User talk:Joiedevivre2010

Username and account role
First, WP:WELCOME to Wikipedia, and thanks for identifying yourself as an (apparent) representative of the hotel group. I"m happy to have initiated this article back in 2008 and would like to help anyway I can to keep it accurate, fair, comprehensive, and up to date.

There are a few rules you should be aware of. First and foremost, accounts on Wikipedia are for individuals, not organizations. It is allowable to be anonymous, but also allowable to publicly identify who you are or say who you're affiliated with. However, it is against the rules to claim to have a "role account" to edit on behalf of a group, as opposed to for yourself. There are a few reasons for that, which I'm not completely aware of. I think it's possible a rule of one person, one account. If you follow the page at WP:ROLE down to the bold section on "role accounts", and the links from there, it probably explains it. In the meanwhile you should seriously consider changing your user name, or because you have no history to protect here, just sign up under a different name. There is a good chance this account will be blocked from editing per the user name policy.

The second is WP:COI (conflict of interest). It doesn't absolutely prohibit editing a company article as an employee but there are some thing to be careful about. Adding uncontroversial facts, with proper sourcing, is usually fine. If it gets to subjective or controversial stuff, there's often some difficulty. But feel free to use the talk page of this article to ask for help, and you can contact me on my user talk page (or Wikipedia email, though I rarely check) anytime. There are also some notice boards to ask for help.

I love your hotels, BTW. Perhaps that makes me biased :)

Best,

- Wikidemon (talk) 23:30, 13 December 2010 (UTC)

Hi Wikidemon,

Thank you so much for your sage comments. I am in fact with Joie de Vivre and we only want to add factual information; I am totally in understanding of the conflict of interest parameters however. I will follow your advice :)

Wasn't sure how to leave you a message on your page as I didn't see a "Talk" tab.

Thanks again, Joie de Vivre Joiedevivre2010 (talk)


 * Oh, in case you're still reading this my talk page is protected against editing by brand new accounts. After a few days and/or a number of edits, that restriction goes away on an account.  I didn't ask for that, but one of the administrators must have noticed some online harassment.  It comes with the territory.  Best, - Wikidemon (talk) 21:39, 14 December 2010 (UTC)