Pathpartner

October 2014

Hello, Pathpartner. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article PathPartner Technology, you may have a conflict of interest or close connection to the subject.

All editors are required to comply with Wikipedia's neutral point of view content policy. People who are very close to a subject often have a distorted view of it, which may cause them to inadvertently edit in ways that make the article either too flattering or too disparaging. People with a close connection to a subject are not absolutely prohibited from editing about that subject, but they need to be especially careful about ensuring their edits are verified by reliable sources and writing with as little bias as possible.

If you are very close to a subject, here are some ways you can reduce the risk of problems:

• Avoid or exercise great caution when editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with.
• Be cautious about deletion discussions. Everyone is welcome to provide information about independent sources in deletion discussions, but avoid advocating for deletion of articles about your competitors.
• Avoid linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam).
• Exercise great caution so that you do not accidentally breach Wikipedia's content policies.

Please familiarize yourself with relevant content policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, verifiability of information, and autobiographies. Note that Wikipedia's terms of use require disclosure of your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation.

For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Thank you. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 14:05, 28 October 2014 (UTC)

You may wish to consider using a Wizard to help you create articles. See the Article Wizard.

Thank you.

The article PathPartner Technology has been speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This was done because the article, which appeared to be about a real person, individual animal, organization (band, club, company, etc.), or web content, did not indicate how or why the subject is notable, that is, why an article about that subject should be included in Wikipedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not indicate the notability of the subject may be deleted at any time. If you can indicate why the subject is really notable, you are free to re-create the article, making sure to cite any verifiable sources.

Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable, and for specific types of articles, you may want to check out our criteria for biographies, for web sites, for musicians, or for companies. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 14:06, 28 October 2014 (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. Wikipedia is not a place for companies to tell the world about themselves.

If your username does not represent a group, organization or website, you may appeal this username block by adding the text {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}} below this notice.

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. JohnCD (talk) 17:18, 28 October 2014 (UTC)

• I am here to give you an answer to the question you asked me on my talk page, but before I do that, I will comment on the block. I was intending to warn you that a block might be coming because of your username, but I am too late. You need to choose another username, which doesn't give the impression that the account represents a business, rather than an individual. Personally I think it is a good idea to use a username which makes your connection to a business explicit, to prevent anyone from thinking that you are trying to hide your connection, which could give the impression of dishonest intention. You may therefore like to have some username like "John Doe at Pathpartner", but that is up to you, and you don't have to do it that way. You can follow the instructions above to ask for an unblock to request a new username, or you can just create a new account. If you do create a new account, I suggest stating on your user page or user talk page that you previously had this account, again to avoid any possible risk of anyone thinking you are trying to hide your past.

As far as re-creating the deleted article is concerned, There are various Wikipedia guidelines and policies which are likely to be relevant to you, but unfortunately there are rather a lot of them, and some of them are rather long, so the sheer quantity of information can be overwhelming to a new editor. (In my opinion Wikipedia could be made much better if we got rid of about 90% of the guidelines, policies, "essays", and what-have-you.) However, I suggest that the best thing to do is to start by looking at Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations, which covers a number of issues relating to writing articles about businesses. It also has links to other pages if you want to read in more detail about particular issues that seem relevant to your needs. I do urge you to very carefully consider the question of notability, because if a subject does not satisfy Wikipedia's notability guidelines, any article written about it is likely to be deleted, and so any time and effort put into writing it will have been wasted. As with other matters, I think hat Wikipedia's notability guidelines are far more extensive and complicated than they should be, but I think the one most likely to be worth looking at is the section of Wikipedia:Notability headed General notability guideline. The page Wikipedia:Notability (organizations and companies) is also likely to be relevant.

Please feel welcome to contact me again if you have any more questions. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 20:59, 28 October 2014 (UTC)

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The username policy is at WP:Usernames. In brief, the name you choose may be related to your real name, or not, as you choose (see WP:REALNAME for some considerations), but should not be the name of any other living person, or of any group or organizatio, A name of the form "John Doe at Pathpartner" is acceptable, and would serve to declare your affiliation.

You are still able to edit this talk page, and you should put {{unblock-un|new username|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}} at the bottom of it, for another administrator to consider. Copy it as it is written here, do not include the "tt" or "nowiki" tags you see on the edit screen

Before you do, please read carefully JamesBWatson's advice above. Wikipedia is not a business listing directory. WP:Notability in Wikipedia's sense is quite a demanding test, see WP:Notability (summary) - press releases and routine trade announcements do not count. Many perfectly worthy companies cannot pass it, which is not at all to their discredit but simply means they are not suitable subjects for a global encyclopedia. If a subject is not notable, no amount of re-editing will make it so (see WP:AMOUNT); many people waste a lot of time and energy this way.

If you decide to go ahead, read WP:Conflict of interest, and note that (a) you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's Terms of Use to declare your interest, (b) you are strongly advised not to edit directly about your company, but may submit a draft by the WP:Articles for creation route, for an uninvolved user to review.

I am sorry if all this seems very difficult, but the fact is that you want to use Wikipedia to tell the world about your company, but that is not the sort of use it is intended for. JohnCD (talk) 11:42, 30 October 2014 (UTC)