User talk:Emilyatthent

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Hello, Emilyatthent, and welcome to Wikipedia!&#32;Thank you for your contributions.

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited was Royal National Theatre, which 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.

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on talk pages using 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! Pam D  15:08, 15 August 2018 (UTC)


 * Hallo Emily, the above is a standard templated message. Your username says that you are "at the NT", so suggests you have some level of WP:COI. If you are doing this as part of your job, or are being paid as a freelance to edit Wikipedia for the theatre, you must read the info above about paid editing and make the necessary declarations, and you should not edit the Royal National Theatre page yourself but just make suggestions, with sources, on the talk page. If you are a volunteer, not associated with the NT but writing in Wikipedia out of sheer enthusiasm, you would do well to state this clearly on your user page so that other editors don't raise the same concern. Happy editing! Pam  D  15:15, 15 August 2018 (UTC)


 * Let's keep the conversation in one place. You replied on my talk page:
 * Hi Pam, thanks for your message - you are right, I'm an employee, I didn't think about COI. If you'd like to remove all edits made today, that's fine. The things I did put in today I put a number of citations on and I believe to be pretty objective fact, so it would be great to get your view on if they can stay.


 * Either way, the page is quite out of date and missing key information so I will look through the pages you've shared on how to do that through the proper processes and submit some stuff! Thanks for raising and sorry! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Emilyatthent (talk • contribs) 5:30 pm, Yesterday (UTC+1)


 * I'm not an expert on the details of COI, but at Conflict of interest/Noticeboard it says Editors who have such a connection can still comply with the COI guideline by discussing proposed article changes first, or by making uncontroversial edits. ... However, paid editing without disclosure is prohibited.


 * I've had a sketchy look at your edits on the NT, and they all seem to be pretty much "uncontroversial". (I've moved "origins" back to the top, as historical background usually comes first in WP articles, but that's nothing controversial, just style). But you do need to declare the fact of being employed by the NT, as explained at Conflict_of_interest. You should declare both on your own user page and on the talk page of the NT article, and any other article you edit in connection with the NT (eg about a person or production). See Paid-contribution_disclosure.


 * I noticed that a lot of your sourcing is to the NT website: it's good to include more external references to Reliable Sources rather than relying too much on the NT's own info. I hope that's all fairly clear.


 * There's a lot to learn about editing Wikipedia but it's an interesting journey. Happy Editing! Pam  D  14:09, 16 August 2018 (UTC)


 * Hi Pam - thanks for all this, and for taking the time to go through my edits. I'm glad it all looks ok to you - and I can see why referencing from other sources is a good rule too. I'll go back through and see how much of it I can switch to external articles. Definitely still getting the hang of how to use Wiki correctly (I'm probably doing something about this message wrong!) but looking forward to getting into the swing of things, and to contributing on some other topics where there isn't a COI issue too. Will make the various updates to my profile and make sure I'm thoroughly read on the guidelines before suggesting any further changes to the NT page :) Thanks again! Emilyatthent (talk) 14:23, 16 August 2018 (UTC)

Wikipedia and copyright
Hello Emilyatthent, and welcome to Wikipedia. All or some of your addition(s) to Royal National Theatre have been removed, as they appear to have added copyrighted material without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. While we appreciate your contributions to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from sources to avoid copyright and plagiarism issues here.


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It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. — Ninja Diannaa (Talk) 20:35, 16 August 2018 (UTC)