Brian Cameron 01

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Brian Cameron 01. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the page Megagame, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:

• avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization or competitors;
• propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the {{request edit}} template);
• disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see Wikipedia:Conflict of interest#How to disclose a COI);
• avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see WP:Spam);
• do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Lord Belbury (talk) 15:48, 15 March 2020 (UTC)

Handling a conflict of interest

Thanks for your response. Wikipedia:Plain_and_simple_conflict_of_interest_guide#Advice should cover the main points. #3, #4, #7, #8 and #11 are the relevant ones here, which amounts to:

• Declare your conflict of interest. Put a note on your user page (User:Brian_Cameron_01) making clear your connection to Megagame Makers.
• Do not make direct edits to live articles. Suggest additions on the talk page to get feedback from other editors, who will work on getting it to a point where it can be added to the article.
• Sources, sources, sources. Wikipedia really needs secondary sources. There's some scope for using primary sources to confirm basic facts about an organisation (see WP:ABOUTSELF), but these cannot be "unduly self-serving nor an exceptional claim". If you want to say that Megagame Makers was "the main (and indeed virtually the only) body running megagames" for twenty years, that's an impressive claim and needs a stronger source than your own website. A quick Google search suggests that you did get some press coverage, so you should focus on what they've said about you.
• Neutralize your conflict of interest. Adding a paragraph about your Facebook page and how welcoming it is isn't the kind of tone Wikipedia should take. The policy recommends that you "Write so that your biggest competitor would think it was fair and balanced" as a rule of thumb.
• Don't use other articles as excuses. I see your point about there being similar stuff in the Personalities section: that doesn't mean that it's been okayed by Wikipedia, it just means that nobody's noticed it being a problem! (I've now removed the content that's only sourced to its own website.) --Lord Belbury (talk) 12:59, 16 March 2020 (UTC)