User talk:James the least

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Hello, James the least, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion 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! -- Jytdog (talk) 20:28, 10 June 2015 (UTC)
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Conflict of interest in Wikipedia, including disputes with living people
hi James the least. I work on Conflict of Interest (COI) issues in Wikipedia, and saw your post here. I am providing you notice of our COI guideline, and of our policy about articles that are Biographies of living people.

Hello, James the least. 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 on Wikipedia, 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. Thank you.

Please also read WP:BLPCOI

Comments/questions
Wikipedia is a widely used reference work, and managing COI is essential for ensuring the integrity of Wikipedia and retaining the public's trust in it.

As you have had a bad experience with the people and organizations that you wrote about, I need to warn you to keep in mind that:
 * WP:BLP forbids writing anything negative about a person that is not supported by reliable sources (WP:RS) - and this includes all Talk pages.
 * Your bad relationship with the organization creates a COI with that organization.

I am sorry that you had a bad experience (I am) but you cannot bring that into Wikipedia.

So on both counts, please be very careful what you write on article talk pages, and please do not edit articles about those subjects directly, but rather make concrete, sourced suggestions for changes to content on article Talk pages, and base your arguments very clearly on Wikipedia's content policies and guidelines, and not on your personal opinion; please do not discuss your personal opinions in Wikipedia.

Will you please agree to do that? Thanks. Jytdog (talk) 20:37, 10 June 2015 (UTC)


 * I can certainly agree to that. My apologies for overstepping. Of course you are correct that it is inappropriate. James the least (talk) 22:38, 10 June 2015 (UTC)
 * wonderful. i am sorry again for your bad experience. You are free to do things like nominate the article for deletion and !vote there, and of course to propose well-sourced, neutrally worded changes to the article on its talk page.  Good luck to you, and thanks again. Jytdog (talk) 23:27, 10 June 2015 (UTC)