User talk:UKAlta

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June 2014

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Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, UKAlta. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:

avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, company, organization or competitors;
propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (see the {{request edit}} template);
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avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see WP:SPAM);
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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).

Also please note that editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything, such as the page you created at Rowan Preparatory School , is not permitted. Thank you. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 16:10, 9 July 2018 (UTC)Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 01:53, 10 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Username

Welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your username, "UKAlta", may not comply with our username policy. Please note that you may not use a username that represents the name of a company, group, organization, product, or website. Examples of usernames that are not allowed include "XYZ Company", "MyWidgetsUSA.com", and "Foobar Museum of Art". However, you are permitted to use a username that contains such a name if it identifies you individually, such as "Sara Smith at XYZ Company", "Mark at WidgetsUSA", or "FoobarFan87".

Please also note that Wikipedia does not allow accounts to be shared by multiple people, and that you may not advocate for or promote any company, group, organization, product, or website, regardless of your username. Please also read our paid editing policy and our conflict of interest guideline. If you are a single individual and are willing to contribute to Wikipedia in an unbiased manner, please request a change of username, by completing this form, choosing a username that complies with our username policy. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. Thank you. Jytdog (talk) 17:20, 11 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not edit further, until you have fixed your username and explictly disclosed your relationship with "UKAlta". You can reply here as an initial disclosure, and I can then help you to formally disclose, and then explain the conflict of interest management process here in Wikipedia. Please do reply here. Thanks. Jytdog (talk) 17:23, 11 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Apologies. I have used that handle for login for my own personal accounts for years, since moving to the UK. It is not a company. I will change that now. Thank you for bringing to my attention UKAlta (talk) 08:48, 17 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Can you please direct me to where I change the Username. UKAlta (talk) 08:48, 17 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for replying! Quick note on the logistics of discussing things on Talk pages, which are essential for everything that happens here. In Talk page discussions, we "thread" comments by indenting (see WP:THREAD) - when you reply to someone, you put a colon in front of your comment, which the Wikipedia software will render into an indent when you save your edit; if the other person has indented once, then you indent twice by putting two colons in front of your comment, which the WP software converts into two indents, and so on, and when that gets ridiculous you reset back to the margin (or "outdent") by putting this {{od}} in front of your comment. This also allows you to make it clear if you are also responding to something that someone else responded to if there are more than two people in the discussion; in that case you would indent the same amount as the person just above you in the thread. I hope that all makes sense. And you already have this part down, but at the end of the comment (and you don't need to set it off with a paragraph), please "sign" by typing exactly four (not 3 or 5) tildas "~~~~" which the WP software converts into a date stamp and links to your talk and user pages when you save your edit. This syste is how we know who said what to whom and when.

Please be aware that threading and signing are fundamental etiquette here, as basic as "please" and "thank you", and continually failing to thread and sign communicates rudeness, and eventually people may start to ignore you (see here).

I know this is unwieldy, but this is the software environment we have to work on. Sorry about that. Will reply on the substance in a second... Jytdog (talk) 14:09, 17 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Replying now... if you look at the notice above, you will see that it says "by completing this form" and "this form" is linked. If you click that link it will take you to the page where you can request a change in username so that it doesn't mislead people to think the account is a corporate account for any of the companies and organizations in the UK called "Alta".

Also, I've read the discussion at Kudpung's talk page here. It appears that you may have a real world business marketing or doing PR for schools. If so, per the WP:PAID policy, you need to explicitly disclose that here in Wikipedia. Explicitly. Would you please reply here and make that disclosure? Once you do, I can help you formalize it, and then walk you through our conflict of interest management process. Best regards Jytdog (talk) 14:16, 17 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your comments and help Jytdog! I previously worked for a company that worked with schools and I only helped one school to set up their Wikipidia page - it wasn't part of our offering, but they needed some help. You are right, I have now gone out on my own and am doing work paid work with schools so see there is a conflict of interest there now. My apologies, I really hadn't spend much time in Wikipedia and so didn't really know all the rules. I'm not being paid to do a wikipedia page for the latest school but rather offered as part of what I'm doing. I do understand the conflict now however and won't be contributing going forward. Thank you for your time UKAlta (talk) 16:35, 19 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

OK. If you do decide to offer Wikipedia editing for your clients (as an explicit part of the paid service or an "extra" -- either way is still considered paid editing and a conflict of interest here in Wikipedia), please ping me and I can walk you through the conflict of interest management process. Jytdog (talk) 18:34, 19 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Jytdog. I will certainly reach out if I decide to offer that service. Thank you again for your time. UKAlta (talk) 10:17, 12 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]