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=== Supplying photographs and media files ===
Editors with a COI are encouraged to upload high-quality media files that are appropriately licensed for Wikipedia and that improve our coverage of a subject. For more information, follow the [[:commons:Commons:Welcome|instructions at Commons]]. In some cases, the addition of media files to an article may be an uncontroversial edit that editors with a COI can make directly, but editors should exercise discretion and rely on talk pages when images may be controversial or promotional. If the addition of an image is challenged by another editor, it is not uncontroversial.
== How to handle conflicts of interest ==
If an editor has [[WP:DCOI|disclosed]] that s/he is editing with a COI, or edits in a way that leads you to believe they ''might'' have a COI, raise the issue in a civil manner on the editor's talk page, which is always the first step in resolving user conduct issues per the [[Wikipedia:Dispute_resolution#Resolving_user_conduct_disputes|DR policy]], citing this guideline, or open a thread on [[WP:COIN]]. Avoid making disparaging comments about the subject of the article, its author, or the author's motives.
If there has been no COI disclosure, consider first whether the issue may be simple [[WP:ADVOCACY|advocacy]]. This should also be first addressed at the user's talk page; the appropriate follow-on forum for concerns about advocacy is [[WP:NPOVN]]. The appropriate forum for concerns about sources is [[WP:RSN]]. If there are concerns about [[Wikipedia:Sock puppetry|sockpuppets]] or [[Wikipedia:Sock puppetry#Meatpuppetry|meatpuppets]], please bring that concern to [[WP:SPI]].
=== Avoid outing ===
{{further|Wikipedia:Harassment#Posting of personal information|Wikipedia:Wikimedia Foundation statement on paid editing and outing}}
When investigating COI editing, the [[WP:HARASS|policy against harassment]] takes precedence. It requires that Wikipedians [[WP:OUTING|not reveal the identity of editors]] against their wishes. Instead, examine editors' behavior and refer if necessary to [[Wikipedia:Checkuser]]. Do not ask a user if they ''are'' somebody; instead one can ask if they have an undisclosed connection to that person. If revealing private information is needed to resolve COI editing, and if the issue is serious enough to warrant it, editors can seek the advice of [[WP:FUNCTIONARY|functionaries]] or the [[WP:ARBCOM|arbitration committee]] by email.
=== Dealing with single-purpose accounts ===
{{further|Wikipedia:Blocking policy#Disruption-only|Wikipedia:Single-purpose account}}
Accounts that appear to be [[WP:SPA|single-purpose]], existing for the sole or primary purpose of promotion or denigration of a person, company, product, service, website, organization, etc., and whose postings are in apparent violation of this guideline, should be made aware of this guideline and warned not to continue their problematic editing. If the same pattern of editing continues after the warning, the account may be blocked.
=== Templates ===
Relevant article talk pages may be tagged with {{tlx|connected contributor}} or {{tlx|connected contributor (paid)}}. The article itself may be tagged with {{tlx|COI}}. A section of an article can be tagged with {{tlx|COI|section}}
Other templates include:
* {{tlx|uw-coi}} (to be placed on user Talk pages to warn editors that they may have a conflict of interest)
* {{tlx|uw-coi-username}} (another Talk page warning, this one for editors whose username appears to violate the [[WP:Usernames]] policy)
* {{tlx|COI editnotice}} (this template goes on article talk pages and gives instructions to COI editors on how to submit edit requests to the article)
* {{tlx|UserboxCOI}} (for users to self-declare on their own Userpages those articles with which they have a conflict of interest, one such template per article)
== थप जानकारी ==
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