk) 23:16, 8 July 2015 (UTC)


 * Please read WP:COI. For about the third time, you should not be directly editing this article due to your conflict of interest, instead you should suggest changes at the article talkpage, that should be neutral tone (unlike the advertising you added a few minutes ago), and supported by reliable sources. Also, don't remove all the sourced content like you said you will, because Wikipedia relies on verifiability from reliable sources, whereas "focus more on telling the actual and unabridged history of the company" is not neutral tone, encyclopedic content- the above post shows exactly why you shouldn't be editing the article, but suggesting changes instead, as your inexperience and conflict of interest will obviously hinder your editing. As for a deadline, in general Wikipedia has no deadline, however there is currently a deletion discussion- this lasts for a minimum of 7 days, and an admin can close it anytime after 7 days if there is a WP:CONSENSUS.
 * Also, don't remove your comments at the AfD, it confuses the entire discussion if comments are removed. Joseph2302 (talk) 23:23, 8 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Please reply here, as I like all discussions to be in 1 place. Joseph2302 (talk) 23:23, 8 July 2015 (UTC)
 * And another thing, it's not "your company page" as you keep labelling it- it's an article on Wikipedia, the encyclopedia that anyone can edit, which happens to be about your company, but is not owned by your company. Please stop referring to it as a "company page". Joseph2302 (talk) 23:28, 8 July 2015 (UTC)


 * Again, I am very sorry for my breach of community guidelines. I understand now a little more what is going on and will proceed as you have stated by requesting edits on the article talkpage. I will continue to read up on the guidelines and familiarize myself entirely before proceeding with any further action. I was caught off guard by the situation and panicked to solve a problem that I only amplified.
 * Thank you again for equipping me with the information needed to be brought up to speed on the Wikipedia article editing process in this kind of situation. BricePraslicka (talk) 23:37, 8 July 2015 (UTC)