Robert.Wace
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Business FAQ edit
Hi Robert
I'd like to preemptively make you aware of our Business FAQ. I noticed you started an article on your company, accidentally in the wrong place, which you undid yourself. If the text had been added as an article however that it would have been promptly deleted, since it was purely promotional and didn't say why the company might be notable for encyclopaedic inclusion.
If you have questions, feel free to ask.
Cheers, Amalthea 11:49, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
- Hi Amalthea,
- Thank you for getting in touch, I'd really like to have a short page on Wikipedia about the company 'Mocean', please can you advise me on how I could achieve this without it being deemed promotional? We are unique in that we use primarily natural and recycled materials to make our products, and we support environmental charities. Will it just be the case of waiting until we are as big as Rip Curl before we can write anything about our company - even it is purely fact based - or is there a way we could have some basic information up here regarding what we do?
- Best regards,
- Robert —Preceding unsigned comment added by Robert.Wace (talk • contribs) 12:45, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
- To quote from the FAQ:
- "Wikipedia has inclusion standards for organizations and companies: see Wikipedia:Notability (organizations and companies). The basic requirement is that multiple independent sources must have written non-trivial amounts of information about a company before a Wikipedia article on that company is appropriate." (see WP:BFAQ#WHY)
- From a glance, I couldn't find anything via google about your company, so at this point I don't see that it passes this inclusion guideline. Do you know any newspaper articles or the like that cover it in-depth?
Amalthea 13:00, 20 April 2009 (UTC)