User talk:Travels with Friends

Disclosure

I am a partner for Travels with Friends LLC, a tour agency providing private tours in Europe.

I am aware of, and have read Wikipedia's Conflict of Interest behavioural guidelines and the Suggestions for COI compliance - and understand how these are particularly relevant to me. I will do my best to adhere to these guidelines in the following ways:

• I will not post, or edit articles about past and current clients, their products or services

• I will not post, or edit articles about my clients' competitors, their products or services

• I will restrict requests for factual amendments to such pages to the relevant Talk pages where I will disclose my interest, and reference WP:SCOIC

• In those cases where I make such Talk page requests, I will endeavour to supply references to reliable sources

Well, thanks for stating that all. Just make sure you stick to it. :) Cheers, Master of Puppets _{Call me MoP! :D} 23:48, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

RE: How to Post

Hello MOP,

My name is Ken Diaz and I am a partner for Travels with Friends LLC, a European Tour agency based in California. You had left a message for me on my new Wiki Page - thank you for doing so. I would like to post a company bio about our business but have read that it can only be posted by 2nd party Wikipedia writers to ensure that I do not breach conflict of interest rules. Do you know this to be true? I am new to Wikipedia so I would like to make sure I follow the rules of the land. If you have any tips on how to properly post information to gain good rankings on popular search engines, I would appreciate it very much. Thanks! Ken Diaz (ken@privateshoretrips.com) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Travels with Friends (talk • contribs) 21:13, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

Well, you could post it yourself, but as you said, we discourage people who are related to the subject from writing about it as they are often biased. If you'd like, you could create the page on a sandbox (say, User:Travels with Friends/Sandbox), I could approve it, and then it could be put up. Master of Puppets _{Call me MoP! :D} 01:55, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

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