User talk:Tomtommaps

Here's wishing you a welcome to Wikipedia, Tomtommaps. Thank you for your contributions. Here are some useful links, which have information to help editors get the most out of Wikipedia:

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Again, welcome! Jytdog (talk) 19:23, 27 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Issue with your username - no corporate accounts here[edit]

Welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your username, "Tomtommaps", may not comply with our username policy. Please note that you may not use a username that represents the name of a company, group, organization, product, or website. Examples of usernames that are not allowed include "XYZ Company", "MyWidgetsUSA.com", and "Foobar Museum of Art". However, you are invited to use a username that contains such a name if it identifies you personally, such as "Jack Smith at XYZ Company", "Mark at WidgetsUSA", or "FoobarFan87".

Please also note that Wikipedia does not allow accounts to be shared by multiple people, and that you may not advocate for or promote any company, group, organization, product, or website, regardless of your username. Moreover, I recommend that you read our conflict of interest guideline. If you are a single individual and are willing to contribute to Wikipedia in an unbiased manner, please create a new account or request a change of username, by completing this form, that complies with our username policy. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. Thank you. Jytdog (talk) 19:24, 27 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Conflict of interest in Wikipedia[edit]

Hi Tomtommaps. I work on conflict of interest issues here in Wikipedia. Your username implies that you are in corporate communications for Tomtom Maps. I'm giving you notice of our Conflict of Interest guideline and Terms of Use, and will have some comments and requests for you below.

Hello, Tomtommaps. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. In particular, please:

avoid editing or creating articles related to you and your circle, your organization, its competitors, projects or products;
instead propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (see the {{request edit}} template);
when discussing affected articles, disclose your COI (see WP:DISCLOSE);
avoid linking to the Wikipedia article or 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 familiarize yourself with relevant policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, sourcing and autobiographies. Thank you.

Comments and requests[edit]

Wikipedia is a widely-used reference work and managing conflict of interest is essential for ensuring the integrity of Wikipedia and retaining the public's trust in it. As in academia, COI is managed here in two steps - disclosure and a form of peer review. Please note that there is no bar to being part of the Wikipedia community if you want to be involved in articles where you have a conflict of interest; there are just some things we ask you to do (and if you are paid, some things you need to do).

If you want to become part of the editing community, please take care of your username issue by changing the account name (something like "Johntomtom" would be fine if you want to retain the company name in the account name; it just needs to be clear that the account is used by a single human), and then reply here, and we can talk about how COI is managed in Wikipedia. Best regards Jytdog (talk) 19:27, 27 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Jytdog. I do in fact work for TomTom Maps. I noticed that there is currently no company information about us where as our competitors, Google Maps, Here Maps etc all have a page. Did Google Maps for instance, create their own page or did some 3rd party create it for them? I'm only planning on placing factual information similar to any other company wiki site on our page. No advertising or anything of that sort. Let me know what you recommend. -- Tomtommaps (talk) 20:12, 27 April 2016 (UTC)Thanks, Anika[reply]

Thanks for writing back! You can actually see the history of every page in Wikipedia - there is a tab called "View History" at the upper rightish side of each page. this was the edit that created the article back in Feb 2005. One line. By an IP address in the UK. Over on the left margin of each page, there is a link to "page information" and you can see that 451 have watchlisted that article. Way down at the bottom of the Page Information page, is a link to "Revision History Statistics" and you can see there have been 4542 edits, and that the editor with the most edits is {{noping|User:TexasAndroid]] who has been around since May 2005 and edits on a lot of different topics (you can see any user's contributions (contribs) by clicking the link in the left margin for "User Contributions") I don't want to spend more time than that looking into it.

If Tom Tom wants its own article, you can draft one and submit it through the "Articles for Creation" process. I can provide you some instructions on how to to do that if you want, but the first thing you should do is change your username. There are links for doing that in the Username section above. Jytdog (talk) 06:00, 28 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]