User talk:NancyMorrisonLogitech

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Hello, NancyMorrisonLogitech, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful: Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing 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! Begoon &thinsp; talk 19:07, 28 October 2013 (UTC)
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Logitech
Thanks for your update to the article.

If, as your username implies, you work for the company, you should read WP:COI. I'm also going to leave you a long spiel about that below, sorry it's a bit impersonal, but it's quicker and more accurate for me to leave the template than try to inaccurately rephrase it all. Also, the citation for "headquarters" could do with an update - I found it very difficult searching the company website to actually ascertain just what the "headquarters" location should be. Begoon &thinsp; talk 19:13, 28 October 2013 (UTC)

October 2013
If you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Logitech, you may have a conflict of interest or close connection to the subject.

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Please familiarize yourself with relevant content policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, verifiability of information, and autobiographies.

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.  See, I said it was impersonal - sorry... Begoon &thinsp; talk  19:15, 28 October 2013 (UTC)

Talkback
Begoon &thinsp; talk 21:59, 31 October 2013 (UTC)

hello from 74
Hello Nancy, I noticed your conversation with Begoon over on their talkpage. Thanks for adding facts to wikipedia, I appreciate it. Your specific questions:


 * 1)  new logo -- have you figured out how to upload images?  the page might retain the old logo, in the 'history' section
 * 2)  new offices -- same as above
 * 3)  newark and lausanne -- suggest you write up a paragraph for the article-talkpage (see detailed steps below), explaining how the corporation is organized, and the roles of the different offices
 * 4)  discontinued products -- sure, this is non-controversial info, and can be sourced by a reference to the logitech website saying when the product was EOL'd.  Rather than say 'discontinued' with no further information, best practice is to specify *when* things happened.  We have a saying around here, 'Notability is not temporary', which means that just because a product is discontinued now, does not mean we delete it from wikipedia.  (We might move long-discontinued products to a history-section of the article, though.)

Please feel to ask me your other questions, as they come up. Here is my general overview, of how to stay neutral. I tried to keep it short, but it's still pretty long, Sorry about that. :-)

As you probably have noticed by now, people around here are a bit prickly about employees of the company, editing articles concerning the company or the products. This is not your fault, and nobody is accusing you of doing anything wrong. The metaphor here is like a family: most folks love their gramma, and if their gramma had a wikipedia page, they would not be able to edit that article without inherently being just a wee little bit biased. :-)    So, it's generally a good idea to avoid editing the Logitech article *directly* yourself, except for very-obviously-non-controversial stuff.  Instead, post a note on Talk:Logitech -- or whatever Logitech-related article you are working with -- asking somebody uninvolved to make the changes for you.  That bit of indirection acts as a real-world bias-check, which helps keep wikipedia articles neutral, and just-the-facts.  You can suggest exact language on the talkpage, of course:  just do your best to be careful, neutral, and reliably-sourced.  (You *can* use the logitech websites as sources for *most* things about the company or the products -- see WP:ABOUTSELF -- but you cannot use it as a source/ref/cite when making claims about awards won, deals closed, units shipped, profits earned, or similar. Use a newspaper/webzine/etc which is *independent* and third-party and reliable for things like that.)

If you post something on the talkpage, and nobody responds for a few days, feel free to put the changes directly into the article yourself, and leave a note on the talkpage saying what you did. This won't be necessary on the main company-article, prolly, but some of the less-well-known products that have dedicated pages may not have as many uninvolved editors hanging around. Here's my recommended steps:


 * 1)  compose the change you would like to see, being careful to remain neutral-not-promotional and reliably-sourced
 * 2)  post your suggested change on the article-talkpage
 * 3)  wait three days, if nobody responds, then put a note saying you'll insert the change yourself
 * 4)  put your change into the main article

Of course, when people *do* respond, try and take their suggestions. Once everybody is satisfied, if they want to make the edit to mainspace themselves, that is usually best, but if they suggest changes on the talkpage, you can always offer to put the final-consensus-version into mainspace yourself, to save them the time -- leave it up to the other editor.

Hope this helps. You can reply here if you like. If I don't respond promptly, please feel to message me on my talkpage. Thanks for improving wikipedia, talk to you later. 74.192.84.101 (talk) 04:00, 4 November 2013 (UTC)

fixed links to computer & tablet peripherals
Hi Nancy, I made a technical correction to your changes, click here to see what I did.

If you insert something in between the double-brackets, you are changing where the link points. In cases where the link turns from blue Computer peripherals into a red Computer and tablet peripherals, that means that wikipedia has no article by that name. Instead, you can change it to be like Computer peripherals and tablet peripherals so that you have two blue links. If you prefer, you can write it instead like this instead:  Computer and  tablet peripherals. Use the preview-button, to see what your changes will look like.

Also, remember that just because the link is blue, does not mean it goes where you think it should. Try this out: tablet.

HTH. 74.192.84.101 (talk) 04:20, 4 November 2013 (UTC)

Need help with changing an image
I have a new image of the Logitech building. It is posted on the Logitech website and there is text below the image granting unlimited rights to the image. I would like to insert this image in place of the current one because Logitech moved to the new office in Newark, Calif in 2012. (The current one could remain as an historical image (Logitech office in Fremont, Calif. from 1987 to 2012)

The link to the website is http://www.logitech.com/en-us/corporate/articles/3964

I just don't know how to add/replace the image.

Thanks,

Nancy

NancyMorrisonLogitech (talk) 18:38, 7 January 2014 (UTC)