User talk:CCHeritage

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Hello, CCHeritage, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.

I notice that one of the first articles you edited 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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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{help me}} before the question. Again, welcome! Walter Görlitz (talk) 22:33, 24 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Walter. Hopefully I am replying correctly.

It must be my username that seems to have caused this but just for clarification it is CCHeritage which is my main user name I almost always use on the Internet. It actually represents my web site if it was going to represent anything and not of the subject of those articles or a corporation, business or organization.

But currently I am the webmaster for the CHP's national web site and I am aware of the conflict of interest, but I am not writing anything on those pages and have no plans to do so, just correcting some very apparent errors on those pages (urls/colours/logos etc.). Others in the party seem to be keeping the written side up to date. I don't like seeing errors on Wikipedia since I use it myself for info all the time and decided to sign up. I do not mind if you or another editor want to look at these small corrections/changes before I submit them.

I just noticed another error that needs to be corrected on both pages and was wondering the correct way of going about it.

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When it comes to colours on Wikipedia, can one put in the official Pantone colour of the organization/club etc. or does a colour name (ex. yellow) and link to that colour have to be used, even though it is incorrect? I have seen many different ways of it being done on Wikipedia but want to know the correct way. Thank you.

CCHeritage (talk) 02:01, 25 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. Correcting obvious errors, making minor updates, and other non-controversial changes (like removing vandalism) are fine, regardless of any conflict of interest. For anything more substantial, you can use the talk page of the article to propose a change and then use {{Request edit}} to have a neutral editor review the change. I hope this helps with your first question. Regarding your second, I'm not well versed in color schemes, so I'll leave the help me template up. Danger ^{High voltage!} 03:14, 25 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Good question, CCH! Made me do a little hunting. All I came up with was the "How To" at Help:Color, so evidently contributors have free rein when it comes to the input of correct and official colors in articles. The closer to correct and official, the better. – PAINE ELLSWORTH ^CLIMAX! 06:31, 25 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you Danger and Paine Ellsworth for the help and information. CCHeritage (talk) 22:11, 25 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

You're welcome! – PAINE ELLSWORTH ^CLIMAX! 23:14, 25 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]