Hellohayden

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Hellohayden. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the page Tyro Payments, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:

• avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, company, organization or competitors;
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Also please note that editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 00:56, 1 November 2018 (UTC)

Hello and welcome to Wikipedia. You have an obvious conflict of interest and you must declare it. If you work directly or indirectly for an organisation, or otherwise are acting on its behalf, you are very strongly discouraged from attempting to write an article at all. If you are paid directly or indirectly by the organisation you are writing about, you are required by the Wikimedia Terms of Use to disclose your employer, client and affiliation. You can post such a mandatory disclosure to your user page at User:Hellohayden. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Hellohayden|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}. If you are being compensated, please provide the required disclosure. Note that editing with a COI is discouraged, but permitted as long as it is declared. Concealing a COI can lead to a block. Please do not edit further until you respond to this message.HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 01:12, 1 November 2018 (UTC)

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Hi @HickoryOughtShirt?4:, thanks for your message & the above information. I am new to editing wikipedia so am getting a bit lost navigating around. You're correct about the conflict of interest. I am a web developer currently employed by Tyro and have been asked to update the company information as much of it is years out of date. I'll figure out the COI disclosure and from the looks of it I should submit future edits as proposals.

Hellohayden. Thank you very much for agreeing to follow our policies. Yes, you should submit future edits on Talk:Tyro Payments by following Wikipedia:Simple conflict of interest edit request. You should also know that Wikipedia should go off of secondary sources as we are more interested in what is said about the company than what the company says about itself (ie. don't use press releases when a secondary source is available). Before making a request, be sure to read over our reliable sources policy and our neutral point of view policy. The more neutral and well sourced your request is, the more likely it is to be added. You can ask further questions here, on my talk page, or at the WP:TEAHOUSE which is a forum for new editors. HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 01:37, 1 November 2018 (UTC)

Hi again @HickoryOughtShirt?4:, I've got the first draft of proposed page up if you'd like to have a look. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Tyro_Payments#2018_Tyro_Updates

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