User talk:Ddstickney

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Ddstickney. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page ARC Document Solutions, 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. – Broccoli & Coffee ^{(Oh hai)} 02:45, 22 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

RESPONSE:

Hello and thank you for the information. I understand the intent of the COI guidelines, but would like to explore whether the information may be updated. I am the originator of the post which was created several years ago. There were no objections at the time when I created it. I work for the company and the intent of the post is to supply information about the company that is used by several public company information sources that rely on Wikipedia links to describe their subjects. The most prominent example is on Google Finance found at https://www.google.com/finance/quote/ARC:NYSE. The most recent edits was an update of objective and sourced information that was no longer correct (services offered, financial information). If I am no longer permitted to edit this post, it should be taken down as it is no longer accurate but still being used by third parties. That being said, are their exceptions I can request to maintain the post?

Any input is appreciated.

Ddstickney (talk) 15:57, 22 September 2021 (UTC)David Stickney[reply]