User talk:MeredithC

Welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your username, "Hollisterincorporated", may not comply with our username policy. Please note that you may not use a username that represents the name of a company, group, organization, product, or website. Examples of usernames that are not allowed include "XYZ Company", "MyWidgetsUSA.com", and "Trammel Museum of Art". However, you are invited to use a username that contains such a name if it identifies you personally, such as "Mark at WidgetsUSA", "Jack Smith at the XY Foundation", and "WidgetFan87".

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Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, Hollisterincorporated. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Hollister Inc and disambiguation page Hollister, you may have a conflict of interest. People with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, see the conflict of interest guideline and frequently asked questions for organizations. In particular, please:


 * avoid editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, its competitors, or projects and products you or they are involved with;
 * instead, propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (see the template);
 * avoid linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see WP:SPAM);
 * exercise great caution so that you do not violate Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use require disclosure of your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation.

Please familiarize yourself with relevant policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, sourcing, and autobiographies. Thank you. TJRC (talk) 23:00, 15 December 2015 (UTC)

Hollister Inc
MeredithC (talk) 19:46, 16 December 2015 (UTC) MeredithC
 * It is important to note that Hollister Incorporated is an independent, employee-owned and global company. Open to your suggestions on how best to communicate that to this entry without breaking guidelines.
 * The inclusion and mention of Coloplast as being "much larger" has no bearing on this entry, and can not be substantiated.


 * Hi, MeredithC. Thank you for taking this route to editing the article where you have a COI.


 * Please place your proposed edit on the article's talk page, and be specific in the changes you propose. Ideally, you should state the text as it currently exists, and then your proposed replacement.  Placing it on the article's talk page, rather than your user talk page, is important, because it will be more likely to get before the eyeballs of editors who edit that article.  (If the proposed text had been clear, I wouldn't have let that stand in the way of making your change; but you'll have more success if you put it in the right place.)  TJRC (talk) 20:14, 16 December 2015 (UTC)


 * Oh, also, please make sure you include a reference, from a source other than the Hollister company itself, that supports the changes you propose. The article is pretty scanty on references, so most of the material in it is unsupported; but let's not make it worse. TJRC (talk) 20:17, 16 December 2015 (UTC)