User talk:Juliannakc

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

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited was Lancaster Inferno (UWS)‎, 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.

To reduce the chances of your contributions being undone, you might like to draft your revised article before submission, and then ask me or another editor to proofread it. See our help page on userspace drafts for more details. If the page you created has already been deleted from Wikipedia, but you want to save the content from it to use for that draft, don't hesitate to ask anyone from this list and they will copy it to your user page.

One rule we do have in connection with conflicts of interest is that accounts used by more than one person will unfortunately be blocked from editing. Wikipedia generally does not allow editors to have usernames which imply that the account belongs to a company or corporation. If you have a username like this, you should request a change of username or create a new account. (A name that identifies the user as an individual within a given organization may be OK.)

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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! -- Marchjuly (talk) 05:53, 30 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hi again Juliannakc. Based upon some of the things you've posted at Commons, it sounds like you have at least an WP:APPARENTCOI with respect to Lancaster Inferno (UWS)‎. Wikipedia doesn't expressly forbid conflict-of interest editing, but it does highly discourage it and expects those with such a conflict to edit according to certain guidelines. The above template contains some links to relevant pages related to this type of thing, but you might also want to take a look at Wikipedia:Plain and simple conflict of interest guide and Wikipedia:Ownership of content. If you've got any questions about this please feel free to ask them below or at Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard. If you have any general questions about Wikipedia editing, feel free to ask for help at the Wikipedia Teahouse. -- Marchjuly (talk) 05:59, 30 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Based upon what you posted at c:User talk:Jeff G.#Copyright of images, it seems pretty clear that you do have a conflict of interest with respect to anything written about the team on Wikipedia. It’s also likely that you, as a co-owner of the team, might even be considered to have a financial conflict of interest as well. This makes it even more important that you follow relevant Wikipedia policies and guidelines, particularly Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure as they apply because there’s very little wiggle room for you to maneuver here. You should also refrain from directly editing the article, except as explained in WP:COIADVICE and follow the advice given in WP:PSCOI#Steps for engagement instead. The article is written about the team, not for the team, and neither the team nor any one connected to it has any final editorial control over the content of the article; in others words, it’s not the property of the team in any way. Article content needs to be in accordance with relevant Wikipedia policies and guidelines, and anything which is deemed not to be can be removed.

I’m posting this not to try and scare you off, only just to let you know so as to help you avoid problems down the road. You seem to be a fairly new editor so nobody is going to fault you for not knowing about any of this up until now, but the best way for you to help improve the article and avoid any potential problems is going to be to try and adhere to the COI editing guidelines as closely as possible. Just for reference, there are quite a lot of editors who work on improving soccer-related articles and many of them are members of Wikipedia:WikiProject Football, aka FOOTY (don’t let the name confuse you; Wikipedia refers to “soccer” as “football” in many cases). If you post a message on the WikiProject’s talk page, I’m pretty sure you’ll find someone willing to help out with the article.

The most important thing you can do now is to look for significant coverage about the team found in reliable sources (independent of the team) and let the members of FOOTY know what they are. They will assess the source and figure out if and how to best incorporate the information contained therein into the article in a way that complies with relevant policies and guidelines. Best of luck. — Marchjuly (talk) 08:35, 30 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you to Marchjuly and everyone else who has been helping me navigate changes to Wikipedia. My goal with making the changes was just to update the team history, colors, and logo, as well as adding/editing information about current and former players and coaches. It had not been changed since 2016, so I felt it important to update it, as there were quite a few changes since then. There is no compensation made to me, nor will there be, for updating the information. I will read through all of the guidelines for conflict of interest and make sure there are none. Hopefully, just updating a page with correct information is not a conflict of interest and is allowed. Thank you again -- I really appreciate the helpful attitude! Juliannakc (talk) 23:46, 4 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]