User talk:Lauraleedooley

August 2014
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Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, Lauraleedooley. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article World Resources Institute, you may have a conflict of interest or close connection to the subject.

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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. Ibadibam (talk) 22:26, 28 August 2014 (UTC)

If your user name is similar to your real name, you probably should not be editing the WRI article. It's a conflict of interest (see Conflict-of-interest editing on Wikipedia) and reflects badly on you and the organisation.

What's more problematic is the fact that this account, and another one with a similar username (User:Lldoolj2) have added copied content directly into Wikipedia from the WRI website. Twice now, that has lead to the WRI article being deleted as a copyright violation. Twice I had to sort through the 100+ edits to try to salvage usable content. Like most people around here, I am a volunteer - I don't get paid for editing Wikipedia. I believe that the WRI is an important organisation that should have an article in Wikipedia, but I'm not willing to do it indefinitely, especially if the reward for my effort is further insertion of copyright material.

You are encouraged to make suggestions on the article's talk page. Please use it. We appreciate your input. Guettarda (talk) 18:19, 10 September 2014 (UTC)


 * I have immense respect for what your organisation does. Please help us to work with you. Thanks. Guettarda (talk) 18:25, 10 September 2014 (UTC)