Travel Potato
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 an encyclopedia, not a business listing directory or 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) 11:13, 15 July 2015 (UTC)
Advice
editWikipedia is not here for companies to tell the world about themselves. If you write about your own company, you have from Wikipedia's point of view a WP:Conflict of interest and should read that page and the Wikipedia:Plain and simple conflict of interest guide. COI editing is discouraged, because COI editors find it hard to write from a WP:Neutral point of view. In brief, you should not edit directly about your company, but may submit a draft for review, using the Wikipedia:Articles for creation process.
The next point is that Wikipedia is selective about subjects for articles. It does not expect or want to have articles about every company that exists. The test for inclusion used is called Wikipedia:Notability, and is not a matter of opinion but has to be demonstrated by showing "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject." Significant means more than just listing-type mentions; reliable excludes Myspace, Facebook, blogs, places where anyone can post anything; independent excludes the subject's own website, affiliated ones and anything based on press releases. The test is, have people not connected with the subject thought it significant enough to write substantial comment about?
Think hard about notability. See WP:ANS for what it means. If you cannot find independent sources to establish it, you will be wasting your time and effort. If you want to go ahead,
- Register a new account which will be for you as an individual. Your username may be based on your real name, or not, as you choose (see WP:REALNAME for some considerations), but it should not be the name of any other living person, or of any group or organization. A username of the form "James at TravelPotato" would be acceptable, and would serve to declare your affiliation.
- Read WP:Your first article
- Collect your independent references
- Go to WP:Articles for creation
- When writing, think of yourself, not as writing for the organization, but as writing for Wikipedia about the organization, from outside. You are not addressing a potential customer, but a general encyclopedia reader. Bear in mind the WP:Verifiability policy: "any material challenged or likely to be challenged must be attributed to a reliable, published source", and when writing any glowing adjective, or indeed any claim, imagine a hostile critic saying "Who says? Can you prove that?" Don't talk about the organization's aims and hopes for the future, or its mission statement, but about what is has achieved. No opinions, only facts, neutrally stated and cited to reliable sources. Write in your own words, without copying from the website. If what you write is promotional, or tries to "sell" the company, it will not be accepted.
- When finished, do not choose the option to post the article directly, but send it for review by an uninvolved user.