User talk:Julieb SMART

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

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited was Smart Technologies, 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.

To reduce the chances of your contributions being undone, you might like to draft your revised article before submission, and then ask me or another editor to proofread it. See our help page on userspace drafts for more details. If the page you created has already been deleted from Wikipedia, but you want to save the content from it to use for that draft, don't hesitate to ask anyone from this list and they will copy it to your user page.

One rule we do have in connection with conflicts of interest is that accounts used by more than one person will unfortunately be blocked from editing. Wikipedia generally does not allow editors to have usernames which imply that the account belongs to a company or corporation. If you have a username like this, you should request a change of username or create a new account. (A name that identifies the user as an individual within a given organization may be OK.)

In addition, if you receive, or expect to receive, compensation for any contribution you make, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation to comply with our terms our use and policy on paid editing.

Here are some pages that you might find helpful:
 * The plain and simple conflict of interest guide
 * The five pillars of Wikipedia
 * Contributing to Wikipedia
 * Tutorial
 * How to edit a page and How to develop articles
 * How to create your first article (using the Article Wizard if you wish)
 * Simplified Manual of Style

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! HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 15:04, 17 July 2018 (UTC)

Conflict of interest
You have a conflict of interest and are required to make the appropriate declarations. Please do not edit any further until you have read and understood WP:COI, WP:PAID, and WP:PROMO, and made the necessary declaration. --Yamla (talk) 15:08, 17 July 2018 (UTC)

Paid editing in Wikipedia
Hi Julieb SMART. I spend time working on conflict of interest issues here in Wikipedia, along with my regular editing. I am not an administrator. Your edits to date and username suggest that you work for Smart Technologies ‎. Lots of people come to Wikipedia with some sort of conflict of interest and are not aware of how the editing community defines and manages conflict of interest. You have already been given notice of the relevant policies and guidelines, but I find that some dialogue and explanation usually helps.

So..Wikipedia is a widely-used reference work and managing conflict of interest is essential for ensuring the integrity of Wikipedia and retaining the public's trust in it. Unmanaged conflicts of interest can also lead to people behaving in ways that violate our behavioral policies and cause disruption in the normal editing process. Managing conflict of interest well, also protects conflicted editors themselves - please see WP:Wikipedia is in the real world, and Conflict-of-interest editing on Wikipedia for some guidance and stories about people who have brought bad press upon themselves through unmanaged conflict of interest editing.

As in academia, COI is managed here in two steps - disclosure and a form of peer review. Please note that there is no bar to being part of the Wikipedia community if you want to be involved in articles where you have a conflict of interest or are paid; there are just some things we ask you to do (and if you are paid, some things you need to do).

Disclosure is the most important, and first, step. Here in Wikipedia such disclosures must be made explicitly. Would you please disclose your connection with Smart Technologies? After you respond (and you can just reply below), I can walk you through the formalities of disclosure and the the rest of the process, and also provide some orientation as to what Wikipedia is and is not, and how the editing community functions. Jytdog (talk) 17:23, 17 July 2018 (UTC)

You were warned multiple times about this and have refused to abide by WP:COI and WP:PAID. I don't object to your edits, only to your refusal to declare your conflict of interest. Any admin is free to immediately unblock you once you have done so. --Yamla (talk) 19:32, 11 December 2018 (UTC)