User talk:Ukulelegal

Identity
Hello, Ukulelegal. If you are Victoria Jackson, we will need to confirm your identity so that we know you are not an impersonator. Please send an e-mail to , and your account will be unblocked after our volunteers confirm your identity. Thank you. Alex Shih (talk) 17:18, 5 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Please note that if you do confirm your identity, then if you can identify simple, uncontroversial facts that are inaccurate like your father being a gym coach vs your father being a gymnastics coach (which imply two very different careers), you can post the correct information on the talk page of the article and another editor will generally be happy to fix it for you. Additionally, for any facts which can't be seen as self-serving, you can publish them in a way in which we can verify that it's really you (such as on your twitter account), and we can use those as sources for them. We strive to be as accurate as possible, and the participation of people who have articles is very welcome, even if we must impose some limits on their editing in order to maintain that accuracy. ᛗᛁᛟᛚᚾᛁᚱPants   Tell me all about it.  22:21, 5 January 2018 (UTC)

Identity confirmed
Thank you for submitting the e-mail. Your identity has been confirmed, so the account has been unblocked. Please use request edit to edit pages where you have conflict of interest whenever possible, thank you. Alex Shih (talk) 20:39, 6 January 2018 (UTC)

Conflict of interest in Wikipedia
Hi Ukulelegal. Thanks for disclosing that you have edited the article about yourself.

I'm giving you notice of our Conflict of Interest guideline and Terms of Use, and will have some comments and requests for you below.

Hello, Ukulelegal. 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 COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. Editing for the purpose of advertising or promotion is not permitted. 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 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 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.

Comments and requests
Wikipedia is a widely-used reference work and managing conflict of interest is essential for ensuring the integrity of Wikipedia and retaining the public's trust in it. As in academia, COI is managed here in two steps - disclosure and a form of peer review.

Disclosure is the most important, and first, step, which you have done.

With regard to the "peer review" step, what we ask editors to do who have a COI and want to work on articles where their COI is relevant, is:
 * a) if you want to create an article relevant to a COI you have, create the article as a draft through the WP:AFC process, disclose your COI on the Talk page with the Template:Connected contributor (paid) tag, and then submit the draft article for review (the AfC process sets up a nice big button for you to click when it is ready) so it can be reviewed before it publishes; and
 * b) And if you want to change content in any existing article on a topic where you have a COI, we ask you to
 * (i) disclose at the Talk page of the article with the Template:Connected contributor tag, putting it at the bottom of the beige box at the top of the page (I have done this for you); and
 * (ii) propose content on the Talk page for others to review and implement before it goes live, instead of doing it directly yourself. Just open a new section, put the proposed content there, and just below the header (at the top of the editing window) please the  tag to flag it for other editors to review.  In general it should be relatively short so that it is not too much review at once.

By following those "peer review" processes, editors with a COI can contribute where they have a COI, and the integrity of WP can be protected. We get some great contributions that way, when conflicted editors take the time to understand what kinds of proposals are OK under the content policies.

But understanding the mission, and the policies and guidelines through which we realize the mission, is very important! There are a whole slew of policies and guidelines that govern content and behavior here in Wikipedia. Please see User:Jytdog/How for an overview of what Wikipedia is and is not (we are not a directory or a place to promote anything, or yourself; we are not a personal blog), and for an overview of the content and behavior policies and guidelines. Learning and following these is very important, and takes time. Please be aware that you have created a Wikipedia account, and this makes you a Wikipedian - you are obligated to pursue Wikipedia's mission first and foremost when you work here, and you are obligated to edit according to the policies and guidelines.

I hope that makes sense to you.

I want to add here that per the WP:COI guideline, if you want to directly update simple, uncontroversial facts (for example, correcting the facts about where the company has offices) you can do that directly in the article, without making an edit request on the Talk page. Just be sure to always cite a reliable source for the information you change, and make sure it is simple, factual, uncontroversial content. If you are not sure if something is uncontroversial, please ask at the Talk page.

Will you please agree to learn and follow the content and behavioral policies and guidelines, and to follow the peer review processes going forward when you want to work on the article about yourself, or any article where your COI is relevant? Do let me know, and if anything above doesn't make sense I would be happy to discuss. Best regards Jytdog (talk) 23:02, 6 January 2018 (UTC)


 * Would you please reply here? Thanks. Jytdog (talk) 01:31, 7 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Please reply here. Jytdog (talk) 02:14, 7 January 2018 (UTC)

A couple of important notices
Some topics are controversial in Wikipedia as well as in the real world, and have lead to "cases" at our "supreme court". As a result, there are what we call "discretionary sanctions" on these topics, which means that the policies and guidelines of Wikipedia are strictly enforced, and administrative action can happen swiftly if people will not engage the policies and guidelines.

Two relevant ones for you concern articles about living people, and contemporary politics. Please see the notices below.

-- Jytdog (talk) 23:10, 6 January 2018 (UTC)

Personal information
Ms. Jackson,

Because pretty much everything on this website is visible to the public, please don't include non-public information in your edits or edit summaries. Thank you. ​—DoRD (talk)​ 02:18, 7 January 2018 (UTC)

January 2018
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