User talk:PhiladelphiaDCCOffice

February 2022
If you are connected to someone or something you have written about (a few examples are writing about yourself, your business, your band, a member of your family, your client) then you should be aware that Wikipedia's conflict of interest guideline discourages you from writing about that subject. The main reason for that is that experience over the years indicates that editors with such a connection to a subject they are writing about are likely to find it very difficult, or even impossible, to stand back from their writing and see how it will look from the detached perspective of an outsider, so that they are likely to write in ways that look promotional to others, even if they sincerely think they are writing in a neutral way. Also, if your editing forms all or part of work for which you are paid, whether as an employee, as a contractor, or in any other capacity, the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use require you to state who is paying you, and what your connection to them is. (To avoid the possibility of a surprisingly common misunderstanding, editing is part of paid work if it is done as part of normal employment or as part of a work to a contract, whether or not a specific payment earmarked for editing Wikipedia is made.) Also Wikipedia policy requires a user account to be for an individual editor acting in a personal capacity, and doesn't allow accounts whixh represent organisations, as yours evidently does, so you should not continue to edit under your present username. However, a username such as "J Doe at Philadelphia DCC Office" would be fine, and would have the advantage of indicating that the account is an individual one while at the same time providing transparency as to your connection to the subject you have edited about. JBW (talk) 17:16, 18 February 2022 (UTC)