User talk:Sensebased

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Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Sensebased. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places, or things you have written about in the article Bot Colony, 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. You have an obvious conflict of interest, and at least some of your edits appear to be promotional. If you cannot edit neutrally, and if you have a COI and do not disclose it, you may be blocked. Drmies (talk) 17:23, 20 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Sensebased: I have to go to bed soon, but I'd like to give you some advice. The first thing I did when I saw your post on Drmies' talk page was look for a third-party reference about the game being available again, because on Wikipedia we base our articles as far as possible on non-primary sources; and because coverage by others is also the main way in which we determine notability (whether something should have an article), as well as emphasis within an article. (For whether there should be an article, this page sums it up nicely.) So you're on the right track with proposing a reference to support adding your Fifth Law of Robotics, but it will depend how extensive the coverage is. I recommend you ask at the Teahouse, which is our help space for new editors.

More importantly at this point, Drmies has placed that template above, and you have stated that you do have a conflict of interest. Again, you've been doing the right thing in no longer editing articles about your business interests, instead suggesting changes on talk pages. But you will also need to create your user page and put a statement on it, and I suggest you also ask at the Teahouse for people to walk you through exactly what's required.

And thanks for your edits. :-) I'm sorry that the project has developed such a steep learning curve, especially where the question of COI comes into play, and I hope I was able to help a bit. Yngvadottir (talk) 21:24, 21 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]