User talk:Riele
Welcome!
[edit]Hello, Karissa at EPEntertainment, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.
I noticed 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.
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.)
Here are some pages that you might find helpful:
- The plain and simple conflict of interest guide
- The five pillars of Wikipedia
- Contributing to Wikipedia
- Tutorial
- How to edit a page and How to develop articles
- How to create your first article (using the Article Wizard if you wish)
- Simplified Manual of Style
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! Drm310 (talk) 05:20, 11 June 2015 (UTC)
Advice
[edit]I appreciate the feedback, I want to do this correctly, however, I was advised within the help forum to change my username to what it is now, to identify myself as an individual working for the organization, understandably, it's confusing. My goal was to be factual, accurate and transparent. There are quite a few articles with guidelines and it can be tedious and overwhelming to read each and every one. I have no objection to changing my username, I'm just not quite sure why I was advised to use the one I have. Please let me know about any other suggestions you may have, I'm also in the process of creating an article for EP Entertainment and would like to avoid any issue. I have requested a name change in the meanwhile.
- Hello there,
- I don't see any posts to a help forum in your edit history. Perhaps you were using a different account? Anyway, I'm not sure why you were advised to change your username - "Karissa at EPEntertainment" is considered acceptable because you identified yourself as an individual within an organization. Oh well, no matter... you might as well just continue on with this one.
- My recommendation is that you create future articles by going to Wikipedia:Drafts and using one of the boxes in the "Creating and editing drafts" section to start a new draft article. The benefit of using the draft space is that someone will review your submission before it gets posted to the mainspace. That way if there are any concerns, you'll get some feedback and the opportunity to make changes before the article is made live.
- If you haven't read the plain and simple conflict of interest guide yet, I would suggest that you do so. That has a lot of helpful advice on how to write articles that are well-sourced and written in good faith.
- One last thing. When posting to talk pages like this one, or any page with an open discussion (but never when editing articles), please place your comments at the bottom. As well, please be sure to sign your posts. There are two ways to do this. Either:
- Add four tildes ( ~~~~ ) at the end of your comment; or
- With the cursor positioned at the end of your comment, click on the signature button (
or 
) located above the edit window.
- This will automatically insert a signature with your username or IP address and the time you posted the comment. This information is necessary to allow other editors to easily see who wrote what and when.
- Good luck to you. --Drm310 (talk) 15:27, 11 June 2015 (UTC)
