Vibrant Creative

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Vibrant Creative. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places, or things you have written about on Wikipedia, 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. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 04:08, 8 November 2016 (UTC)

Your username

Welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your username, "Vibrant Creative", may not comply with our username policy. Please note that you may not use a username that represents the name of a company, group, organization, product, or website. Examples of usernames that are not allowed include "XYZ Company", "MyWidgetsUSA.com", and "Foobar Museum of Art". However, you are invited to use a username that contains such a name if it identifies you personally, such as "Jack Smith at XYZ Company", "Mark at WidgetsUSA", or "FoobarFan87".

Please also note that Wikipedia does not allow accounts to be shared by multiple people, and that you may not advocate for or promote any company, group, organization, product, or website, regardless of your username. Moreover, I recommend that you read our conflict of interest guideline. If you are a single individual and are willing to contribute to Wikipedia in an unbiased manner, please create a new account or request a change of username, by completing this form, that complies with our username policy. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. Here's the policy about usernames as well. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 04:09, 8 November 2016 (UTC)

• Here's the information about usernames as well. I can send you a copy of the article, but the main requirements are that it must have the promotional content cleaned up, it must have better sourcing per WP:RS, and you can only submit it via WP:AfC. AfC is the Articles for Creation process and what this means is that another, unaffiliated editor will look over the page and decide if it's ready to go live. If it's declined then you will be given another chance to fix any problems and resubmit it once more. The only time these pages get deleted is usually if something is very, very promotional, has copyright in the article, or the draft is not edited for six months. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 04:13, 8 November 2016 (UTC)

Thank you very much for your help & info on this task. I'm happy to change my username to better fit policies & will let you know what that change will be. A copy of the previous version of the page/article would be greatly appreciated. I'm very willing to work through the regular creation process as you've mentioned, though it does sound like there would be a heavy COI & this page creation may not be possible though myself, which is understandable if it violates policy. I will certainly & thoroughly look through the information & links you've provided. If the EmailThisUser feature cannot send the page version file, I can provide another email address. Vibrant Creative (talk) 22:02, 8 November 2016 (UTC)

• Sorry for the late reply - I've emailed you a copy of the article. My recommendation would be to work on a new version of the article at AfC, which I've mentioned above. The thing about COI is that it's heavily discouraged to edit with a COI because it's easy to write a non-neutral article, but you can still do it if you're very, very careful. During the editing process you can get live, almost immediate help via the WP:TEAHOUSE, since there's almost always someone there to help out and answer questions. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 11:06, 11 November 2016 (UTC)