User talk:BP CIB Director

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, BP CIB Director. 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, clients, 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 Wikipedia:Spam#External link spamming);
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. Madeline (part of me) 12:01, 11 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Maddy

I am communications director of the company I wish to update on wikipedia. I have been given the task of updating the company information. I would be grateful for some guidance, because the instructions above are very confusing.

kind regards

Ben 212.36.60.72 (talk) 16:20, 11 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

October 2022

Welcome to Wikipedia. Because we have a policy against usernames which give the impression that the account represents a group, club, organization, company, or website, I have blocked this account from editing. You are welcome to continue editing after you have chosen a new username that complies with Wikipedia's username policy.

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Thank you. Orange Mike | Talk 15:39, 11 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Orange Mike

Can you please tell me what I should do to update the wiki page of the company I work for? I am communications director of CIBUK and I spent all morning updating the page only to have it blocked.

Kind regards

Bem BP CIB Director (talk) 15:48, 11 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

{{unblock|reason=Your reason here I am the communications director of the company I am trying to update on Wikipedia. If someone could get back to me as soon as possible I would be grateful.

My email address is <redacted>>]]

Kind regards

Ben Philips BP CIB Director (talk) 15:51, 11 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

1. Companies, and jobs within companies, can't have Wikipedia accounts. That privilege is reserved for individual human beings. "Ben at CIB" could have an account. "CIB" or "CIB PR Guy" cannot.

2. We don't care what a company has to say about itself. A "communications director" by definition is a flack, an PR person, a spin doctor, whose task is to make their client look good. We only care about facts (good or bad) attested to by reliable sources without any conflict of interest. Potentially useful information from reliable sources can be pointed out on the talk page of the subject article, inviting editors without a COI to examine the information and considering whether it should be added to the article.

3. We don't do behind-the-scenes communications, so your e-mail was no good, just spambait. Anything you want to say should be publicly posted, so that the Wikipedia editing community may consider it on its merits, openly and cleanly. --Orange Mike | Talk 16:30, 11 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Article nominated for deletion

Hi, I've just nominated the article for the Campaign for an Independent Britain to be deleted as I do not believe it complies with Wikipedia's policies. In particular, it breaches the requirement that the subject be notable. This requirement is somewhat technical at times but you can find further information at the page where my nomination will be discussed. Please let me know if there is anything I can help with. I hope you will follow the instructions Orange Mike left you above so that you will be unblocked and can contribute to the deletion debate. Jtrrs0 (talk) 19:28, 11 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]