Kimberly at Reliance Foundry

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Hello, Kimberly at Reliance Foundry, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:

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Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or , and a volunteer should respond shortly. Again, welcome! Zackmann08 (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 19:00, 16 November 2016 (UTC)

November 2016

Hello, I'm Zackmann08. Thank you for your recent contributions to Reliance Foundry. I noticed that when you added the image to the infobox, you added it as a thumbnail. In the future, please do not use thumbnails when adding images to an infobox (see WP:INFOBOXIMAGE). What does this mean? Well in the infobox, when you specify the image you wish to use, instead of doing it like this:

|image=[[File:SomeImage.jpg|thumb|Some image caption]]

Instead just supply the name of the image. So in this case you can simply do:

|image=SomeImage.jpg.

There will then be a separate parameter for the image caption such as |caption=Some image caption. Please note that this is a generic form message I am leaving on your page because you recently added a thumbnail to an infobox. The specific parameters for the image and caption may be different for the infobox you are using! Please consult the Template page for the infobox being used to see better documentation. Thanks! Zackmann08 (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 19:00, 16 November 2016 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Kimberly at Reliance Foundry. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places, or things you have written about in the article Reliance Foundry, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic, and it is important when editing Wikipedia articles that such connections be completely transparent. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. In particular, we ask that you please:

• avoid editing or creating articles related to you and your family, friends, school, company, club, or organization, as well as any competing companies' projects or products;
• instead, you are encouraged to propose changes on the Talk pages of affected article(s) (see the {{request edit}} template);
• when discussing affected articles, disclose your COI (see WP:DISCLOSE);
• avoid linking to the Wikipedia article or to the website of your organization in other articles (see WP:SPAM);
• exercise great caution so that you do not violate Wikipedia's content policies.

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

Please take a few moments to read and review Wikipedia's policies regarding conflicts of interest, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, sourcing and autobiographies. Thank you. Linguist If you reply here, please add {{ping|Linguist111}} to your message 19:19, 16 November 2016 (UTC)

@Linguist111: Hi there,

I apologize - I'm a new user to Wikipedia, and was tasked with updating the company page. I did my best to follow the Wikipedia guidelines for editors with close associations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Best_practices_for_editors_with_close_associations

Now that I have already submitted my changes, is there a way to mention in the summary of edits that I have a COI? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kimberly at Reliance Foundry (talk • contribs) 19:27, 16 November 2016 (UTC)

Hi. You can't leave edit summaries for changes you have already submitted, but what you can do is make a dummy edit to the article to allow an edit summary for your previous changes. Add something like <!--dummy edit--> (this won't change anything in the article in its read mode) to the article and add your edit summary in the summary box. Linguist If you reply here, please add {{ping|Linguist111}} to your message 19:37, 16 November 2016 (UTC)

• Hello, in addition to having a COI it seems that you are a paid editor(as you were "tasked with updating the company page".) If so, then you need to review and comply with the paid editing policy as soon as possible; this is required by Wikipedia's Terms of Use if you are a paid editor. You can use your user page to make the appropriate declaration (click your username at the top of the screen). 331dot (talk) 18:40, 2 February 2018 (UTC)

Hello! Thanks, and sorry again for not quite understanding. I can contribute occasionally to metal casting pages that have details missing because of the nature of the work we do. So I've put a general note on this account that I'm submitting from work: does that capture the spirit of the rule, since it's for all edits with this account?@331dot: Kimberly at Reliance Foundry (talk) 19:15, 2 February 2018 (UTC)

That satisfies the disclosure requirement. It's a good idea to also mention it in edit summaries when you edit articles relevant to your COI, but your user page statement is sufficient for the requirement. Thank you 331dot (talk) 19:17, 2 February 2018 (UTC)