AngelaHamilton

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August 2012

Hello, AngelaHamilton. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article General Teaching Council for Scotland, you may have a conflict of interest or close connection to the subject.

All editors are required to comply with Wikipedia's neutral point of view content policy. People who are very close to a subject often have a distorted view of it, which may cause them to inadvertently edit in ways that make the article either too flattering or too disparaging. People with a close connection to a subject are not absolutely prohibited from editing about that subject, but they need to be especially careful about ensuring their edits are verified by reliable sources and writing with as little bias as possible.

If you are very close to a subject, here are some ways you can reduce the risk of problems:

• Avoid or exercise great caution when editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with.
• Be cautious about deletion discussions. Everyone is welcome to provide information about independent sources in deletion discussions, but avoid advocating for deletion of articles about your competitors.
• Avoid linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam).
• Exercise great caution so that you do not accidentally breach Wikipedia's content policies.

Please familiarize yourself with relevant content policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, verifiability of information, and autobiographies.

For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Thank you. Theroadislong (talk) 14:35, 22 August 2012 (UTC)

Hi there, thanks for getting back to me. I'm aware of the issue with the conflict of interest which is why I posted for help under the TeaHouse. I also tried to contact editors who had edited the article previously but no-one got back to me. I'll read the guidelines you have suggested. Is there any way of submitting articles like this to others before publishing? AngelaHamilton (talk) 14:47, 22 August 2012 (UTC)

Angela has taken advice to avoid being accused of COI editing and I think it is reasonable to make corrections as long as the interest is declared. My advice was and is to start a new thread on the article talk page to explain the situation.--Charles (talk) 17:26, 22 August 2012 (UTC)

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