Relentless Bill

April 2008

If you have a close connection to some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article William R. Robinson ("Relentless Bill"), you may have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, edits where there is a conflict of interest, or where such a conflict might reasonably be inferred from the tone of the edit and the proximity of the editor to the subject, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:

1. editing articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with;
2. participating in deletion discussions about articles related to your organization or its competitors;
3. linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam);

   and you must always:

4. avoid breaching relevant policies and guidelines, especially neutral point of view, verifiability, and autobiography.

For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have conflict of interest, please see Wikipedia:Business' FAQ. For more details about what constitutes a conflict of interest, please see Wikipedia:Conflict of Interest. Thank you. Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 19:52, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

RE: Your Help?

Greetings,

Apologies for my delayed response time, and for any personal offense I may have caused with my original comments on the article William R. Robinson. I first encountered the article back in 2008 while evaluating newly created and/or suspicious articles. Evaluation of such articles is an important task because, as you probably know, there is a constant stream of new articles that are utterly un-encyclopedic, ranging from harmless nonsense to malicious falsehoods. Wikipedia has numerous guidelines which are intended to produce a high level of information quality, and these are used to evaluate article quality.

Here are the main problems with the article in question, and the relevant Wikipedia guidelines:

• The article appears to be a means of self-promotion, a sort of personal advertisement. Evidence for this:
  • The article is written like an advertisement; the writing is informal and un-encyclopedic. Your background ("Relentless Marketing") suggests that you're simply using Wikipedia as a marketing tool. WP:NOTADVERTISING, WP:PROMOTION
  • The article was apparently written largely by you and/or someone close to you. WP:CONFLICT
• The article includes a great deal of information that is unrelated to the subject's notibility WP:NPF

My main suggestion is that you don't edit articles about yourself. While it's not strictly against WP guidelines, it does call into question the validity of the information being presented. If you must write articles about yourself, try to be as objective as possible; Wikipedia isn't a place for individuals to market themselves.

Cheers, Fuzzform (talk) 19:55, 30 October 2010 (UTC)

I've edited the article extensively. Writing style and tone are now suitable for an encyclopedia. I've also removed some of the irrelevant info that made the article questionable in the first place. Fuzzform (talk) 21:41, 30 October 2010 (UTC)