User talk:Trekyg

February 2023
Welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your username, "Scoot Education", may not meet Wikipedia's username policy because Scoot Education is the name of a company. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. As an alternative, you may ask for a change of username by completing the form at Special:GlobalRenameRequest, or you may simply create a new account for editing. Thank you. Tacyarg (talk) 23:56, 16 February 2023 (UTC)


 * Hi Tacyarg! I wrote Scoot Education to make it evident that the email associated with this profile is under the company Scoot Education. My intention is to create a Wikipedia for our program "TeachStart" - which is similar to "Teach for America" (has a wiki) once we gain more public exposure. Wiki recommended that we have some history of making appropriate edits in the meantime. I can go ahead and change my username to my own name if needed. Scoot Education (talk) 00:15, 17 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Hi, thanks for your reply. Paid editing / editing with a conflict of interest is possible, but discouraged. You will need to read the conflict of interest guidance and make a declaration of being a paid editor, as well as changing your username. I'll paste the conflict of interest template below. Tacyarg (talk) 00:19, 17 February 2023 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, Scoot Education. 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, colleagues, company, organization, clients, or competitors;
 * propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the request edit template);
 * disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see Conflict of interest);
 * avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see Spam);
 * do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to 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 Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Tacyarg (talk) 00:20, 17 February 2023 (UTC)


 * I had believed that I would still be able to create a page for the company I'm working for as long we remain neutral and provide info cited from reputable news sources or papers. We would not write a Wiki like an opinion piece or an ad.
 * When were the cases that paid editing / editing with a conflict of interest was possible? Scoot Education (talk) 00:28, 17 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Hi, did you have a look at the guidance? You'll see that on the one hand "COI editing is strongly discouraged on Wikipedia" and on the other "Editors with a COI, including paid editors, are expected to disclose it whenever they seek to change an affected article's content". This is why I say possible but discouraged. It is very difficult for editors who work for the company they are writing about to write neutrally. I guess I would wonder why you wanted to create an article if promotion is not ultimately the goal. You might find it useful to look at the Teahouse where conflicts of interest are discussed frequently. Tacyarg (talk) 00:40, 17 February 2023 (UTC)
 * The topic came up because a similar company has a Wikipedia page. But it sounds like we will have to wait until there's enough news coverage for an unrelated editor to write the page. Scoot Education (talk) 00:57, 17 February 2023 (UTC)