User talk:Cattb

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Cattb. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page University of York Library, 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 Wikipedia:Spam#External link spamming);
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. Chris Troutman (talk) 02:20, 5 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

because folks like you don't read boilerplate templates

Hi. You created a bunch of red links to an article that has been deleted. It seems you work at that library. That sort of editing isn't allowed, especially if you haven't followed the rules listed at WP:COI. If particular subjects were all that important, our longterm volunteer editors would have written it. the last thing we need are amateurs writing about their workplace. Chris Troutman (talk) 02:23, 5 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Chris troutman Hi, apologies for this. I have now disclosed the COI on my user page and will no longer make edits to articles relating to my workplace. Cattb (talk) 09:19, 7 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks so much. Of course, Wikipedia is a big place and there are other articles and WikiProjects with which to be involved. Please ask if you'd like recommendations on where you could pitch in on this encyclopedia. Chris Troutman (talk) 03:06, 10 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]