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COI edit

Thanks for message. Your two attempts at articles relate to two companies which are linked to each other. You seem likely to have a conflict of interest and you must declare it. If you work directly or indirectly for an organisation, or otherwise are acting on its behalf, you are very strongly discouraged from attempting to write an article at all. If you are paid directly or indirectly by the organisation you are writing about, you are required by the Wikimedia Terms of Use to disclose your employer, client and affiliation. You can post such a mandatory disclosure to your user page at User:Monumentel. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Monumentel|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}. If you are being compensated, please provide the required disclosure. Note that editing with a COI is discouraged, but permitted as long as it is declared. Concealing a COI can lead to a block. Please do not edit further until you respond to this message.

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Your sources for info about the company include the company's website, interviews with the company, and data posted by the company or taken from its website (see Owler, Forbes).
Having celebrity guests doesn't make it notable, notability isn't transferable..
Your text says 2500 employees, but one of your supposed reliable sources says 351
  • you must write in a non-promotional tone. Articles must be neutral and encyclopaedic. Yours was a slaes pitch with weasel words like "offering" when you mean "selling". Unsourced or self-sourced claims presented as fact include offering... luxury vacations... over 55 offices in more than 30 countries... numerous celebrities... A&K pioneered travel by private jet... the first to feature the Concorde
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The deleted text is pretty valueless without proper sources and with a misunderstanding of what notability is. The infobox is the only thing worth keeping, code follows if you decide to recreate following the instructions above

{{company stub}} {{Infobox company | name = Abercrombie & Kent Group of Companies S.A. | logo = | type = [[Private company]] | key_people = [[Geoffrey Kent]] (CEO) | industry = [[Travel agency]] | founded = {{Start date and age|1962}} | founder = Geoffrey Kent | hq_location_city = [[Chicago]] | hq_location_country = United States | num_employees = 2500<ref name="history"/> | num_employees_year = 2019 | parent = | revenue = {{gain}}[[United States dollar|$]]30.7 million (2018)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.owler.com/company/abercrombiekent|title=Abercrombie & Kent's Competitors, Revenue, Number of Employees, Funding and Acquisitions|publisher=Owler}}</ref> | website = {{URL|abercrombiekent.com}} }} '''Abercrombie & Kent''' is an [[United States|American]] [[multinational]] travel company

Jimfbleak - talk to me? 06:59, 31 January 2019 (UTC)Reply

Yea thanks, but I don't think I'll bother creating the Abercrombie & Kent article again. Nevermind. And regarding the bit about the celebrities, I just grabbed that info from wikipedia itself. Perhaps you care to delete it from Geoffrey Kent as well? Oh never mind someone deleted it already. Monumentel (talk) 08:42, 31 January 2019 (UTC)Reply

Speedy deletion declined: OpenSync (software) edit

I noticed that you tagged the page OpenSync (software) for speedy deletion with the reason "notability". However, "notability" is not currently one of our criteria for speedy deletion, so I have removed the speedy deletion tag. You can propose the page for deletion if it appears to be an uncontroversial matter, or take the page to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion for discussion on the merits if you still seek deletion. Thanks! IffyChat -- 15:10, 5 February 2019 (UTC)Reply