User talk:LeePLester
Managing conflict of interest
[edit]Hi. Thanks for taking the time to express your viewpoint. There are probably a number of steps that I see to managing a CoI.
- Seriously address the criteria at Wikipedia:Conflict of interest
- Personally I would think that you should give a little background to what you are doing and why on your user page. You may need to be more open than others due to a CoI for people to readily accept that you are acting in good faith
- Be seen to be contributing more widely
- If you just come in and edit pages where you have a potential CoI, then the look is not good. It could be argued that the spirit of which you are using Wikipedia is personal or financial interest. That could be seen as an abuse of the overarching project.
- On any page with a potential CoI, consider how you should contribute
- If someone of now is sufficiently notable, then someone usually does a page. Judging notability when there is vested or CoI is an issue. Consider whether adding info to a talk page and getting it subsumed into an article reduces CoI.
On the article in question, I would like the CoI banner to stay at least until there are edits by third parties, and/or there is a means for others to judge NPOV. -- billinghurst (talk) 01:02, 30 September 2008 (UTC)