User talk:Shaunawatt

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I noticed that one of the first articles you edited was Beerenberg Farm, 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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Shaunawatt (talk)

Shauna Watt is employed by Beereneberg Farm and as such has been compensated for updating and editing the associated Beerenberg Farm page.

Shaunawatt (talk) LX I have added the conflict of interest declaration - although not sure if I have done it correctly. The Beerenberg page is published so I am now not sure how to submit that as a draft, can you help. I have also submitted several photographs through OTRS with authorisation from my boss at Beerenberg for approval to use.

I've already added {{connected contributor (paid)}} to Talk:Beerenberg Farm, which is where that template goes. As explained in Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure#How to disclose, you should add {{paid}} with appropriate details filled out – probably {{paid|employer=Beerenberg Farm}} – on your user page.

It looks like other users have already cleaned up most of the promotional language that you added, but you should refrain from making any additional changes directly to the article. Instead, you may propose changes on Talk:Beerenberg Farm. —LX (talk, contribs) 22:31, 7 February 2018 (UTC)

Shaunawatt (talk) Thanks four your help LX, I am trying to do the right thing but this is all new to me. I have now added the paid contributor template to my talk page. If my photographs get approved for use I will submit them as a draft edit for approval prior to publishing.

Shaunawatt (talk) I would like to add to the Innovation section of the Beerenberg Farm page a paragraph and a picture of the new factory opening something along the lines of: In June 2018 Beerenberg Farm completed a multi-million dollar project to expand and upgrade their manufacturing facility and head office. The new factory is a combination of state of the art manufacturing equipment and existing bottling lines including two DC Norris Kettle imported from the United Kingdom. The upgraded line can produce double the product volume in the same amount of time and produces a higher quality more consistent product. As an employee of the company, I am looking for permissions prior to editing the page to include this information. Thanks Shaunawatt (talk) 01:35, 17 July 2018 (UTC)

Hi Shauna. I just saw your message from a couple of months ago here. You need to either put it on the talk page for the article (talk:Beerenberg Farm) or use {{ping}} to alert the person you want to read a message you put here. Your draft text contains too many WP:Puffery adjectives, and no reference. Did the Courier do an article about the upgrade that could be cited, or some sort of fruit industry magazine? If DC Norris Kettle is important, is there a wikilink about them (I've never heard of it) or can you write an article about them or expand Fruit preserves without it sounding promotional? The actual information in your paragraph boils down to: "In June 2018 Beerenberg Farm completed an upgrade to its manufacturing facility and head office. The expanded factory includes two new kettles imported from the United Kingdom. It doubled the production capacity with better quality control." Some details of the size or speed of the new kettles could be interesting. The article doesn't seem to have much about the old/previous production facilities either. --Scott Davis ^Talk 13:43, 16 September 2018 (UTC)

{{ping}} Scott Davis, thanks I will change as you suggested and draft the submission on the Beerenberg Talk Page.

Done - but you actually need {{ping|ScottDavis}} so the system knows who to ping. --Scott Davis ^Talk 04:48, 17 September 2018 (UTC)