Kristieskunberg
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editHello, Kristieskunberg, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.
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before the question. Again, welcome! Drmies (talk) 15:17, 15 February 2022 (UTC)
- Please don't reinsert promotional material--and you must declare your conflict of interest. Drmies (talk) 22:09, 15 February 2022 (UTC)
Conflict of interest declaration
editHello, Declaring my conflict of interest. I am a team member of the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library. Kristieskunberg (talk) 22:26, 15 February 2022 (UTC)
Hello Drmies :) New to Wikipedia, thanks for your patience. Was trying to add two new board members to the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library page. I am a team member of of the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library which I am declaring/understand is a conflict of interest. Hoping you can review my edits and publish. Thank you! Kristieskunberg (talk) 22:29, 15 February 2022 (UTC)
- OK, that's a start. Please see Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest#How_to_disclose_a_COI, which tells you how to declare it on your user page. Wikipedia is not a place for listing every detail, like every board member of an organization. Two of them are notable; that's fine. But non-notable ones are, by convention, not listed. Thank you, Drmies (talk) 22:32, 15 February 2022 (UTC)
An account in your actual name is going to be associated with you forever (modulo various arcane processes that cannot completely dissassociate you). I suggest that you actually steer clear of your work entirely. Treat editing Wikipedia as something that you would do in hobby time, completely separate from work. We're all volunteers doing stuff for a charity. Treat this as something that you want to be able still do on your own time now and in the future, whatever your job is, and don't endanger it by involving your job. Uncle G (talk) 08:32, 17 February 2022 (UTC)