LAdams08

April 2016

Please do not add promotional material to Wikipedia, as you did to FMC Technologies. While objective prose about beliefs, organisations, people, products or services is acceptable, Wikipedia is not intended to be a vehicle for soapboxing, advertising or promotion. Thank you. Theroadislong (talk) 18:49, 18 April 2016 (UTC)

Welcome!

Hello, LAdams08, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited was FMC Technologies, which appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article. Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

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Help me!

Please help me with...disclosing a conflict of interest about updating my company's Wikipedia page. It's inaccurate and I need to update it. I also need help retrieving the work I've done so far. I spent a lot of time on it (unfortunately doing it within Wikipedia since I was unfamiliar with how to edit in the space). My content was pulled down without contacting me first or checking on the facts and I don't understand why. It seems an editor wanted to pull it down without checking facts first.

LAdams08 (talk) 19:25, 18 April 2016 (UTC) LAdams08

• You are talking about a COI in FMC Technologies, an article you edited in this Diff of FMC Technologies. I'll try to clarify. Nobody WP:OWNs articles here, so nobody needs to contact you before reverting your edits. Theroadislong did post a {{uw-advert2}} warning here on your user page and has since expanded on the matter on their own talk page where you asked for an explanation. Please for starters read Wikipedia:Conflict of interest and Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure. Sam Sailor ^Talk! 19:47, 18 April 2016 (UTC)
• The material you were trying to add is also copyright, as it appears in the company's annual report and elsewhere online. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted material, including text or images from print publications or from other websites, without an appropriate and verifiable license. All such contributions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images—you must write using your own words. — Diannaa (talk) 20:06, 22 April 2016 (UTC)