User:Pigsonthewing/About self

When can someone edit the Wikipedia article about themself, or someone with whom they have a conflict of interest?

Wikipedia:Conflict of interest (a "behavioural guideline") states:

COI editing is strongly discouraged on Wikipedia. It undermines public confidence and risks causing public embarrassment to the individuals and companies being promoted.

Note that that is "strongly discouraged", not "prohibited". It also says (at WP:COISELF):

"An exception to not editing an article about yourself or someone you know is made if the article contains defamation or a serious error that needs to be corrected quickly."

At the same time, Wikipedia:Autobiography (a "content guideline"; at WP:AUTOPROB) says:

In clear-cut cases, it is permissible to edit pages connected to yourself. So, you can revert vandalism; but of course it has to be simple, obvious vandalism and not a content dispute. Similarly, you should feel free to remove obviously mistaken facts about yourself, such as marital status, current employer, place of birth, and so on."

Also, Wikipedia:FAQ/Article subjects includes:

It is generally considered okay for you to edit the article about you in certain circumstances [followed by a list of five examples] ... Disclose your conflict of interest, and if the edit is simply fixing a minor error, go ahead ... vandalistic edits are bad-faith edits intended to disrupt the encyclopedia. You can revert those edits yourself...

These are not the only places where we tell people that they can edit articles about themselves or people with whom they have a CoI.

The intro of Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard includes:

The COI guideline does not absolutely prohibit people with a connection to a subject from editing articles on that subject. Editors who have such a connection can still comply with the COI guideline by discussing proposed article changes first, or by making uncontroversial edits.

but note that the latter exception does not apply to paid editing.