Hello, Greglasley. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you have an external relationship with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Cheryl Johnson, 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.
- 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. Note that Wikipedia's terms of use require disclosure of your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation.
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. Melcous (talk) 02:20, 1 August 2015 (UTC)
- Hi Greg, thanks for your message on my talk page. I understand that navigating Wikipedia for the first time can be daunting! I will have another look over the article later, it may be that some information might simply need to be omitted if there are no reliable secondary sources for it (e.g. a birth certificate is a primary source, whereas wikipedia replies on information that is published and available for readers to check in reliable secondary sources). Having a conflict of interest doesn't mean you can't contribute to the page, but it does mean you need to be very careful about doing so. The best advice I can give is that if there are things on the page you think are wrong, or information that is not included that you think should be, to go to the article's talk page and make suggestions there, and then let other editors read your suggestions (and you can post links to any sources you come across that others might not be aware of) and they can make the actual changes to the article. Things can sometimes move slowly at wikipedia, so while you may get a response almost immediately, it may also take some time for an editor to get to it. I have added the article on Cheryl to my "watch list" so I will be notified if you post anything on the talk page and can try to help you out if I can. If you have other questions, feel free to ask me and I'll do my best to answer - you can just reply here on your talk page and I will see the response. Regards, Melcous (talk) 00:21, 2 August 2015 (UTC)
Greglasley, you are invited to the Teahouse!
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