User talk:TraceyDJackson

Conflict of interest
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 * [[Image:Stop hand nuvola.svg|30px|alt=Stop icon]] Your recent edits could give Wikipedia contributors the impression that you may consider legal or other "off-wiki" action against them, or against Wikipedia itself. Please note that making such threats on Wikipedia is strictly prohibited under Wikipedia's policies on legal threats and civility. Users who make such threats may be blocked. If you have a dispute with the content of any page on Wikipedia, please follow the proper channels for dispute resolution. Please be sure to comment on content, not contributors, and where possible make specific suggestions for changes supported by reliable independent sources and focusing especially on verifiable errors of fact. Thank you.


 * I need to warn you about editing with a conflict of interest. It's highly discouraged on Wikipedia because it's very, very easy to write about one's self in a positive light. I also need to let you know that if you are Jackson, that there is a discussion about you on the administrator's notice page, where one editor has stated that she was sent legal threats via e-mail. (Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents) Wikipedia tends to discourage making legal threats against others without first bringing the issues up on one of the applicable boards on Wikipedia that deals with mediation. There are multiple reasons for this:


 * 1) First is that since Wikipedia is an encyclopedia that can be edited by anyone and making any statement concerning legal matters against someone for editing the page can be seen as you trying to assert WP:OWNERSHIP over the page. No one person owns a page on Wikipedia, which is very different from having a profile on Linkedin, a personal website, or a similar website where it is expected that you would have primary or sole control over what is or isn't placed on the page. In other words, telling someone that you will bring lawyers into the fray over edits can be seen as you essentially trying to control everything, which can also be seen as censorship since you are trying to discourage others from editing the page. Also since the page can be edited by anyone, that means that if you have received negative coverage for your works then that material can be included in the page. Wikipedia does not cover only the positive aspects of a person's career and doing this can be seen as WP:ADVERTISING- which is against Wikipedia's policies. This is one of the biggest things that separates it from places like Linkedin, as that website is created for the sole purpose of advertising oneself to others. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia and is not meant to be seen as something that would explicitly promote or further someone's career.


 * 1) Secondly, going immediately to a legal threat does not come across well. It makes it appear as if you are not open to conversations over the article and it can actually make things a lot worse. To be very honest (assuming you are Jackson and you or a representative e-mailed the user), this gives us a very poor first impression of yourself and it puts us on edge because it gives off the impression that you are not open to compromise. In other words, you could have gone to any board (biographies of living persons noticeboard, administrator's noticeboard, dispute resolution noticeboard, etc) and asked for help. You could also have e-mailed Wikipedia's corporate boards and asked for help with the article. Even if you think someone is being defamatory, you should try to communicate with one of Wikipedia's noticeboards or with Wikipedia's corporate boards first. Especially if you think that someone is being defamatory because it could very well be that because you have such a close conflict of interest that you are seeing something as defamatory when it really isn't and wasn't meant to be seen as such.


 * 1) Finally, Wikipedia has had bad experiences with people making legal threats against editors both on and off Wikipedia. In many instances the people who issued the legal threats ended up gaining a pretty negative reputation both on and off Wikipedia, which was pretty much the opposite of what they wanted to accomplish in the first place. In some of these cases the legal threats weren't really made by the person themselves but by a personal representative (a family member, a well meaning PA, a marketing person hired to create the page, and so on), yet the person who ended up with egg on their face was the person in question. This hasn't happened in every situation but it has happened on at least one occasion that someone (Yank Barry) made a legal threat against Wikipedia and it got covered by the media to the point where it was included in their article.

This may not have been you that made these remarks but since you have posted with the same name as the person in the article I'm giving you these warnings in case you are the person who made the legal threats, asked others to make the legal threats, or know who would have made them. I can't stress how bad of an idea it is to jump immediately make legal threats on Wikipedia. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)   05:26, 8 January 2015 (UTC)