Mrtompaye

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Some style help

Hi there and welcome to Wikipedia. I hope you enjoy your time here and find it as fun as useful to contribute. I noticed in your article Compareit4me that you probably accidentally undid some style fixes I did. Normally, the name of the article is repeated in the first line and bolded. There are also some guidelines with regards to marketing and advertising on Wikipedia. As to not raise the concern that the article may be advertising, the product or company is not usually liked to their external website in the first line. Maybe look at the article for Moneysupermarket.com for guidance. Maybe also refer to the corresponding guidelines: Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Lead_section#Format_of_the_first_sentence and Wikipedia:What_Wikipedia_is_not#Wikipedia_is_not_a_soapbox_or_means_of_promotion. Welcome again. Jake Brockman (talk) 11:29, 23 February 2017 (UTC)

Hi Jake, thanks very much, and noted on the points raised above. I hadn't realised that I'd undone the changes you made - there was an edit conflict and I'd tried to merge the two but obviously made a hash of it! Have you re-applied the change now? Thanks again, looking forward to being a contributor! Mrtompaye (talk) 11:48, 23 February 2017 (UTC)

Editing Wikipedia

Hello, thanks for joining Wikipedia! I notice that all your edits are on the topics of Compareit4me, and I wonder if you have some connection, or "conflict of interest" with them, such as that you are an employee or contractor or being paid for editing Wikipedia to market them.

This isn't necessarily a problem, but if this is so, you must immediately file a disclosure statement explaining any conflict of interest to ensure transparency. Here's an example of what a disclosure looks like - but let me know if you have any kind of questions about this, privately by email is fine if you’re having problems. You should also ensure that all your edits are factual and cannot be considered in any way promotional, and are backed up by citations to reliable sources demonstrating them to be true. An automated message explaining this is added below. Hope this is OK, let me know if you have any thoughts or questions. Blythwood (talk) 19:02, 26 February 2017 (UTC)

Hello, Mrtompaye. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places, or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic, and it is important when editing Wikipedia articles that such connections be completely transparent. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. In particular, we ask that you please:

• avoid editing or creating articles related to you and your family, friends, school, company, club, or organization, as well as any competing companies' projects or products;
• instead, you are encouraged to propose changes on the Talk pages of affected article(s) (see the {{request edit}} template);
• when discussing affected articles, disclose your COI (see WP:DISCLOSE);
• avoid linking to the Wikipedia article or to the website of your organization in other articles (see WP:SPAM);
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In addition, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID).

Please take a few moments to read and review Wikipedia's policies regarding conflicts of interest, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, sourcing and autobiographies. Thank you.

Speedy deletion nomination of Compareit4me

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A tag has been placed on Compareit4me, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations for more information.

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Reply

Hello Mr. Paye. You should, and I think do, know that Wikipedia asks editors to not write about their employer, since the results are rarely in accordance with our values. By trying to advertise your company on here, especially without filing a disclosure statement, you were in violation of section 4 of Wikimedia’s terms of service and took the consequences upon yourself.

I’m not going to engage in a line-by-line discussion of your article, it’s gone now and I can't read it. But it seemed to be the standard our-incredible-journey format in which most new dotcom companies seem to write about themselves. I wasn’t the only person to reach this conclusion, just the first person willing to bite the bullet and say it. The article was deleted within two hours of my proposing it - that doesn't sound like a tough call.

If, after filing a disclosure statement, you would like to retry submitting an article, I recommend that you do not post it live. Instead, use the articles for creation process where it can be examined and discussed so that consensus can be reached on its acceptability before being posted. I suggest also that you keep it basic and factual so that it cannot be considered promotional - I would set yourself a limit of six sentences, and focus above all on in-depth coverage of your company in major sources, if necessary waiting a few years until this coverage is available. Blythwood (talk) 19:32, 27 February 2017 (UTC)