Jhenifer

November 2012

Hello, Jhenifer. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Braid Station, you may need to consider our guidance on conflicts of interest.

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Response

Hi, I have no idea if I'm formatting this response incorrectly --- so apologies if this is not done right!

I've read through the conflict of interest documents and don't believe I've violated them.

I do work for TransLink, but the only change I made is to clarify that the station and bus loop are entirely in fare zone 2, not a combination of zone 2&3 as suggested by the previous version of the page. The station's fare zone is just a fact of our system, not a partisan/biased opinion. If a customer had believed the zone description in the previous page, they may have bought the wrong type of ticket and/or thought the zone boundaries are different than what our official map says.

So given the COI nutshell description is: "Do not write about these things unless you are certain that a neutral editor would agree that your edits improve Wikipedia" --- I would argue that it is a neutral fact and does improve the quality of Wikipedia by clearly representing the correct fare zone. My interest is only in representing accurate information in the site.

More about TransLink fare zones can be found here: http://www.translink.ca/en/Fares-and-Passes/Fare-Zone-Map.aspx

Jhenifer (talk) 06:01, 23 November 2012 (UTC)