User talk:Sheila Ritchie

Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, Sheila Ritchie. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the page Sheila Ritchie, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the COI guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:


 * avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, company, organization or competitors;
 * propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the request edit template);
 * disclose your COI when discussing affected articles (see WP:DISCLOSE);
 * avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see WP:SPAM);
 * do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID).

Editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Gaia Octavia Agrippa Talk 16:46, 29 May 2019 (UTC)

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Hello, Sheila Ritchie. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the page Sheila Ritchie, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the COI guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:

avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, company, organization or competitors; propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the template); disclose your COI when discussing affected articles (see WP:DISCLOSE); avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see WP:SPAM); do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies. In addition, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID).

Editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Gaia Octavia Agrippa Talk 16:46, 29 May 2019 (UTC)

Firstly, my apologies for not knowing and not checking these rules. I've just changed the page again.

I'm not sure where the "request edit" template is, but what I just did was to remove the reference to my being a successor to David Coburn. It's a bit difficult to explain what I find that particularly offensive, but it is also untrue.

Not being paid for any of this — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sheila Ritchie (talk • contribs) 19:12, 1 June 2019 (UTC)


 * You can find the edit request template here. The blue links above will take you to further pages with greater details.
 * The reference to your predecessor in the box (we call them infoboxes) is not a reference to your party predecessor but the individual who's seat you took through the D'Hondt method of assigning seats. This was complicated by having two people keeping their seats, and therefore is not a straightforward 1 to 1, 2 to 2 etc. Perhaps you can feel reassured that you won your seat from Coburn rather than being his successor in other meanings of the word?
 * Please read WP:COISELF. This will explain when you can edit your own page. Please be aware that you do not own an article even when it is about you and therefore shouldn't add or ask others to add to it on your behalf. On the other hand, if there are things that are blatantly false, libellous or too personal, you may remove them yourself (as per WP:AUTO). Further details on this can be found at WP:COISELF.
 * With your permission, I would like to put a box on your user page that links this account to the Sheila Ritchie article. In cases such as this, Wikipedia strives for transparency. Thank you, Gaia Octavia Agrippa Talk 20:48, 1 June 2019 (UTC)
 * PS, please edit make any further edits with this account rather than while signed out. If you would like something removed but wouldn't like others to publicly know that its you, please contact a volunteer through this process and they will do it for you. Gaia Octavia Agrippa Talk 20:52, 1 June 2019 (UTC)