User talk:David Leask

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Conflict of interest editing

Hello, David Leask. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places, or things you have written about in the article The Herald (Glasgow), you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic, and it is important when editing Wikipedia articles that such connections be completely transparent. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. In particular, we ask that you please:

• avoid editing or creating articles related to you and your family, friends, school, company, club, or organization, as well as any competing companies' projects or products;
• instead, you are encouraged to propose changes on the Talk pages of affected article(s) (see the {{request edit}} template);
• when discussing affected articles, disclose your COI (see WP:DISCLOSE);
• avoid linking to the Wikipedia article or to the website of your organization in other articles (see WP:SPAM);
• exercise great caution so that you do not violate 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).

Please take a few moments to read and review Wikipedia's policies regarding conflicts of interest, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, sourcing and autobiographies. Thank you. Melcous (talk) 11:02, 2 March 2017 (UTC)

Reply

Hi David and thanks for your message on my talk page and thanks for being clear about your conflict - that is absolutely the best way to go about things. As it says above, what is recommended is that you make suggestions for how to improve the article on its talk page rather than editing the article directly. So if there are inaccuracies on your page, you can explain them there, and then an editor without a conflict can make the changes if they agree (I'm happy to have a look at any suggestions you make). I removed the list of columnists and correspondents because it is not really encyclopaedic content and because it was sourced to the paper's own website. If there are particular columnists or correspondents who are notable and have been subjects of coverage in reliable, secondary sources they might be worth including on a case by case basis, but adding a long list verges on promotional editing which is not allowed. I hope that helps, feel free to ask if you have more questions. Cheers, Melcous (talk) 12:22, 2 March 2017 (UTC)

Hi David, you're welcome and thanks for taking things on board! I was able to easily find a reference about the former building and so have added that as well as links to both the architect and the Lighthouse, and added "former" to the caption on the picture. I'm not an expert in adding images to wikipedia sorry, but if you want to add a photo of the current building the key thing is that it has to be an image for which there are no copyright issues - see here. Even if it is your own photo, you have to upload it under a licence to give permission for it to be used - see here. There is a guide on how to upload a photo here. I hope that is useful, as that's about all I know on images! If you need further help on that, you could try asking at the helpdesk.

One other thing, when you leave a message on a talk page, please "sign" your post by adding four tildes (~ this symbol) at the end, which will automatically include the time and date and a link to your talk page to reply. Thanks, Melcous (talk) 13:47, 2 March 2017 (UTC)