User talk:Zarlinker
January 2010
Your edits at Zarlink and a possible conflict of interest
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January 2010
There are two issues with this:
- You may have a neutral point of viewpolicy, you must exercise great caution when editing on topics related to your organization.
- Your account changing your username to avoid giving the impression that your personal account is being used for promotional purposes.
Regardless of whether you change your name or create a new account, you are not exempted from the policy to not edit in a conflict of interest. For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see
Eastmain (talk) 20:08, 2 January 2010 (UTC)
You are encouraged to
- Adding
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- Adding