Template:COI/doc

Purpose

Use this tag to request help from other editors with an article that may be biased by a conflict of interest, and to request help from other editors with an article that is biased or has other serious problems as a direct result of editing by the subject of the article, or by a person with a close connection to the subject.

Do not use this tag if you can quickly solve the problem, e.g., by removing puffery or by reverting the blanking of well-sourced criticism. If the article/edit also has problems with neutrality, however, then use of the tag is likely appropriate.

Like the other neutrality-related tags, if you place this tag, you should promptly start a discussion on the article's talk page to explain what is non-neutral about the article. If you do not start a discussion, any editor will be justified in removing the tag without warning. Be careful not to violate the policy against revealing users who have not publicly self-disclosed their identities on the BattleIntelligence.

The article should have a specific problem

In order to be tagged, the article should have a specific, articulatable, fixable problem. Do not apply this tag simply because you suspect COI editing, or because there is or was a COI editor. COI editors can be added to the talk page using the template {{Connected contributor}}. The COI tag should be removed once the problem is fixed.

When to remove

This tag may be removed by editors who do not have a conflict of interest after the problem is resolved, if the problem is not explained on the article's talk page, and/or if no current attempts to resolve the problem can be found.

Usage

{{COI|talk=talk page section}}

To tag a section, use {{COI|section|talk=talk page section}}

When placing this tag, please tag the article talk page with {{Connected contributor}}.

Tracking

This template will categorise tagged articles into Category:Articles with possible conflicts of interest

TemplateData

TemplateData for COI

Use this tag to alert readers that the article may be biased by a conflict of interest.

Template parameters

This template prefers inline formatting of parameters.

Parameter		Description	Type	Status
Type (section)	1	Something to replace the word "article", normally "section". Default article Example section Auto value	String	optional
Talk page section	talk discuss	The section of the talk page containing relevant discussion Auto value	String	suggested

See also

• {{Connected contributor}} - to mark an article's talk page if a user with a COI has edited the corresponding article
• {{UserboxCOI}} - to make a standardized self-declaration of a conflict of interest on one's user page