User talk:Douglas McCaffrey

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16:03, 20 June 2016 (UTC)

Strathberry

Hello Douglas McCaffrey, and welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that you created a new article about a subject we already have an article about, in order to fix the fact that the existing article has an old name for the company. Instead of doing this, we need to move the old article, Strathberry of Scotland to the new name, Strathberry. This has to be done in order to preserve the editing history of the article, but unfortunately it can't be done as long as there is an article at Strathberry. Could I ask you to tag your newly created article, Strathberry, with the template {{db-author}}? This will flag the article for deletion, and once it has been deleted the old article can be moved to the new name. You can then edit the article to update it, but please make sure to declare any conflict of interest you may have. Thank you. --bonadea contributions talk 16:21, 20 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Douglas McCaffrey. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places, or things you have written about in the article Strathberry, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic, and it is important when editing Wikipedia articles that such connections be completely transparent. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. In particular, we ask that you please:

avoid editing or creating articles related to you and your family, friends, school, company, club, or organization, as well as any competing companies' projects or products;
instead, you are encouraged to propose changes on the Talk pages of affected article(s) (see the {{request edit}} template);
when discussing affected articles, disclose your COI (see WP:DISCLOSE);
avoid linking to the Wikipedia article or to the website of your organization in other articles (see WP:SPAM);
exercise great caution so that you do not violate Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID).

Please take a few moments to read and review Wikipedia's policies regarding conflicts of interest, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, sourcing and autobiographies.

PamD 07:25, 21 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Are you the same person as the previous editor Douglas at Strathberry (talk · contribs)? If you have a connection with the company you must not edit articles about it without declaring your Conflict of Interest. This has already been explained to you at User talk:Douglas at Strathberry.Pam D 07:25, 21 June 2016 (UTC)}}[reply]

And I notice another username: Strathberry (talk · contribs) - was that also you? PamD 07:34, 21 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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