Misplaced Pages

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This page documents an English Misplaced Pages ]. Editors should generally follow it, though exceptions may apply. Substantive edits to this page should reflect consensus. When in doubt, discuss first on this guideline's talk page.

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In keeping with Misplaced Pages's neutral point of view policy, edits where there is a clear conflict of interest, or where such a conflict can or might be justifiably assumed based on the proximity of the editor to the subject, are strongly discouraged. The article Misplaced Pages:Conflict of interest discusses criteria to be applied in recognising such conflicted edits, and what to do then. This article is directed towards editors who are in the position of having such a conflict.

Of special concern are organisational conflicts of interest such as those posed by edits made by public relations departments of corporations or other public or private for-profit or not-for-profit organisations, or by professional editors paid by said organizations to edit a Misplaced Pages article with the sole intent of improving that organisation's image. Failure to follow these guidelines may put the editor at serious risk of embarrassing himself or clients.

Note the warnings at Misplaced Pages:Conflict of interest#Ignoring the guidelines, and the consequences. Do not start lightly editing Misplaced Pages on matters close to you.

Avoid conflict of interest edits

If you fit either of these descriptions:

1. you are receiving monetary or other benefits or considerations to edit Misplaced Pages as a representative of an organization (whether directly as an employee or contractor of that organization, or indirectly as an employee or contractor of a firm hired by that organization for public relations purposes); or,
2. you expect to derive monetary or other benefits or considerations from editing Misplaced Pages, as, for example, by being the owner, officer or other stakeholder of a company or other organisation about which you are writing;

we very strongly encourage you to avoid editing Misplaced Pages in areas in which you appear to have a conflict of interest. Misplaced Pages's neutral point of view policy states that all Misplaced Pages articles must represent views fairly and without bias. A conflict of interest may significantly and negatively affect Misplaced Pages's ability to meet this requirement of impartiality. It is for that reason that editors with an apparent conflict of interest may be treated with suspicion, despite the policy here that one assumes good faith.

If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid:

1. editing articles related to your organization or its competitors;
2. participating in deletion discussions about articles related to your organization or its competitors;
3. linking to the Misplaced Pages article or website of your corporation in other articles (see Misplaced Pages:Spam).

Rather than editing Misplaced Pages, you should write a potential article on your own website, or create a listing on another wiki such as Yellowikis. If you wish to have an article on Misplaced Pages, license your writing under the GNU Free Documentation License, and ask a Wikipedian to consider copying some or all of the article onto Misplaced Pages.

If you feel it is necessary to make changes to Misplaced Pages articles, despite an actual or apparent conflict of interest on your part, we strongly encourage you to submit content (changes or additions to articles or subsections of articles) for community review, and to let one or more trusted community members make judgements concerning posting some or all of the content into the main Misplaced Pages article space.

Full articles

If you wish to submit an entire article for community review, follow this process for submitting articles and subsections of articles for community review:

1. Create a user page for yourself that describes you and your professional background.
2. Edit that page and add a link to a subpage for every article you intend to create, using the syntax ] (note the leading slash).
3. Click the red link, and create your article. Make sure it conforms to Misplaced Pages guidelines (simplified version).
4. Add a link to this article, of the form ], to the list below.

Using user space or any other part of Misplaced Pages for advertising purposes may result in an indefinite block. Label user space articles with the below template so it is clear they are not Misplaced Pages articles. Also put {{proposed|type=article}} at the beginning of the article, and use <nowiki> around category markups so they are not included into by Misplaced Pages categories.

The community will review and comment on the talk page of that user subpage. If content is to be placed in the main Misplaced Pages space, it is to be done by someone who is willing to stand behind that content as if he wrote it himself, deleting, rewriting or moving onto the talk page of the article anything he is not willing to stand behind 100%.

Template to be used to label user space articles

Articles pending review

• User:Powerscore/PowerScore - moved to userspace by me; see User talk:Powerscore. Λυδαcιτγ 17:50, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

Changes to articles

If you wish to suggest additions or changes to a pre-existing article, use that article's talk page.

1. Create a user page for yourself that describes you and your professional background.
2. Go to the talk page of the article.
3. Create a new section by clicking the "+" at the top of the page. Title it "Proposed change" or "Proposed addition". Type in the changes you wish to have made, and sign using ~~~~.

See also

Misplaced Pages policies and guidelines

• Misplaced Pages:Conflict of interest
• Misplaced Pages:Spam

Further reading

• The wide world of Misplaced Pages, and why PR practitioners should take note, an essay from the Public Relations Society of America. Note that this does not necessarily express the views of the Misplaced Pages community.
• User:Jmabel/PR Some good advice to PR firms and people.