User talk:Kirkbohrer

October 2020
Please do not add promotional material to Wikipedia. While objective prose about beliefs, organisations, people, products or services is acceptable, Wikipedia is not a vehicle for soapboxing, advertising or promotion. Thank you. MrOllie (talk) 18:47, 30 October 2020 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, Kirkbohrer. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, 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:


 * avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization or competitors;
 * propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the request edit template);
 * disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see Conflict of interest);
 * avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see WP:Spam);
 * do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. MrOllie (talk) 18:50, 30 October 2020 (UTC)

Your Message
MrOllie

I'm responding to your two messages.

I'm trying to understand how to properly add factual information about my wife in the "Home Staging" page.

I certainly understand that I need to make changes to the info to be sure that it is not promotional, but the truth needs to be shared. The conflict of interest seems strange to me. If Alexander Graham Bell (or his wife or fellow inventors) wanted to share about how he invented the telephone how would he put that info in Wiki? The only people truly knowledgeable about the information ARE friends, family, business associates, colleiges, etc. Should I disclose who I am somehow?

Thank you for your help.

Kirkbohrer (talk) 20:27, 30 October 2020 (UTC)


 * Wikipedia is based on summarizing independently published sources - see policies like WP:UNDUE and WP:RS. If the only people who have this information are family and associates, you should get it published somewhere else first, like a newspaper or a book from a reputable publisher. - MrOllie (talk) 21:15, 30 October 2020 (UTC)

MrOllie
Mr Ollie

so if i quote from books published by Prentice Hall and Thomson Learning by Barb Schwarz or from newspaper articles written about Barb Schwarz i can footnote them and put it in?

Kirkbohrer (talk) 17:38, 31 October 2020 (UTC)


 * They should be independent, so books by Barb Schwarz are not going to work, but if some unrelated person has written a book about Barb Schwarz that would be fine. Similarly, newspaper articles that are simply interviews or are republishing statements are not going to work, but independently written articles will. In any case as a person with a conflict of interest you should not make such additions yourself, though you may make suggestions on article talk pages. See the Plain and simple conflict of interest guide - please do read it before continuing. - MrOllie (talk) 17:43, 31 October 2020 (UTC)