User talk:Guypporter

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Hello, Guypporter, 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! —C.Fred (talk) 14:00, 6 January 2014 (UTC)
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Be careful if you have an off-Wikipedia connection to topics you wish to edit on Wikipedia
Hello, Guypporter. 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 Crafts Council, 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.
 * Be cautious about deletion discussions. Everyone is welcome to provide information about independent sources in deletion discussions, but avoid advocating for deletion of articles about your competitors.
 * 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.

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.

Incidentally, looking at the history of the Crafts Council article, it looks like the reverts in question were due to copyright violation. Even if the Council were to donate text from its website to allow for free usage of it, the text would probably fail the neutral point of view guidelines and need to be edited. —C.Fred (talk) 14:00, 6 January 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for your quick response. thanks also for highlighting the problems associated with COI and neutral points of view in relation to wikipedia's editorial policy. However, we are a charitable organisation and would like to explore ways in which we can further illustrate our work and output using this wikipedia entry. Any further advice, including any specific points relating to the previous listed copy, would be greatly appreciated. Guypporter (talk) 16:11, 6 January 2014 (UTC)