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Nomination of Benno Bikes for deletion
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A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Benno Bikes is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Benno Bikes until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Velella Velella Talk 01:05, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
- Since you are new here, I think you should know that you can comment or !vote on the WP:AFD. Before you do, you might want to look at WP:GNG, WP:Before, WP:Preserve and WP:PROD, along with the pages that deal with notability of corporations. You started the article, so you might want to put in your Two cents. While the AFD process is not precisely democratic, and does not necessarily count !votes, it is a component of the decision making. So your voice could help. Cheers. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 19:31, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
April 2020
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Hello Tobeck20. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, but you have not complied with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. Paid advocacy is a category of conflict of interest (COI) editing that involves being compensated by a person, group, company or organization to use Wikipedia to promote their interests. Undisclosed paid advocacy is prohibited by our policies on neutral point of view and what Wikipedia is not, and is an especially egregious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat SEO.
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Regardless, if you are receiving or expect to receive compensation for your edits, broadly construed, you are required by the Wikimedia Terms of Use to disclose your employer, client and affiliation. You can post such a mandatory disclosure to your user page at User:Tobeck20. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Tobeck20|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}. If I am mistaken – you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits – please state that in response to this message. Otherwise, please provide the required disclosure. In either case, do not edit further until you answer this message. Praxidicae (talk) 15:35, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
- Hi, I'm new to Wikipedia and hope I do this response in the proper way. I don't receive or expect to receive any compensation for the creation of articles or edits on Wikipedia. I own an Electra bicycle and I read the article about the Electra Bicycle Company and founders here on Wikipedia. I also noticed that many other bicycle companies have Wikipedia pages, but not the venture the Electra founder started since. Since Benno Bänziger is a true visionary and designer of many innovative bicycles that are sold worldwide, I wanted to write a Wikipedia article about him (there isn't one, surprisingly), but after some citation research I started with his business venture first. I modeled the summary I wrote after other Wikipedia articles from the same bicycle category/industry. I don't know when an entrepreneur and his inventions/patents/products reach the level of Wikipedia "Notability". I'm still learning and will do my best to meet the Wikipedia guidelines.Tobeck20 (talk) 18:06, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
- Can you please explain how you became the copyright holder of this image? Praxidicae (talk) 18:09, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
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DYK for Benno Bikes
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On 4 May 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Benno Bikes, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Benno Bikes manufactures an e-bike designed to carry cargo? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Benno Bikes. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Benno Bikes), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.