User talk:Carl Alexander Hughes

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Welcome to Wikipedia, Carl Alexander Hughes! Thank you for your contributions. I am Pigsonthewing and I have been editing Wikipedia for some time, so if you have any questions, feel free to leave me a message on my talk page. If you wish to contact me on this page, please use {{Ping|Pigsonthewing}} such that I get notified of your request. You can also check out Wikipedia:Questions or type {{help me}} at the bottom of this page. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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Also, when you post on talk pages you should sign your name using four tildes (~~~~); that will automatically produce your username and the date. I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:42, 14 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Conflict of interest editing on Wikipedia[edit]

Hello, Carl Alexander Hughes. 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 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, colleagues, company, organization or competitors;
propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the {{request edit}} template);
disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see Wikipedia:Conflict of interest#How to disclose a COI);
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 are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to 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 Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. - Bri.public (talk) 20:08, 16 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for disclosing your conflict of interest at the noticeboard. Best practice is to a) have separate volunteer and paid accounts b) keep a list of articles for which you are compensated, preferably on your userpage and c) add {{connected contributor (paid)}} to talkpages of those articles. - Bri.public (talk) 20:10, 16 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

One more thing, if you create an article about your employer, please do it through articles for creation so it can be properly reviewed by impartial editors. - Bri.public (talk) 20:12, 16 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]