Sharon Munro at Kennards Self Storage

Help me!

Please help me with adding a company page to Wikipedia. We would like to add Kennards Self Storage. I am not sure, when reading literature about a Wiki page, whether it is a 'conflict of interest'? We note that we have seen other Storage company pages on Wiki. We would like to do the same for Kennards Self Storage. We feel there is history about Kennards Self Storage and would like to share this. In previous years we did try to make a wiki page but it was not approved. We would now like to try again. We do have a Wiki account under Kennards Self Storage. Thank you.

Kennards Self Storage (talk) 06:05, 29 April 2019 (UTC)Sharon MunroKennards Self Storage (talk) 06:05, 29 April 2019 (UTC)

I would like to help you with the creation of article. To help me help you, please accomplish these two steps.

1) Rename your account please -- accounts here belong to an individual and not a company, and the username should reflect this.

2) Please link me URLs to include as sources for the article. This is the first step for article creation, and I will share feedback.

Thanks, Gryllida (talk) 06:38, 29 April 2019 (UTC)

Some additional comments: Firstly, as Gryllida said, Wikipedia does not allow shared or "company" accounts. Your use of "we" when referring to yourself suggests that this account is shared. Please confirm that that's not the case; if necessary change the password. Only one person may have access to an account, ever, no one else - not your coworkers, not your boss, not friends or family. If you want your Wikipedia username to be associated with your company, a username such as "Sharon Munro at Kennards Self Storage" would be acceptable.

Secondly, your previous account, User:Kennards, was blocked from editing both for the username and the promotional content of your past edits. See User talk:Kennards for details. For now I haven't blocked this account, but what you're doing here comes very close to block evasion, and other admins might disagree with me on whether a block is warranted.

Writing about your company indeed is a conflict of interest. Please also review the disclosure requirements for paid editors and make sure you comply with them.

As Gryllida indicated, Wikipedia content should be a neutral summary of what reliable third-party sources have reported about a topic. A Google News search didn't show much except some (mis)use of Kennards storage lockers to store arms caches and the likes of this piece. See the notability guideline at WP:CORP, particularly the part about significant coverage. Huon (talk) 07:44, 29 April 2019 (UTC)

Kennards Self Storage, are you still interested in this? If so, please reply. Gryllida (talk) 21:22, 29 April 2019 (UTC)

Note: you may click HERE to reply. Gryllida (talk) 21:23, 29 April 2019 (UTC)

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Thanks Gryllida,

Thats very helpful. I will do as you have suggested and put the account in my name. The use of 'we' was merely a figure of speech, no one else has access to this account accept me.

Can i ask what you mean by this - "Please link me URLs to include as sources for the article. This is the first step for article creation, and I will share feedback." Do you mean a URL to the Kennards Self Storage web site or another URL to a source that mentions Knenards?

Once I have made these changes and you have looked at them, am i able to create the page or should I ask you about for further help regarding the content as well? I note your comments about third party sources.

Thank you.

Kennards Self Storage (talk) 22:43, 29 April 2019 (UTC)

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Hi Gryllida,

As mentioned I am unclear as to the URL sources you may be wanting so here are a few. Please let me know your thoughts.

https://www.kss.com.au/ https://www.kennards.co.nz/ https://www.footpathlibrary.org/about/corporate-supporters/ https://www.mercyfoundation.com.au/ http://mrnetwork.com.au/friends.html https://hornsby.nsw.lions.org.au/sponsors https://onevoice.org.au/ https://www.kss.com.au/blog/helping-heart-kindness-catching-6641 Kennards Self Storage (talk) 23:21, 29 April 2019 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Draft:Kennards Self Storage

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A tag has been placed on Draft:Kennards Self Storage, 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, group, product, service, person, or point of view 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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Your username

False positive message removed by author 94rain ^Talk 03:16, 15 May 2019 (UTC)

@Sharon Munro at Kennards Self Storage: Please disregard the above notice. It was left in error.

@94rain: This user's account name is acceptable under this provision of WP:ISU:

However, usernames are acceptable if they contain a company or group name but are clearly intended to denote an individual person, such as "Mark at WidgetsUSA", "Jack Smith at the XY Foundation", "WidgetFan87", etc. --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 14:32, 15 May 2019 (UTC)

Hi, Sharon Munro. I am sorry for having sent the wrong notice. (Just looking at your sign above made me send it) For the sources you mentioned above, some of them seem to come from your company and they cannot show the notability of Kennards Self Storage.

“ If a topic has received significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject, it is presumed to be suitable for a Wikipedia article. ” — General notability guideline of Wikipedia. Click here for more information

You can try to find some secondary sources from Google News, which should introduce Kennards Self Storage directly and in detail.
Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL
You can also take a look at Wikipedia:Writing better articles#Tone and try to adhere to neutral point of view. After reading that section, please be bold to create Draft:Kennards Self Storage again. -- 94rain ^Talk 15:26, 15 May 2019 (UTC)

Paid editing disclosure

Hello Sharon. Although you have disclosed an affiliation with the company with the {{UserboxCOI}} template, it is not quite enough. If you are paid by the company, then you fall under the category of a paid editor, which requires a mandatory higher level of disclosure. The full policy is at Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure.

Please use the {{paid}} template to indicate that you are being paid by Kennards Self Storage to edit Wikipedia. Thank you. --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 15:44, 15 May 2019 (UTC)

Hi, (paid editing disclosure moved to userpage --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 03:55, 16 May 2019 (UTC)) I am also trying to find out why the page I creeted yesterday was deleted, which parts of the page caused it to be deleted? I was told it sounded too much like an auto biography and advertising fro the company. But i am unclear as to what sections this was? I have been looking at another Wiki page for another storage company and the page i was trying to create was not to different to that, so I wonder why it was taken down? Thanks.

Sharon Munro at Kennards Self Storage (talk) 02:20, 16 May 2019 (UTC)

Sorry i should also mention that the other storage companys wiki page was published. Sharon Munro at Kennards Self Storage (talk) 02:23, 16 May 2019 (UTC)

• Which article did you look at? It might have some problems in terms of Wikipedia:Writing better articles#Tone and WP:Point of view. Or, did you list a range of products of your company or provide too many links from your company websites? --94rain ^Talk 02:47, 16 May 2019 (UTC)

Its the one for National Storage that has been published and Kennards Self Storage simply want to do the same sort of thing. Within the article i was trying to create for Kennards Self Storage that was deleted there were no links to our company web site at all. Thanks.

Sharon Munro at Kennards Self Storage (talk) 03:00, 16 May 2019 (UTC)

Concern regarding Draft:Kennards Self Storage

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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 23:00, 13 February 2023 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:Kennards Self Storage

Hello, Sharon Munro at Kennards Self Storage. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Kennards Self Storage".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been deleted. When you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 23:03, 13 August 2023 (UTC)