User talk:Wkelly.cbre

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

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited was CBRE Group, 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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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{Help me}} before the question. Again, welcome! Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 20:26, 29 June 2019 (UTC)

Just to expand a bit on the above: please note that our Terms of Use state that "you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation." An editor who contributes as part of his or her paid employment is required to disclose that fact. If you are receiving, or expect to receive, monetary or other benefits or considerations from editing Wikipedia as a representative of an organization (as an employee or contractor; as an employee or contractor of a firm hired by that organization for public-relations purposes; as owner, officer or other stakeholder; or by having some other form of close financial relationship with a topic you wish to write about), then you must disclose your employer, client and affiliation. You can post such a mandatory disclosure to your user page at User:Wkelly.cbre. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Wkelly.cbre|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}. If I am mistaken – you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits – please say so, here on this page. Otherwise, please make the required disclosure. In either case, please do not edit further until you have answered this message. Thank you, Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 20:27, 29 June 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for the details Justlettersandnumbers. Is there an area where I can submit large batch edits in a word document, or do all edits need to be itemized and manually typed out on the associated Talk page? I have updated my user profile with my employment disclosures, and we have several additional edits we would like to make. All the edits are fact based, mostly updating specific titles, rankings and other information. Wkelly.cbre (talk) 18:23, 6 September 2019 (UTC)

Hey Justlettersandnumbers, I made edits to the CBRE Group page using all the processes and disclosures that you had previously mentioned. It appears all of those edits have been reversed over the weekend, but I don't see any discussion on the Talk page as to why they were removed. Can you please give me some guidance so we can get the page updated appropriately. I made sure to include appropriate citations, made mention of each change on the talk page, and included my disclosure as a CBRE employee on both the talk pages, my user profile and in many of the edits I submitted. I'm not sure what else to do to offer unbiased edits. Wkelly.cbre (talk) 13:56, 9 September 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for making proper disclosure, Wkelly! Yes, I reverted those edits – you can see why by looking at the page history; the edit summary I left was "WP:COI/WP:PAID editors are STRONGLY DISCOURAGED from editing the article directly, but may request changes on the talk-page".

I don't know if you read the The plain and simple conflict of interest guide that I linked to above, but if not, please do so. In a nutshell: you should not attempt to edit the article; if there are serious errors or omissions of fact, you can request changes on the talk-page, starting your request with {{request edit}} and citing independent reliable sources in support of any change. Brevity is strongly recommended – requests that are unduly long or complex are relatively unlikely to be accepted, or indeed even looked at. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 16:54, 9 September 2019 (UTC)

Thank you Justlettersandnumbers, that's helpful. My apologies for the misunderstanding, it's a lot to take in and I was under the impression I was going about it correctly. I will make note of the suggested pages on the Talk page shortly. Would it be best to have an individual request for each change, or to lump several changes into one Talk subject? Wkelly.cbre (talk) 16:58, 9 September 2019 (UTC)