Luojie820

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Hello, Luojie820, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited 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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One rule we do have in connection with conflicts of interest is that accounts used by more than one person will unfortunately be blocked from editing. Wikipedia generally does not allow editors to have usernames which imply that the account belongs to a company or corporation. If you have a username like this, you should request a change of username or create a new account. (A name that identifies the user as an individual within a given organization may be OK.)

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Conflict of interest

Hi. It is important that you read conflict of interest and paid editing and ensure that you comply with those policies when editing at the Wikipedias. Lots of link spam is somewhat suspicious. Thanks. — billinghurst sDrewth 07:12, 7 March 2020 (UTC)

CIO

Hi Billinghurst,

Thank you for your message. Sorry for didn't notice the CIO rules before I edit the article. After reading those rules，here's what I want to say:

1. Do I have CIO?

Yes. www.railaround.com is my personal website. I am a rail fan, also a public accountant in China. My whole career has nothing related to web development, or GIS or railway at all. I found my interest in coding when I processing VBAs in spreadsheet when doing my daily financial work. After several years of self learning of coding, I create this website which combine two of my hobbies, rail travel and coding.

2. Is it a paid editing?

Absolutely Not. As I said, www.railaround.com is my personal website for my personal hobbies, no one paid me for editing.

3. Multiple IP address

Because you mentioned about accounts used by more than one person, I'm wondering if you noticed that I used different IP address to login. That is because in mainland China, I can't visit Wikipedia directly because of the internet censorship. I usually use two methods to visit Wikipedia, VPN or a tool called Accessor. So, If you see my IP Address is from Chengdu, that's my real address, if not, then I’m using VPN. I'm sure that I am the only user of this account. By the way, Luo(罗) is my family name, Jie(洁) is my given name, and my birthday is 20th August, so luojie820 is my account name :)

4. Why do I want to edit the article?

I admit that part of the reason I edit the article is because I do want my website been visit by more rail fans. But also, the series articles of "Rail transport by country" have help me a lot when I create my website, I believe the maps I provide and the links do help people to get more information about rail transport.

5.Suggestion Needed

Although I do have CIO, but I also believe the contents I edited is proper and give more information about rail transport. After reading the CIO rules, here's what I plan to do next: Not edit the article directly, but use talk page of that article with Connected contributor template, state my CIO and the contents which I want to edit, then someone will help me to edit that articles. Do I understand it correctly? Please correct me or give me more advise.

Again, thank you for your message, please let me know if there's any other things I should be aware of.

Luojie820 (talk) 10:17, 7 March 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply, following the guidelines is exactly what is needed. Your webpages would not be considered reliable sources. What would be reliable sources are the locations that you sourced the material. Best place to get beginner support for what you are doing is the teahouse, and I am including an invitation with a link below. — billinghurst sDrewth 10:23, 7 March 2020 (UTC)

Hello! Luojie820, you are invited to join other new editors and friendly hosts in the Teahouse. The Teahouse is an awesome place to meet people, ask questions and learn more about Wikipedia. Please join us!

I agree with Billinghurst that using your own website as a reference is not allowed, and directing people reading an article to your website, likewise. Many editors are experts in their field, or because of their own research have potentially useful information, but Wikipedia requires content be verifiable. David notMD (talk) 13:54, 7 March 2020 (UTC)

billinghurst, David notMD,

Thank you both for reply and for the invitation to the teahouse.

As I said in teahouse, I am just a rail fan, the website I created is purely for my personal hobbies. I travelled a lot, each time before I went abroad, I read "Rail transport by country" series articles in Wikipedia and find a passenger railway map of that country to plan my journey. However, I always found a simple PNG map can not provide enough detailed information. That's the reason I create my website -- an interactive map of pure passenger railway information.

I think if there's currently no similar map with enough authority, the readers of "Rail transport by country" articles may willing to see a less authority map, even it says "hey, we can not confirm the accurate, errors may contains".

However, I understand your concern and respect all the rules which make Wikipedia such a great place. I just say what I think about of this question and hope it can be understand.

Thanks.

Luojie820 (talk) 14:47, 7 March 2020 (UTC)

Your thread has been archived

Hi Luojie820! You created a thread called How to be a Reliable Sources for Maps and Map Website at Wikipedia:Teahouse, but it has been archived because there was no discussion for a few days. You can still find the archived discussion here. If you have any additional questions that weren't answered then, please create a new thread. Archival by Lowercase sigmabot III, notification delivery by Muninnbot, both automated accounts. You can opt out of future notifications by placing {{bots|deny=Muninnbot}} (ban this bot) or {{nobots}} (ban all bots) on your user talk page. Muninnbot (talk) 19:02, 10 March 2020 (UTC)