Disclosure
You are a salaried employee of Halvorsen Marine Instruments. Employees have a financial conflict of interest under Wikipedia's guideline. If you are paid, or expect to be, for your Wikipedia contributions (for example as part of your communications job), that is paid editing: it must be disclosed, naming who pays you. Direct editing of the article is strongly discouraged, so everything below goes on the article's talk page as a request.
For your user page (User:KariHMI):
I am Head of Communications at Halvorsen Marine Instruments and am paid by the company. I have a financial conflict of interest with the article Halvorsen Marine Instruments. I will not edit that article directly; I will suggest changes on its talk page.
For the top of each talk page request:
Disclosure: I work for Halvorsen Marine Instruments (Head of Communications, paid employee).
Change table
| Change | Current text | Proposed text | Source you gave | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| C1 | Headquarters: Bergen, Norway | Headquarters: Stavanger, Norway | Halvorsen press release, halvorsen.example/news/hq-move, March 3, 2026 | held back: only source is your own press release |
| C2 | Number of employees: 140 (2021) | Number of employees: 210 (2026) | none (HR system) | held back: no published source |
| C3 | Key people: Ingrid Solheim (CEO) | Key people: Anders Lie (CEO) | Coastline Business Review, "Halvorsen names Anders Lie chief executive", January 14, 2026, https://coastlinereview.example/2026/01/halvorsen-new-ceo | requested |
| C4 | History, paragraph 3: the 2019 recall paragraph | (removed) | none | held back: no source, and contentious (removes negative text) |
| C5 | "Halvorsen makes echo sounders and sonar for fishing boats." | "Halvorsen makes industry-leading echo sounders and sonar trusted by fishing fleets worldwide." | none | held back: promotional wording, no source |
Held back
- C1: your press release is a source from the company itself, and editors are told to treat that kind of source with care. If a newspaper or trade outlet reported the move, send me that and I will add C1.
- C2: the number comes from your HR system, which is not a published source. A published annual report or news article could support it; whether editors accept it is their call.
- C4: removing negative text is contentious, and "it is old news and hurts sales" is not a reason editors weigh. I advise not requesting it. If you have a published source showing the recall facts are wrong, a request to correct them (not remove them) would need to be marked as contentious.
- C5: "industry-leading" and "trusted by fishing fleets worldwide" are promotional and have no source. I will not write a request for this wording.
Talk page request (draft, held)
Post on Talk:Halvorsen Marine Instruments, as a new section titled "Edit request: CEO".
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Disclosure: I work for Halvorsen Marine Instruments (Head of Communications, paid employee).
Please change "Key people: Ingrid Solheim (CEO)" to "Key people: Anders Lie (CEO)" in the infobox.
Source: Coastline Business Review, "Halvorsen names Anders Lie chief executive", January 14, 2026, https://coastlinereview.example/2026/01/halvorsen-new-ceo
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Volunteer editors review requests to the same standard as any edit and may decline. Keep one request per change; if C1 gets an independent source later, post it as its own request.
Counts
| Item | Count |
|---|---|
| Changes you asked for | 5 |
| Requested | 1 |
| Held back | 4 |
| Marked contentious | 1 |
Questions for you
- Has any newspaper or trade outlet reported the move to Stavanger?
- Is there a published source for the 210 employee count?
- Do you want to drop C4 and C5, as I advise?
Needs your decision
- Post the user page disclosure: HELD.
- Post the C3 talk page request: HELD.