User talk:Adam Etheridge
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Hello, Adam Etheridge, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.
I noticed that the only article you have edited is Quorn_F.C., which appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article. Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.
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- Hello Geoff
- I apologise if I have broken any rules, and I hope that you have found that my edits are merely to improve the page for visitors. Anything I have added or amended is just a statement of fact, no opinions.
- The club has a rich history and hopefully I've been able to add context to that and added to the article in the correct manner. Such as, my most recent edit was to update the list of Managers to reflect that the previous Manager has left. We're hoping to appoint a replacement this evening.
- I've not edited any other pages as I couldn't possibly add anything to the conversation on any other subject.
- I hope this is all okay?
- Kind regards
- Adam Adam Etheridge (talk) 10:47, 14 May 2024 (UTC)
- @Adam Etheridge: Adam, the point I was making is that editing on behalf of the organization is a conflict of interest which must be disclosed as paid editing per the Wikipedia Terms of Use. If you are a part of the organization, an officer, an employee or an agent, you must disclose when editing the article about the club per Wikipedia:Conflict of interest. How to do that, on your user page and on the Talk page of the Quorn F.C. article, are found in this section of the COI article. Please do that as soon as you can. Otherwise, you risk your edits being reverted, and your account being blocked for failing to disclose. Geoff | Who, me? 12:45, 14 May 2024 (UTC)
- Hello Geoff, is there any chance of that article in English?
- Not a word of that makes any sense to me. What I could glean from that though, is that I'm not paid to edit Wikipedia on behalf of the football club... that is not part of my remit.
- I was under the impression that I had now declared my alleged conflict of interest. If this is not the case, or is not acceptable, then please go ahead and remove all of my edits.
- However, in doing so, you will be weakening an article by filling it with out of date information. Also, could we have the badge changed by someone without an alleged conflict of interest please?
- Kind regards
- Adam Adam Etheridge (talk) 21:30, 14 May 2024 (UTC)
- @Adam Etheridge: I gather from your response that you work for the Quorn F.C. As plain as I can make it, that means you have a conflict of interest and are a paid editor for Wikipedia's purposes when you edit the article about your employer, whether editing on behalf of the club is part of your remit or not. You have not clearly disclosed your conflict of interest as a paid editor. Read the article on paid editing disclosure: Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure and the article on conflicts of interest, Wikipedia:Conflict of interest. If using the disclosure templates found in the article section, Wikipedia:Conflict of interest#Paid editors, is too hard to follow, make a statement on your user page, User:Adam Etheridge, that you work for Quorn F.C. and you are editing the article. As an alternative, I will create the disclosures for you, with your permission. Then, propose suggested edits on the Quorn F.C. Talk page, Talk:Quorn F.C., rather than editing the article directly. You can point the volunteers to s source of a free image of the club's current logo and suggest that it be changed in the article. Geoff | Who, me? 23:16, 14 May 2024 (UTC)
- Hello Geoff
- Thank you, I believe that I have now followed these steps. The assistance is appreciated.
- Now that I have declared my alleged conflict of interest, am I okay to edit our Manager list tomorrow when we announce the new one?
- Kind regards
- Adam Adam Etheridge (talk) 07:58, 15 May 2024 (UTC)
- @Adam Etheridge: Yes, the disclosure on your user account page works. I've added the connected contributor tag to the article Talk page for you. As far as further changes to the article, you should propose edits to the Talk page, rather than editing the article directly. Provide Wikipedia:Reliable sources for any changes you propose. Follow the link to the article describing those sources. In short, you need references to articles published in third party, independent publications which have a reputation for accuracy and fact-checking. Think Manchester Guardian, for example. Geoff | Who, me? 13:15, 15 May 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks Geoff... but do you appreciate how little media coverage there is of eighth tier non-league football in a small Leicestershire village? Citing such sources may prove difficult at best. If anyone in the media wants information about the club, I'm the source they would turn to. Adam Etheridge (talk) 14:48, 15 May 2024 (UTC)
- @Adam Etheridge: Yes, the disclosure on your user account page works. I've added the connected contributor tag to the article Talk page for you. As far as further changes to the article, you should propose edits to the Talk page, rather than editing the article directly. Provide Wikipedia:Reliable sources for any changes you propose. Follow the link to the article describing those sources. In short, you need references to articles published in third party, independent publications which have a reputation for accuracy and fact-checking. Think Manchester Guardian, for example. Geoff | Who, me? 13:15, 15 May 2024 (UTC)
- @Adam Etheridge: I gather from your response that you work for the Quorn F.C. As plain as I can make it, that means you have a conflict of interest and are a paid editor for Wikipedia's purposes when you edit the article about your employer, whether editing on behalf of the club is part of your remit or not. You have not clearly disclosed your conflict of interest as a paid editor. Read the article on paid editing disclosure: Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure and the article on conflicts of interest, Wikipedia:Conflict of interest. If using the disclosure templates found in the article section, Wikipedia:Conflict of interest#Paid editors, is too hard to follow, make a statement on your user page, User:Adam Etheridge, that you work for Quorn F.C. and you are editing the article. As an alternative, I will create the disclosures for you, with your permission. Then, propose suggested edits on the Quorn F.C. Talk page, Talk:Quorn F.C., rather than editing the article directly. You can point the volunteers to s source of a free image of the club's current logo and suggest that it be changed in the article. Geoff | Who, me? 23:16, 14 May 2024 (UTC)
- @Adam Etheridge: Adam, the point I was making is that editing on behalf of the organization is a conflict of interest which must be disclosed as paid editing per the Wikipedia Terms of Use. If you are a part of the organization, an officer, an employee or an agent, you must disclose when editing the article about the club per Wikipedia:Conflict of interest. How to do that, on your user page and on the Talk page of the Quorn F.C. article, are found in this section of the COI article. Please do that as soon as you can. Otherwise, you risk your edits being reverted, and your account being blocked for failing to disclose. Geoff | Who, me? 12:45, 14 May 2024 (UTC)