Colonelhabibi
Managing a conflict of interest edit
Hello, Colonelhabibi. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Creative Energy, 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;
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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. KH-1 (talk) 02:52, 12 April 2022 (UTC)
- Hi KH-1,
- Thanks for the message and apologies for the editing. I am in fact linked to Creative Energy. I am not a paid editor, but I am attempting to ensure the information on this page is accurate, and not misinforming the public of our projects. Most of the previous entries on this page contained links to old articles or contained summaries of our work that was incorrect/misleading/out-of-date. But I do agree some of my writing comes off as biased as I am pulling a lot of content from our promotional resources.
- What options do we as an organization have to make edits to this page without breaking the policies and rules of Wikipedia? Any tips are appreciated. I had tried to mix references between our own website and third party sources that discuss the company and it's details elsewhere. Colonelhabibi (talk) 15:07, 12 April 2022 (UTC)
- @Colonelhabibi: Please clarify your relationship with Creative Energy. If you are employed by this company, then that is enough for you to be considered a paid editor and therefore require the appropriate disclosure. You do not have to be paid specifically to edit Wikipedia or be directed to edit Wikipedia for this policy to apply.
- We are not interested in what a company wishes to say about itself or how it wants to be portrayed. We care only about what has been written about the company in reliable sources that are independent of the company itself. Your company's website is a primary source; it can be used to validate basic facts and figures, but little else.
- Please limit your involvement with this article to making edit requests on the article's talk page, Talk:Creative Energy. --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 16:20, 12 April 2022 (UTC)