User talk:Davidthomasatiiroc

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Further to this, I assume you refer (on my talk page) to a warning I gave to 204.9.162.70. I hope a few things are clear: (1) Wikipedia is an encyclopedia. There are lots of things it is not - see WP:NOT. In particular, it is not an advertising billboard or a blog site. If it allowed itself to be used as those things it would rapidly lose all credibility as an encyclopedia. For this reason, such policies as WP:NPOV and WP:COI are crucial to Wikipedia's good standing, and will be enforced. (2) Editors who edit from an IP address (that is, without registering a username as you have done) may share that IP address with thousands of others with whom they have no connection. They may therefore receive messages on the talk page for that IP address that are not intended personally for them. (3) There is a long history of individuals and organisations attempting to talk themselves up on Wikipedia pages about them and having their efforts backfire by generating unwelcome publicity about the attempt. There is, of course, no prohibition against removing information which is patently defamatory or untrue, but beyond that self-publicity is frowned upon, for reasons I have explained. I suggest that anyone in a position of responsibility for the good name of a prominent organisation will want to encourage its employees not to edit pages about that organisation themselves. They are not the people best placed to do so. Philip Trueman (talk) 12:08, 6 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not really the person best placed to help you further. If you consider that the article could and should be improved, then I suggest you start by reading WP:PSCOI, and follow the advice there not to edit the article yourselves but to suggest improvements on the article's talk page. I feel I should point out that the whole business of 'paid editing' on Wikipedia is getting a lot of attention at the moment - Wikipedia has become enough of an automatic go-to reference for everything that it has become as essential for organisations to have a 'good' Wikipedia article as it is for them to have a social media presence. A good example of the kind of publicity misplaced efforts can generate is the one here [1] affecting the German Wikipedia. Philip Trueman (talk) 09:06, 18 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada

Are you still looking for anothereditor to assist with the IIROC entry? Damotclese (talk) 22:29, 29 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]