User talk:SurficialGeo

Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, SurficialGeo. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest 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 (see the request edit template);
 * disclose your conflict of interest 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).

Also please note that editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. MrOllie (talk) 13:55, 29 April 2019 (UTC)


 * Yes, I was acting on behalf of my employer. While I felt that I was using "neutral" language, I understand and appreciate the necessity of guarding against commercialization of Wikipedia. I am studying Wikipedia's terms of use and policies on conflict of interest. In the future I will be sure to disclose my relationship to my employer and rather than edit pages directly, I will request edits on talk pages of affected articles. My apologies and thank you for your patient instruction. SurficialGeo (talk) 18:37, 2 May 2019 (UTC)