User talk:Katie Willison

Hello, Katie Willison. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Balfour Beatty, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:


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Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Please also note that you need reliable independent sources (wikipedia cannot be used as a source). Dormskirk (talk) 16:18, 30 August 2022 (UTC)

September 2022
As previously advised, your edits, such as the edit you made to Balfour Beatty, give the impression you have a financial stake in promoting a topic, but you have not complied with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. You were asked to cease editing until you responded by either stating that you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits, or by complying with the mandatory requirements under the Wikimedia Terms of Use that you disclose your employer, client and affiliation. Again, you can post such a disclosure on your user page at User:Katie Willison, and the template Paid can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form:. Please respond before making any other edits to Wikipedia. I note you made further promotional edits today to the Balfour Beatty article, where you may have a conflict of interest, and so would be required to make an appropriate disclosure. Paul W (talk) 14:22, 6 September 2022 (UTC)


 * Hi Paul,
 * I can assure you that I am not being compensated for my edits. I am just trying to update the notable projects to include recent projects and a few other minor edits. For example, Balfour Beatty doesn't operate in Ireland anymore so it would be ideal to take that out. I understand wikipedia is not a credible source but I can see that the other projects are linked to a wiki page, I dont understand why the projects I add in now can't be linked to a wiki page too. Katie Willison (talk) 14:54, 6 September 2022 (UTC)


 * Katie - Please read WP:CIRCULAR: "Do not use articles from Wikipedia (whether English Wikipedia or Wikipedias in other languages) as sources since Wikipedia is considered as a user-generated source." As regards linking projects to another wikipedia page, the projects need to be notable with their own properly sourced wikipedia page. Also please note the point above "avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization, clients, or competitors". If you do work for Balfour Beatty you must disclose it. Dormskirk (talk) 15:00, 6 September 2022 (UTC)
 * You appear to be solely focused on editing the page about Balfour Beatty, a WP:SPA concentration that suggests you may be employed either directly or indirectly by the company. If so, your paid employment means you are engaging in paid editing in contravention of the Wikimedia Terms of Use. Good practice for editors in such situations would be not to edit the page directly, but to request edits via the article's Talk page (and this would also apply to editing other articles related to Balfour Beatty projects, people, customers, competitors, etc). If you are working for BB, please make the appropriate disclosure on your user page as requested above.
 * As regards Wikipedia page links, there is a difference between wikilinking to a relevant article (encouraged) and using that article as a source (inappropriate). Wikipedia is not a reliable source (WP:RS) - see WP:WINARS for a more detailed explanation. Many Wikipedia pages have lists of notable things - projects in the case of the Balfour Beatty article - but projects should only be added to the list if they meet Wikipedia WP: notability criteria, usually evidenced by there being an existing, reliably sourced article about them. Paul W (talk) 15:26, 6 September 2022 (UTC)