Gpalozzi
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Possible COI
editHi and welcome to Wikipedia.
But I notice your contributions to date have all been connected to the Information Control Company article, and by the tone of one of them you appear to have a connection to the company. If so please read wp:COI before making any further edits related to that page.
You are in no way prohibited from such edits, but it is required that you disclose the connection.
If you are an employee, I know it can be hard to convince your bosses that Wikipedia will not support corporate rebranding exercises such as this, but that is our policy. Once the new name appears in recent reliable sources, then our article name should change in response to this. Andrewa (talk) 00:08, 11 September 2019 (UTC)
Hi Andrew, I appreciate the guidance.You are correct in that fact that I have a conflict of interest with the Information Control Company article. I lead our marketing team and was responsible for the recent rebranding of the organization. Given that you do not want people with a conflict of interest to edit the document about a company's history and organizational changes, how do you expect to get the information about the comnpany edited by someone oustide of the company who is not privy to these changes? Here are two links below from Yahoo Finance and to Columbus Business First that provide insights on the recent changes. Is it appropriate for me to declare my COI on the talk page for the company and then to update these changes citing these two publications?
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/icc-clutch-integrate-form-g2o-130000428.html https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2019/08/27/new-owners-new-ceo-new-name-for-columbus-it.html
Please advise. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gpalozzi (talk • contribs) --Gpalozzi (talk) 17:34, 11 September 2019 (UTC)gpalozzi
Thanks for the prompt reply!
Note I said please read wp:COI before making any further edits related to that page. I didn't prohibit you from editing the page, and neither does the policy (which I hope you have now read). Nor have I criticised your actions to date, in fact you are doing very well in my opinion. See wp:creed#bold.
But also note the notices that others have now added to Talk:Information Control Company. You are now strongly advised against direct edits, and I agree with this. There is a lot of Wikipedia policy etc out there, and you can't be expected to read it all immediately, particularly if you want to remain a single purpose account (but there's nothing stopping you from doing this if you wish).
So, how can you contribute? Good questions! We want you knowledge and expertise, even if only in the areas of your paid employment. Raise edits and issues as you are, on talk pages, and I'm afraid you then need to be patient. Wikipedia is not perfect. Hopefully, someone with no COI (and perhaps even more knowledge of our policies and procedures etc) will get around to using the information you provide in due course.
If this isn't happening fast enough for you, there are several ways of getting help. But again there's a learning curve in using them, so please feel free to start a conversation on my user talk page, and I'll do what I can. Andrewa (talk) 00:43, 12 September 2019 (UTC)
Disclosed COI
editNote the disclosed COI above. [1] Andrewa (talk) 00:43, 12 September 2019 (UTC)
September 2019
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Thank you. Drm310 🍁 (talk) 16:10, 11 September 2019 (UTC)