User talk:Tastarte

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Happy editing! Kj cheetham (talk) 12:00, 18 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Managing a conflict of interest[edit]

Hello, Tastarte. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the page Cliff Jones (computer scientist), 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 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 Wikipedia:Conflict of interest#How to disclose a COI);
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 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 Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Kj cheetham (talk) 14:14, 18 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the remarks, Kj. I don't think I did anything that breaches conflict of interest, besides the most obvious (and most problematic?). I did read the biographical information guidelines but somehow didn't come across the CoI ones. I disclosed my relationship and added only very minor bits of additional text, and did a bit of cleaning up. It would be helpful to know what in particular was problematic so I can avoid it in future. If I should simply have told my colleague that I couldn't edit his page, then I shall remember that. If the problem is the 'promo link' you removed, I didn't add that.Tastarte (talk) 14:48, 18 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I just spotted the 'compensation' part. I wasn't paid and don't expect to be paid for doing this.

I'm not an expert in determining at what point editing an article of someone you work with becomes an COI, but just wanted to flag it up as a potential concern for awareness. It wasn't really a case of a specific issue. You might want to use Connected_contributor template on the article talk page to make it more obvious too. I would generally "strongly discourage" people to not edit articles about people they know well or work with, rather than say simply "don't". Hopefully that's slightly clearer! -Kj cheetham (talk) 15:39, 18 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]