User talk:Petehaigh

Managing a conflict of interest[edit]

Hello, Petehaigh. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places, or things you have written about in the article Proof-editing, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic, and it is important when editing Wikipedia articles that such connections be completely transparent. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. In particular, we ask that you please:

avoid editing or creating articles related to you and your family, friends, school, company, club, or organization, as well as any competing companies' projects or products;
instead, you are encouraged to propose changes on the Talk pages of affected article(s) (see the {{request edit}} template);
when discussing affected articles, disclose your COI (see WP:DISCLOSE);
avoid linking to the Wikipedia article or to the website of your organization in other articles (see WP:SPAM);
exercise great caution so that you do not violate Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID).

Please take a few moments to read and review Wikipedia's policies regarding conflicts of interest, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, sourcing and autobiographies. Thank you. 331dot (talk) 12:50, 10 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your review. My apologies for not doing the necessary declarations. I have used content that I have already published in blogs on my website to form this article, hence the citations to technicaleditorial. A part of it is also taken from my wife's website, kateproof. There is little information on this topic available online, I could only find a brief mention on a page of the SfEP (society for editors and proofreaders). It is a departure from the norm in the industry - there is little authoritative information about it available - but increasingly my proofreading and editing colleagues are using the term, so I felt a page was worthwhile.

How do I go about making a suitable declaration?

Many thanks,

Pete Petehaigh (talk) 14:14, 10 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. I assume you are referring to a COI and/or paid editing declaration. You can post a statement on either this page or your user page(click your username or the red "User page" tab at the top of this page) describing what exactly the COI is (or if you are a paid editor). Also, posting it on the article talk pages of any articles you edit that are relevant to your COI is a good idea as well. 331dot (talk) 14:18, 10 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I would further add that all articles on Wikipedia must be sustained with independent reliable sources that indicate how the subject is notable. Using one's own blog postings (aside from the COI) is not an independent reliable source. If you cite independent sources in your blog, those are what should be posted here. 331dot (talk) 14:21, 10 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]