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ukexpat (talk) 13:58, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
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Thank you for this advice --Mya Toska (talk) 01:39, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
Welcome to the enormously complex mechanism which is Wikipedia! You now run the risk of stumbling on one of our harsher aspects: the conflict of interest rules, adopted and adapted to combat the efforts of some groups to use us as a marketing tool. Our template covers the basics pretty well, so I'm going to insert one of our boilerplate templates after this paragraph. Although the language is generic, the advice is solid. Please read and follow the links. If you have a close connection to some of the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, edits where there is a conflict of interest, or where such a conflict might reasonably be inferred from the tone of the edit and the proximity of the editor to the subject, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:
- editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with;
- participating in deletion discussions about articles related to your organization or its competitors; and
- linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam).
Please familiarize yourself with relevant policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, verifiability of information, and autobiographies.
For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. For more details about what, exactly, constitutes a conflict of interest, please see our conflict of interest guidelines. Thank you. --Orange Mike | Talk 13:47, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
I do not think anyone would say that I attempted to conceal it, but it seems to me that I should explicitly declare an association with WHH (the company). The COI policy (which a first responder pointed to) reads to me as both necessary to Wikipedia (WP) integrity; and, taken with the clear and sensible editorial policies and processes, benign in regard to any particular commercial interest. I now doubt whether anyone associated with the company ought to create a WP article about it. The questions about what value this would create for WP or WHH seem to me to be answerable in two words: very little. The company, its associates and clients have an interest in using corporate wikis as tools for collaboration. I have learned useful things scouting the policy architecture and enjoyed receiving thoughtful communication in this minor inquiry. At this point, of course, all that has occurred is that I have learned useful things from your community. I will think about how I might make myself useful to it in future.
Sincerely yours