Talk:Remitly

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Remitly should not have been deleted[edit]

I was not aware of the AfD when it had taken place, and was horrified to see that a highly notable remittance was deleted like this without any consultations with specialists. To remittance specialists, this is the equivalent of Venmo being deleted by someone who only knows about PayPal. While I appreciate DGG's hard work cleaning up spam, Remitly is not one of them. It's highly frustrating for specialists like me who study and compare how developing countries receive funds from individuals and SMEs in other countries.

This is a very well known service for people in North America who frequently transfer funds to Latin America, Asia, and Africa.

  • "Money Transfer Startups: race against time?". Save on Send. August 29, 2019. Retrieved October 10, 2019.

And just in case you're wondering I have absolutely no connection to any online remittance companies. There is zero COI involved on my part. I study how international remittances affect developing countries, and am looking at this from an economics geek's perspective.

Hence, I will be recreating this article soon. Please note that I have created other remittance company articles before, and have absolutely no connection with the original article creator. If there are any objections, please discuss here.

MSteinburg (talk) 14:15, 30 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

See Draft:Remitly to help out improving it for moving to mainspace Pieceofmetalwork (talk) 09:55, 10 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Finished. I was quite busy in real and didn't have time to review this, but now I've just found a bit of time to review Draft:Remitly (please see the page history of the draft for full attribution). It's on par with WorldRemit in terms of popularity and is certainly notable, and is one of the few ways to send money electronically from North America to many smaller African countries (I personally do research on how money typically flows from developed to lesser-known developing countries for everyday people, hence my interest in this field). The draft looked mostly fine, but I cut out promotional buzzwords and made it more suitable for Wikipedia. Also I have doubts about it being used that often by immigrants, since many of these remittance services are also used a lot by regular businesses and companies. MSteinburg (talk) 20:26, 22 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
user:MSteinburg, thank you very much for rescuing my draft from deletion and creating the Remitly page. I was hoping, if not exactly holding my breath, that someone with finance expertise might be able to help out. I think the changes you've made to my proposed language are more than fair, and appreciate that you've given everything in the draft a close inspection. Thanks again! JM at Remitly (talk) 16:18, 28 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
user:JM at Remitly And thank you for contributing to Wikipedia as a responsible, ethical representative of Remitly who carefully follows all the correct Wikipedia procedures! MSteinburg (talk) 22:58, 18 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Minor infobox edit request[edit]

Hey there! I'm back to make a minor request: can someone change the "Traded as" infobox field to reflect that Remitly is listed as RELY on the Nasdaq exchange, not AIM? I'll add a citation here[1], just to be thorough.

References

  1. ^ "Remitly Global, Inc". Nasdaq.com. May 16, 2022. Retrieved May 16, 2022.

Because I work for Remitly and have a conflict of interest, I won’t be making direct edits to the article. user:MSteinburg, you might be interested in making this fix, but obviously anybody else without a conflict of interest is welcome to help out. Thanks! JM at Remitly (talk) 16:22, 17 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@JM at Remitly: All done! MSteinburg (talk) 22:56, 18 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
 Done Closing as edit has been made. PK650 (talk) 05:26, 19 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the infobox update! I saw that User:PK650 added a tag to the page querying Remitly's notability, and I'm confused because I thought this had been reviewed and resolved before. User:MSteinburg can you weigh in on this? Thanks! JM at Remitly (talk) 16:48, 20 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
It hasn't, as far as I'm aware. It was already deleted 2 years ago, and I don't see much in the way of quality sourcing either. We'll see what other curators think, as the page is currently awaiting review. PK650 (talk) 04:01, 21 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I'm still slightly puzzled, User:PK650. In MSteinburg's note on creating this article, they firmly argued for Remitly's notability, reviewed the sources, cleaned up some of the language I proposed. I know it's just one editor's opinion, but I thought I would point it out. Thanks! JM at Remitly (talk) 19:20, 24 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Request to delete Applied security section[edit]

Hey there, Wikipedia editors. I'm taking over outreach on behalf of Remitly for User:JM at Remitly. I noticed that a freshly created Wikipedia editor account, User:Rubengrcgrc, recently added an entirely new section called Applied security to this article. The information in this section is mostly accurate, but the cited source is a sketchy financial site called FinanceGrowZone. Given this context, would it make sense to delete this section? I didn't feel comfortable doing so myself since I work for Remitly and have a conflict of interest. Tagging User:MSteinburg since you've helped with previous requests. Thank you! Tatianajatremitly (talk) 16:36, 9 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

 Done yesterday by Sargdub. ARandomName123 (talk)Ping me! 13:08, 23 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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