User talk:ShaunaRakuten

Hello ShuanaRakuten, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions, such as this one you made to Play.com. I hope you like the place and decide to stay.

However, I noticed, your edit was a violation of Wikipedia's Conflict of Interest guideline.

A Wikipedia conflict of interest (COI) is an incompatibility between the aim of Wikipedia, which is to produce a neutral, reliably sourced encyclopedia, and the aims of an individual editor. COI editing involves contributing to Wikipedia to promote your own interests, including your business or financial interests, or those of your external relationships, such as with family, friends or employers. When an external relationship undermines, or could reasonably be said to undermine, your role as a Wikipedian, you have a conflict of interest. This is often expressed as: when advancing outside interests is more important to an editor than advancing the aims of Wikipedia, that editor stands in a conflict of interest.

While editing Wikipedia, an editor's primary role is to be a Wikipedian. Any external relationship (any secondary role) may undermine that primary role, and when it does undermine it, or could reasonably be said to undermine it, that person has a conflict of interest. A judge's primary role as an impartial adjudicator would be undermined by her secondary role as the defendant's wife. A journalist's primary role as an unbiased investigator would be undermined by his secondary role as business partner of the subject of his investigation.

Michael Davis describes the "standard view" of conflict of interest:

However:

Editors who may have a general conflict of interest are allowed to make certain kinds of non-controversial edits (but note WP:NOPAY above). They may:


 * remove spam and revert unambiguous vandalism,
 * remove content that unambiguously violates the biography of living persons policy,
 * fix spelling and grammatical errors,
 * revert or remove their own COI edits,
 * make edits where there is clear consensus on the talk page (though it is better to let someone else do it), and
 * add reliable sources, especially when another editor has requested them (but note the advice above about the importance of using independent sources).

If the article you want to edit has few involved editors, consider asking someone at the talk page of a related Wikiproject for someone to make the change.

If another editor objects for any reason, then it's a controversial edit. Such edits should be discussed on the article's talk page.

For more information on Wikipedia's conflict of interest guideline, visit WP:COI.

Thank you for your contributions.  CookieMonster755  (talk)   19:48, 27 March 2015 (UTC)