Desireeannaross

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Desireeannaross. 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 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 Wikipedia:Spam#External link spamming);
• 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. ––FormalDude talk 01:36, 23 March 2022 (UTC)

Your username and other stuff

Hi Desireeannaross. I saw your question at the Wikipedia Teahouse and thought I'd post a note about it here. If you're indeed Desiree Ross, then you might want to take a look at WP:REALNAME. All Wikipedia editors are WP:VOLUNTEERs and there's really no way for any of us to know who you really are (see On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog for an interesting example of this) other than taking you at your word. That's fine in many cases, but online impersonation is a problem that Wikipedia, just like many websites, faces. So, if you're planning on continuing to use this account to make suggestions about or request changes to the Wikipedia article written about you, then you might want to get your identity verified by WP:VRT. This won't give you any special editing privileges or editorial control over what's written about you on Wikipedia, but it will make it clear to others that when you post something that it's really you (at least someone verified to be you) who's doing the posting. Wikipedia accounts aren't allowed to be shared among multiple people; so, the account should be solely for you personal use. Anyone wanting to make changes on your behalf (e.g. a PR rep, an agent) should create their own account and follow the guidance given in Wikipedia:Conflict of interest. If you have concerns about what's being written about you on Wikipedia, then there are ways for you to seek assistance for other editors. Most experienced editors will be happy to help you sort through any issues you may have, but things will need to be resolved in accordance with relevant Wikipedia policies and guidelines. As for the image of you that was being used, Wikipedia is limited, for the most part, to using images that are freely licensed and comply with its licensing requirements. You can, however, provide a more suitable high quality image as explained here. Perhaps the easiest way for you to do this would simply have someone you know take a current photo of you and then ask that person to upload the photo to Wikimedia Commons. Ask them to take a look at c:Commons:Licensing and c:Commons:Reusing content outside Wikimedia first, but things should be fine as long as it's not a previously taken photo that is already being used somewhere online or in print. After the photo has been uploaded, you can simply post an edit request at Talk:Desiree Ross and ask someone to add it to the article if you're not sure how to do so yourself. -- Marchjuly (talk) 03:23, 23 March 2022 (UTC)

Image in infobox for Desiree Ross

Hi, I agree that the image on this article doesn't look as good as it should be. You can upload a free image and request someone edit it in for you, per the comment above.

You can go here and click "Upload your own or a freely licensed file" to upload a new image to Wikimedia Commons. However, images on Wikimedia Commons must be free as in free content. This means anyone can use it as long as they follow certain conditions (these vary with the license). (Side note: I personally dedicate them to the public domain so I don't have to send violation letters, but that's just what I do.)

Then, you can go to the talk page and make an edit request (I highly recommend you do this, because you have a conflict of interest) at the bottom (replacing the text (your edit request here...) with what you want changed):

== Edit request on {{subst:date}}==
{{edit request}}
(your edit request here...) ~~~~

Then someone will come and review it. Happy editing! I.hate.spam.mail.here (talk | contributions) 06:15, 29 March 2022 (UTC)

And also, nobody owns content on Wikipedia, so unfortunately, the subject of an article doesn't get more power over the content in it. I.hate.spam.mail.here (talk | contributions) 06:16, 29 March 2022 (UTC)