User talk:Deb Holland

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Happy editing! ☆ Bri (talk) 19:43, 1 February 2023 (UTC)

Conflict of interest editing on Wikipedia
Hello, Deb Holland. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:


 * avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization, clients, or competitors;
 * propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the request edit template);
 * disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see Conflict of interest);
 * avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see Spam);
 * do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. ☆ Bri (talk) 19:43, 1 February 2023 (UTC)


 * How do we correct something that is incorrect on a listing such as the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally? Deb Holland (talk) 19:51, 1 February 2023 (UTC)
 * The Sturgis Motorcycle Rally is hosted by the City of Sturgis. We would like to clear up some mistakes on the Wikipedia page. Do I need to go through the request edit section each time someone lists something incorrect? Deb Holland (talk) 19:57, 1 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Just to clarify, before we proceed, are you representing the City of Sturgis? ☆ Bri (talk) 20:52, 1 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Yes. I am the Director of Communications for the City of Sturgis. 67.158.25.110 (talk) 21:22, 1 February 2023 (UTC)

Terrific, thanks for replying quickly to that. So you are what we call a "connected contributor" and there are some specific Terms of Service compliance for the Foundation who hosts Wikipedia, some policies you will need to follow (especially What Wikipedia is not), and some guidelines created by the community. I can sum this up by the best practices that apply. By the way, disclosing your connection for Terms of Service compliance can be done easily on your userpage following the procedures at Paid-contribution disclosure. I'll sum up the best practices by saying, yes, we encourage you to always request edits using Edit request at the talkpage of an article (for example Talk:Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, as well as posting connected contributor to the same talkpage. It really avoids all the bad problems that are well documented at Conflict-of-interest editing on Wikipedia that have gotten companies, government agencies, and individuals bad press and ill will. I'm keeping a watch on this page if you want to reply here. Alternatively you can engage other editors at various places including Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Motorcycling. ☆ Bri (talk) 22:39, 1 February 2023 (UTC)


 * Great. Thanks, Deb 67.158.25.110 (talk) 22:41, 1 February 2023 (UTC)