FindingSpecies

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Hello, FindingSpecies, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited was Finding Species, which appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article. Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

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Your username

...is unacceptable, because Wikipedia accounts are for individuals only, who are personally responsible for them, and accounts whose names are the names of companies or groups are not permitted. Please make a request at WP:Changing username a soon as possible. Your username may be based on your real name, or not, as you choose (see WP:REALNAME for some considerations), but it should not be the name of any other living person or of any group or organization. A username of the form "Andrew at FindingSpecies" would be acceptable, and would serve to declare your affiliation. JohnCD (talk) 17:54, 2 March 2015 (UTC)

so as far as publishing a page for this non profit company and giving sections to the history, missions, programs, etc would that be accepted with no issues?

No, there are certainly issues, and you would have to be very careful. Wikipedia is not for any kind of promotion, and is not a place for companies to "tell the world" about themselves. From our point of view, in respect of FS you have a Wikipedia:Conflict of interest, and should carefully read that guideline and the Wikipedia:Plain and simple conflict of interest guide. In brief, you should not edit directly on anything to do with your company, its products or its competitors, but may make suggestions or submit drafts. Note that you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's Terms of Use ("Paid contributions without disclosure" under section 4) and in some jurisdictions by laws against covert advertising to disclose your interest in any edits where you have a COI.

If you want to submit a draft about your company, it should not be the story the company wants to tell, addressed to potential customers or investors, but rather what a general encyclopedia reader might like to know. It will need a WP:Neutral point of view - anything promotional will not be accepted, and Wikipedia has a much more austere view of what is promotional than most company PR people.

For advice about how to proceed, see User:JohnCD/Advice. JohnCD (talk) 18:11, 2 March 2015 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia. Because we have a policy against usernames which give the impression that the account represents a group, organization or website, I have blocked this account; please take a moment to create a new account with a username that represents only yourself as an individual and which complies with our username policy.

You should also read our conflict of interest guideline and be aware that promotional editing is not acceptable regardless of the username you choose.

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You may simply create a new account, but you may prefer to change your username to one that complies with our username policy, so that your past contributions are associated with your new username. If you would prefer to change your username, you may appeal this username block by adding the text {{unblock-un|new username|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}} below this notice. Thank you. -- Ed (Edgar181) 18:13, 2 March 2015 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Finding Species

Hello FindingSpecies,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Finding Species for deletion, because the article doesn't clearly say why the subject is important enough to be included in an encyclopedia.

If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to work on it, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. Snabbkaffe (talk) 19:30, 2 March 2015 (UTC)