User talk:Fascinations

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Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia!

I hope not to seem unfriendly or make you feel unwelcome, but I noticed your username, and I am concerned that it might not meet Wikipedia's username policy for the following reason: name matches the owner of the Levitron trademark, the article you have been editing, and could be seen as promotional. After you look over that policy, could we discuss that concern here?

I'd appreciate learning your own views, for instance your reasons for wanting this particular name, and what alternative username you might accept that avoids raising this concern.

You have several options freely available to you:

• If you can relieve my concern through discussing it here, I can stop worrying about it.
• If the two of us can't agree here, we can ask for help through Wikipedia's dispute resolution process, such as requesting comments from other Wikipedians. Wikipedia administrators usually abide by agreements reached through this process.
• You can keep your contributions history under a new username. Visit Wikipedia:Changing username and follow the guidelines there.

Thank you. Daniel Case (talk) 09:14, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Conflict of interest

If you have a close connection to some of the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, edits where there is a conflict of interest, or where such a conflict might reasonably be inferred from the tone of the edit and the proximity of the editor to the subject, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:

1. editing articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with;
2. participating in deletion discussions about articles related to your organization or its competitors;
3. linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam);

   and you must always:

4. avoid breaching relevant policies and guidelines, especially neutral point of view, verifiability, and autobiography.

For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have conflict of interest, please see Wikipedia:Business' FAQ. For more details about what constitutes a conflict of interest, please see Wikipedia:Conflict of Interest. Thank you. Daniel Case (talk) 09:15, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

Thank you, Daniel. Fascinations represents the owners of the referenced Trademark and has made edits to ensure proper reference of the mark and other IP. Wikipedia suggests such action in lieu of other, less constructive ones. It would be inappropriate to use a pseudonym while acting to police the mark or other IP. Fascinations did not start the article and does not see Wikipedia as a tool for advertising. For a company to market a product, or a company to defame its competition, this would be a clear case of COI. For a company to act to ensure proper reference of their IP (and Wikipedia policy with regard to Trademark, Copyright and other IP), is not COI. If COI is feared, perhaps arbitration would be appropriate. Fascinations (talk) 21:00, 24 May 2008 (UTC)