Fundamentals

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• What is conflict of interest editing on Wikipedia?

  Conflict-of-interest (COI) editing is editing a Wikipedia article in which the editor has a financial or personal interest in the subject. Wikipedia requires disclosure of paid relationships and steers COI editors away from direct edits, toward proposing changes on the article's Talk page.

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• What are Wikipedia’s notability guidelines?

  Notability requires significant coverage in reliable, independent secondary sources. For companies and people, that means substantive press in authoritative outlets, not press releases or self-published material.

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• How does Wikipedia’s editorial process actually work?

  Wikipedia's editorial process is community-driven: anyone with an account can propose a change by editing directly or posting a Talk-page edit request, and consensus is worked out through Talk-page discussion. When editors cannot agree, the dispute escalates - from the Talk page to content noticeboards like the Dispute Resolution Noticeboard, to the administrators' incidents noticeboard (ANI) for conduct, and ultimately to the Arbitration Committee for the most entrenched cases - with notability, NPOV, BLP, and reliable-sourcing policies governing what is allowed throughout.

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