114.143.252.157

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, 114.143.252.157. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the page RPG Life Sciences, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest 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;
• propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (see the {{request edit}} template);
• disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see WP:DISCLOSE);
• avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see WP:SPAM);
• do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID).

Also please note that editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 06:53, 3 April 2019 (UTC)

Hi @HickoryOughtShirt?4: Thanks for your message. I am associated with RPG Life Sciences. I want to improve the article and want to make it advertisement free, as the article suggests on the top, "article contains content that is written like an advertisement. Please help improve it by removing promotional content and inappropriate external links, and by adding encyclopedic content written from a neutral point of view." I want to improve it. Can you please guide me with the process. --114.143.252.157 (talk) 07:08, 3 April 2019 (UTC)

Hi IP and thank you for disclosing your conflict of interest. Here is how you move forward:

Firstly, the BEST course of action is to stop editing. Wikipedia strongly discourages paid editing and the best way to avoid being blocked etc. is to just let some of Wikipedia's thousands of volunteer editors (with no conflict of interest) edit the page. That is the best advice I can give someone with a COI. You should read over our paid and conflict of interest editing policies which are also stated above.

Regardless if you feel the need to ignore my good advice above, you are required by the Wikimedia Terms of Use to disclose your employer, client and affiliation. Following this, you should make WP:Edit requests on the articles talk page (Talk:RPG Life Sciences) where you will propose changes.

Let me make this very clear: Wikipedia strongly discourages paid editing. Volunteer editors are often resentful when paid editors ask for help because they say that they "need" it for their clients. The encyclopedia doesn't need to help your clients, even if your clients need business, which they can find by advertising on their own web sites. So follow the advice that I have given. Us volunteer editors will be glad to answer questions about Wikipedia policies and guidelines, and we will review your submissions. It is your job to write your submissions verifiably and neutrally. HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 07:22, 3 April 2019 (UTC)

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