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Declaring an interest[edit]

I work in Squarespace's Editorial Department and am declaring an interest in this page (COI - Declaring An Interest). [1]. I'm here to contribute information that will improve the quality of the Squarespace page.

I am aware of Wikipedia's policies and guidelines and I will abide by them. I will preview future changes on the talk page and solicit feedback before committing any.

If you want to contact me, please leave a message on my talk page [2], or e-mail me at help@squarespace.com

Thank you! Squarespace-Editorial (talk) 22:19, 22 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

It reads a little too much like an advertisement from the company. Bubba73 ^{You talkin' to me?} 15:54, 27 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

It absolutely reads like an advertisement. FourSquare is really tiny and extremely restricted in comparison with the alternatives mentioned, and yet the article is written in a way that tries to make I sound as if it is the same league. This smacks very much of an attempt to raise the profile of a company by association. Would recommend deletion. -IP 18:20, 15 November 2014

I visited the page on a whim, and I decided to make my first ever post on Wikipedia to say that this article is a blatant advertisement and should be deleted. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:146:C904:4CE1:31C7:2C54:D3C0:D9B9 (talk) 02:09, 25 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

As far as Squarespace-Editorial's contributions go, they were terminated by Jimfbleak in October of 2013 - check it out. If you are troubled by the article's content, then fix it. Squarespace (the hosting company - not the blocked user) is notable - deletion is inappropriate. - 173.20.148.109 (talk) 06:24, 22 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

stubby[edit]

Coming to this article for the first time, it is surprisingly skimpy-stubby for such an important subject. It seems to be more about the company than about the product, which is likely to be more important to most readers. A reader who comes to this article without already being quite familiar with the general subject area (but with a very vague general understanding of the topic) is left none the wiser... It would be great if the article could have substantive content about how this company and product compares to competitors, summaries of reputable reviews, etc. Also, it is very weird that this talk page has somehow lost almost all historic content. I guess this article has a complex history, started out about a person (Krystyn_Heide), title changed at some point, talk page got blanked when that happened? Currently the top of this page proclaims:

"This page was nominated for deletion on October 1 2010. The result of the discussion was delete."

This is very confusing, although it provides a useful clue about the complex history -- could someone knowledgeable clean up this situation to make more sense to those of us not WP experts -- even though I have plenty of experience this is a new situation to me.-71.174.176.65 (talk) 15:41, 20 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Official corporate name[edit]

I tend to loathe these articles that conflate the company itself with their flagship platform or product offering.

The lead defines this article as being about the platform (primarily), while the associated the infobox concerns the company's corporate parameters. What additionally sucks about the infobox is that Squarespace's official corporate name isn't given anywhere. Squarespace itself seems to endorse this confusion: I wasn't even able to find a single mention of their legal corporate name in their terms of service contract.

However, Bloomberg begs to differ:

Company Overview of Squarespace, Inc.

Squarespace, Inc. offers consumer focused online publishing tools.

For my personal wiki, I've just invented [[category:eponymous product offering]], since it's neither software project nor corporation, the main categories that handle most of my similar pages.

I like to keep my corporate pages separate. I get less confused, even though that's how it works here, but not to advantage, IMO. — MaxEnt 01:42, 25 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

New Squarespace Draft[edit]

Hi. My name is Hayley Basnett and I work on the Communications team at Squarespace. The current page appears to be highly promotional and incomplete. For example, it contains a dedicated section for awards and a list of plugs for competitors. The history section has language like “all-in-one web publishing solution” in violation of On Wikipedia, solutions are mixtures and nothing else.

I’ve put together a much more neutral, complete, and up-to-date draft located here that I would like to propose as a replacement of the current article.

Hayley at squarespace (talk) 19:38, 13 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. On first reading, your draft feels to be unbiased. I am not sure I see the "highly promotional" in the current article. Also, what do you consider inappropriate about an awards section? -Lopifalko (talk) 08:52, 14 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Lopifalko:. I thought creating a dedicated section for awards would be considered promotional. WP:NOTDIR #7 advises against lists of information without context, though it doesn’t mention awards specifically. I defer to your judgement. Hayley at squarespace (talk) 19:22, 27 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

That may be true. I know biographies of artists best, where awards sections are the norm. -Lopifalko (talk) 19:51, 27 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I think that may be the norm for creative professionals, where awards like the Golden Globes have unmistakable significance. In contrast, awards are not ordinarily an important milestone in a company’s history.

I think I am supposed to ask a disinterested editor to merge my draft into article-space. Are you willing to do the honors? (with or without the awards section, whatever you feel is proper). Hayley at squarespace (talk) 21:47, 28 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Unfold[edit]

I read some online news about Alfonso Cobo and was surprised that he didn't have his own Wikipedia article, so I thought that it would be a good idea to create a new article about Cobo. I am even more surprised that Unfold doesn't have its own article. I'm thinking of creating a article for Unfold (app) as well. There should be enough media coverage about it to create it as a new article, rather than as a section within the existing Squarespace article. Let me know if anyone has thoughts about this. Sendero99 (talk) 04:58, 6 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

As there are no suggestions, comments, or objections so far, I will go ahead and create a new article for Unfold (app). Sendero99 (talk) 09:06, 17 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]